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Regarding Baudelaire’s ‘The Painter of Modern...
I was discussing this project with a friend recently and he asked me if I had ever read Charles Baudelaire’s essay ‘The Painter of Modern Life’. Though Baudelaire’s book of poems ‘Les Fleurs de Mal’ (‘The Flowers of Evil’) had had a profound effect on me as a teenager (and on my partly symbolist inspired painting that was beginning to evolve at that time), and though I had long known...
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Introduction
Welcome to Lightfoot’s Hackney Project, the working title for a new series of paintings by me, the artist Michael Lightfoot. It shall chronicle the evolution of a series of paintings of and about both the landscapes and inhabitants of Hackney, East London in 2012. This blog is intended to be seen by anyone interested in the project, but in particular for people who have either modelled for...
Mar 2nd