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Master John Lockman who was appointed Master in 1788 is remembered at St Cross for his gift to the hospital of a triptych.

The triptych bought for £20, painted on oak panels, first hung from the east wall of the Brethren’s Hall, but now is displayed behind the altar of the Lady Chapel (south-east chapel) Its title is given as “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt”.

The centre panel depicts the Virgin Mary, sitting with the baby Jesus on her knee. Her left hand reaches out to grasp some grapes from a plate held by an angel. The plate also has some cherries on it. To her right, Joseph offers a pear. Behind is a landscape, with angels ascending. On the table before her is a pomegranate, an apple and an open book. The symbolism throughout is rife. Grapes represent the wine of the Eucharist and hence the sacrifice of Christ, cherries were regarded as fruits of paradise and represent Heaven. Pomegranates symbolise resurrection. Apples were traditionally the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. The open book shows Mary as the Mother of Wisdom. This symbolism is typical of the 16th century, and helps to place the date of the painting as somewhere about 1520.

On the other two sides of the triptych are Saints. To Mary’s left is Saint Barbara, recognised by the feather over her shoulder, alluding to the story that, when her father beat her, angels changed the scourges into peacock feathers. In the background is a tower, in which she was believed to have been imprisoned. St Katherine is to the right, holding the sword by which she was beheaded.

We are not certain who was the artist who painted triptych. Paintings were attributed successively to Dürer and Mabuse. There is a very similar triptych from St Michael’s Basingstoke and is attributed to the Flemish painter Peter Coecke van Aelst. The painting in St Cross could be a copy, or by the same painter, or from the same school. The painting is dated c. 1520. (P.H)

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Luke Edward Hall ‘I became known for taking inspiration from history, particularly the classical era, and pumping it with lots of colour.’ - Luke Edward Hall, Artist and Interior Designer. This designer, illustrator, painter and all-round creative polymath is the king of curation. He has succeeded in reconciling Instagram’s storytelling with a Cecil Beaton-esque quest for beauty. Hall’s artistic ascent has been rapid. His style may have been brewing in the creatively sterile suburbs of Basingstoke during his teens, but there was only a year between finishing at Central Saint Martins and establishing his studio in 2015 to being commissioned by Burberry to illustrate their SS16 campaign. ‘They wrote to me actually, I still don’t know how they found me.’ A string of prestigious hotel commissions followed, as did a project with the ‘Royal Academy of Arts' and fashion designer ‘Saloni’s’ colourful 10-year anniversary bash in Rajasthan, where his printed tent painted Instagram in vivid hues. It’s the sort of success designers can only dream of. So, why is this Vogue-branded ‘wunderkind’ in such high demand? It’s this playful, contemporary spin on a romantic yesteryear that makes Hall’s art, design and interior pieces instantly recognisable. His limited-edition collection in 'Liberty London' from hand-painted tasselled cushions of Hellenic faces to Harlequin trays, sticks out with a quasi-Wes Anderson quirk, while the illustrations adorning the 'Bloomsbury Hotel’s' opulent walls in central London reveal a telling romanticism and melancholic eccentricity. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #words #pictures #neon #urchin #artist #interiordesigner #northlondon #colour #campbellrey #duncancampbell #kingofcuration #habitat #robertoginori #lukeedwardhall https://www.instagram.com/p/B-g36qIgxc2/?igshid=10twe67gpc5ho

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Art and Ideas - 1

The  understanding  of  what art  is  and  how  the particular  circumstances that breed it is one of the most debated topics of the modern age, as the currently accepted understanding is constantly warped and boundaries are endlessly pushed it is difficult to ultimately track at what point the term art transcended from a simple craft comparable to the work of a mason or carpenter into its own separate and highly regarded level.

