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Museum Musings

Musings on working in Museums around the world

Victory of Samothrace

Deedee Blog, Exhibitions and Events, Figures, Inspiration, Museum Drawings, Museum Musings 11th March 201522nd December 2015 1 Comment

IMG_5061The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike. She is one of the most beautiful statues at the Louvre, and one of their most famous. Read more

Museum Drawings

Support Blog, Museum Drawings, Museum Musings 9th March 201525th March 2015
Museum Drawings

You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 -1867)

I draw in museums, studying master works, sometimes over days, to try and absorb and learn what is being revealed to me. This traditional has a venerable history.

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Inspiration from life

To explore, question and absorb, to perceive what nature is showing us and to translate this using the intellect and emotion.

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