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Richard III (2016 ©Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, acrylic on canvas)
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Norms at La Pedrera (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
For Lisbon Norms this is a scene from every day life
While for Parisian Norms, it’s not unusual to see Egyptians wondering by.
Norms in Soller (2013, © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown)
Norms at the Halloween House of Horrors (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
Norms visit the C’an Joan de S’Aigo (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
The Nighthawk Norms (after Hopper) (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
Norms in Pisa (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
Tube Norms (2012, © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
Norms in Dubrovnik take the Cable Car (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
While these Norm tourists are at the Musée Rodin.
Norms on Dubrovnik Beach (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)Featured Painting
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The houses are very boxy indeed! I can see why you made that painting.
Thanks for sharing these photos. I get so tired of the ugliness around me. What is so hard, I ask you, about making a beautiful building? I mean, it must be some shape or other – why not a pleasing shape while the architect is at it?
What fascinates me is that all these buidlings are either faithful to or a creative departure from the same basic model. And yet you don’t get the depressing effect of a subdivision. Some thorough appropriateness is at work, and it works, apparently in a natural way: looking at this town I highly doubt that some civic planning commission made a decree about the shape of the buildings.
I think that the Italians just understand the underlying aesthetics of something instinctively. It’s in their blood and their history and when they build, or cook, or create they just get it. I often wonder why modern buildings in London have to be quite so ghastly, when in the past the elegance of Victorian buildings was insuperable. It’s like we just lost our way.
I know what you mean. Well, I’ve never been to Italy or London but I think I know what you mean. Louisville, KY, where I am now has some decent buildings, but Detroit, MI, where I used to live, was horrific. Even the churches looked like giant slugs or foundering futuristic battleships or something.
Have you read Christopher Alexander? If not, his “Timeless Way of Building” may interest you. Toss it in your Amazon wishlist or whatever… it’s one of the classics.