John Baker’s Blog

This exhibition at The National Gallery brings out some old favourites as well as introducing us to some lesser known pictures.
Briefly, there are groupings of Monets, Pissaros, Degas’, Renoirs, Van Goghs and Cezannes, mostly taken from the gallery’s own collection, but some placed alongside loans from elsewhere.
The exhibition is portrayed broadly chronologically and there [...]

Art affects life because it teaches us how to see, how to hear, how to feel; because it has the capacity to create for us what we might term norms of feeling.
Within comedy, whatever else we may find, there is always the assertion of invulnerability, we are given permission to laugh by the perception that [...]

1. Why do you blog?
I blog to be read and to connect. I started my blog as a substitute of my old website, but it has become something more dynamic. I do not post every day, but try to update it regularly with new poetic posts, Art or links to other blogs.
It’s through BlogLand that [...]