Alessia Stokes
"Those lying eyes..."
Most will recognise Vermeer's, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", but is there actually a pearl earring there? Despite what your eyes tell you,...
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Alessia Stokes
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
Colouring a little further outside the lines...
"Creativity involves breaking out of the established patterns on order to look at things in a different way." So stated the father of the...
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Alessia Stokes
- Mar 22, 2021
- 5 min
Saint? Sinner? Object? Woman?
(Disclaimer - This blog mentions abuse of women as represented in art history. It may be triggering to some) My final art practical of my...
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Alessia Stokes
- Mar 15, 2021
- 5 min
Just some 17th century Bakelite...
Dutch 17th century painter, Johannes Vermeer and your granny's vintage telephone are more closely linked than you might have imagined. A...
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Alessia Stokes
- Mar 8, 2021
- 4 min
"Beware of the body snatchers!"
"Resurrectionists" as they were commonly called, were enterprising people who realised the value of the dead to 18th century anatomists,...
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Alessia Stokes
- Mar 1, 2021
- 4 min
"The missing link...we will just cut and paste it!"
Japan in the 1000s, Victorians in the 1800s, Modernists of the 1900s, and well, (we don't seem to have a name for our period in...
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Alessia Stokes
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
Jackson Pollock and the Ferrari...
What may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, is in fact based on a strong belief in a connection between the famous abstract...
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Alessia Stokes
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
"That's not art!"
A friend sent me this image via Facebook. In four frames, Emily, aka "Slaughterkeys" (her user name on Tumblr and Instagram), has with...
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Alessia Stokes
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
"Half a brain is better than none: A whole brain would be better."
"Drawing is a curious process, so intertwined with seeing that the two can hardly be separated...While nearly everyone learns to ride a...
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Alessia Stokes
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Anyone can be creative! Seriously!
I know so many who say "I am not creative; there is no way I could do that!". The truth is that everyone has creative skills. Yes, some...
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