The suicide of Vincent van Gogh – 29 July 1890
This post also appears on Dorian Cope’s blog On This Deity. On 27 July 1890, Vincent van Gogh, an unkempt, unknown 37-year-old Dutchman, walked out of his lodgings in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of Paris, where he had been living and working since May. That day instead of his usual easel and paints, [...]
The death of Frida Kahlo – 13 July 1954
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” …and Frida’s reality was a lifetime of extreme physical pain and tortuous suffering, punctuated with a tempestuous emotional turbulence. Artist Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish father and indigenous Mexican mother. She [...]
Cornbury festival 2011
For reasons too complicated to explain, this year’s Cornbury festival took place not at Cornbury Park, but at Great Tew Park in Oxfordshire, just 15 miles from home. Happily, the change of location made no difference to the atmosphere. We went for just one day because there were some big names to see, too good [...]
