The Cogitations Of READ

Sketching, sketching, one, two, three...

An Eye For Optical Theory

Dear Reader(s), I have lately been absent a great deal, but with good cause as I hope ye will see. Having left down my pencil for many, many long years, I have been DRAWN to rekindle my muse, to prove to those that would condemn me to ETERNAL OBSCURITY that I am indeed an ARTIST of some note!

To this end I have fashion'd a sketch of Miss Tamsin EGERTON, an actress, the progress of which is chart'd below...

God, this is taking bloody AGEs....

Neglect'd Artists Club - Jose WEISS

Another helping of neglect'd Art from a Gentleman somewhat forgotten these days, Joseph Vincent Nicholas Francis WEISS (1859-1919), or Jose to his friends. Born in Paris,

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Neglect'd Artists Club - James DICKSON INNES

The first Rule of 'Neglect'd Artists Club' is, of course, BANG ON RELENTLESSLY about 'Neglect'd Artists Club' - I imagine ye are all quite well aware of what the second might be, but, in a slight break with Tradition, I have decid'd to put on a little viewing of ANOTHER poor wretch whose talent has for too long lain forgotten in the dingy bowels of our Galleries & Institutions -

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Look to the Skies

Among th'INFINITe GLORIEs of Nature, there is surely one Phenomena above all others which, tho' ever-present & oft o'erlook'd, truly deserves the mantle of the most BEAUTEOUS & SUBLIMe form - 

The humble Cloud.

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A Rogue's Gallery

We are all familiar with the many famous and masterful examples of this genre, but here I have assembl'd, I hope, a rather more Eclectic Gallery, th'artists bound together purely by my own Personal Admiration of their Individual Excellence.... I hope ye will find something to your liking.

'Self-Portrait at 13' 1484 Silver point on paper

Albrecht DURER - Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

'Self-Portrait' c.1828 Black & white chalks on buff paper

Samuel PALMER (1805-81) - British Museum

'Self-Portrait: The Desperate Man' 1843 Oil on canvas

Gustave COURBET (1819-77) - Metropolitan Museum of Art

'Self-Portrait' 1845-6 Pencil & black chalk on grey-blue paper

Jean-Francois MILLET (1814-75) The Louvre

'Self-Portrait with cigarette' 1895 Oil on canvas

Edvard MUNCH (1863-1944) - National Gallery, Oslo

'Self-Portrait' 1899-1900 Charcoal on paper

Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) - Museu Picasso, Barcelona

'Self-Portrait' 1902 Oil on canvas

Giacomo BALLA (1871-1958) - Banca d'Italia, Rome

'Self-Portrait in the Bugatti' 1929 Oil on canvas

Tamara de LEMPICKA (1898-1980) 

'Self-Portrait' 1959 Oil on canvas

Sir Stanley SPENCER (1891-1959) - Tate Gallery

A Little Knowledge is an Expensive Thing

As ye might possibly have gather'd, I have made it my avow'd Intention in this curious SECOND INCARNATION to bring to an Unknowing Public the TRUe STORY of my former existence, and to dispel once and for all the CHILLING NEGLECT which has so long beset my Reputation. To this end I have resolv'd to gather as much of my Ephemera as is still extant today, the better to recall and recount my doings, both artistic and personal. 

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A Stroke of Luck!

Good Gracious! 'Twould appear a few trifling bits & pieces of my Archive may have 'fallen' down th'back of the Dresser, and NOT found their way into th'Collection of th'August Institution. Dear Me! What a FORTUITOUS 'ACCIDENT'!

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A Frabjous Journey

Ah! Dear Readers! My humble apologies for th'Dearth of Scrivenings of late, but much has been afoot, and thus have I been sorely DISTRACT'd! Allow me now to seek yr. Forgiveness with this timely and exhaustive Review of mine ANNUS.

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The Cup of our Degradation was nearly full...

Water's Meadow, Stratford-sub-Castle - D.C. Read 1844

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