 What strictly constitutes as art is debated. The idea that a seemingly random, unthought-of object can be displayed on a plinth in a gallery confuses and even enrages many, but if one were to take the Oxford Dictionary definition of the word ‘Art’ it would be found that art is in fact: ‘The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.’ But this definition, despite being widely accepted, does not constitute perfectly what we now know as art or how there is a noticeable split from the learnt craft and ritualistic idols of court painters and early religions into the romanticized ideals  of deep thought and challengers of set orders we see today. Art Historian Dr. Larry Shiner formulates a conclusion on the invention of what we define art as in his 2001 book The Invention of Art: A Cultural History suggesting that the modern perception only originated in the 1700’s:

 “… prior to the eighteenth century neither the modern ideas of fine art, artist, and aesthetic nor the set of practices and institutions we associate with them were integrated into a normative system,”

 Shiner saw the period as a turning point, in which the artist was separated from the artisan, where independence from a seemingly strict set of rules were lifted and allowed for an exploration of aesthetic freedom and reflective liberty, a seed for major artistic movement that is still palpable even today. Shiner births the point that modern art can be the only form of true art today as it comes solely from the artist’s own thoughts, responses and emotions. For example, many of the earliest cave paintings found in Pettakere Cave in Indonesia show hand stencils imprinted onto the roof of the cave as a sign to ward off wild animals and evil spirits that would intend to harm the people of the cave, in these they held a function, not to be admired for their technical beauty or emotional resonance with the viewer, they were essentially equivalent to a ‘No Trespassing’ sign if anything, and in that sense lack a necessary component to constitute as: The Idea. Another example of this is the famous oil on canvas Portrait of Henry VIII originally painted by Hans Holbein the Younger, a full scale portrait of the Tudor king and while technically impressive the history behind it separates it from the modern definition. The intent for the portrait was to decorate his newly acquired Palace of Whitehall, specifically the privy chamber in which servants of the crown would stay to attend court or events hosted by the king and queen. The portrait was designed to represent the idea of Henry being a larger-than-life intimidation figure, a hyper-masculine idol towards the royal connections, each feature calculated by the artist to increase the king’s dominant visage rather than to actually represent him as a normal human being, in this way the artist is not himself painting the portrait, but Henry is (after all, he is the one paying the commission) and because it is not an independent piece based on the artist’s own emotional values or thoughts, technically it cannot be considered in the same class of modern art we see today. Once again, it lacks the idea.

 The idea itself is seminal to the artworld, the two are a cohesive duo that have produced the greatest artworks of the 21st century together, and in turn the finest, most elite works have become equated and paired with monumental movements in society and culture. If one were to think about a cultural movement, an instant aesthetic immediately comes to mind either shaped by the craft of the pre-Enlightenment era or the more independently birthed artwork that followed into the modern and postmodern. The relationship between art and ideas is interesting this way, as both are completely reliant on each other. Art being the subject of the thinkers and doers of their respective eras, the concepts they instill, stories they tell, and cultural or social revolutions that impact history create an overall foundation on which the artists walk and the great arts of their generations are made. These artworks continue to inspire the next class of thinkers and doers, seeding philosophies, spawning epic fictions and fueling the political innovations of their time. In this sense they are a completely symbiotic pair, ideas pull art and in turn art pulls ideas. To reject one cultural outcropping or a significant past movement when creating art breaks a large and prosperous chain and failing to recognize the influence of these gone-by eras can produce weak work, after all, artwork that is up to significant merit cannot be produced in a cultural vacuum. If one wishes to produce timeless works they must submerse themselves in the culture of their time.

 This can be represented from The Social Production of Art by Janet Wolff:

 “, it is important to notice that ideological forms are not only ideas, cultural values and religious beliefs, but also their embodiment in cultural institutions (schools, churches, art galleries, legal systems, political parties), and in cultural artifacts (texts, painting, buildings, and so on)…”

 The production of these ideas, the production of this art expands into a cultural well, something present for future generations to draw from and shape their own culture. This is one of the most important aspects of undertaking an artistic lifestyle, to look at both past and present with a critical eye, developing a rich knowledge of the strong and weak points in art history. From the God-like ideals of the early Greco-Roman sculptors to the more considered and rational thinkers of the Enlightenment stage, an understanding of these periods of history lends itself in the mind and work of an artist.

 Bibliography:

- The New Oxford Dictionary of English. (2010) 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press

- Shiner, Larry. (2001). The Invention of Art: A Cultural History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Page 14

- Caves in the district of Maros. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_in_the_district_of_Maros [Accessed 7 Nov. 2017]

- Portrait of Henry VIII. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Henry_VIII [Accessed 7 Nov. 2017]

- Inglis, D and Hughson, J. (2005) The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

- Wolff, J. (1993). The Social Production of Art. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, Page 54-55

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