This is my EPQ essay I wrote earlier this year, in my last year at sixth form college. For those of you who don't know, EPQ stands for 'Extended Project Qualification' and is worth half an A level. You can pick any topic you like (within reason) to research and write an essay about, as [...]
To us today, it is difficult to understand why the Impressionists were scorned, mocked and often left penniless. Their paintings speak so lucidly of the experience of passing moments - waves hitting the shoreline, the mist of an autumn morning, a café concert singer lit by gaslight. Impressionist art is immediate and fresh, the paint [...]
Two fraud inspectors find 63 year old Marcel illegally distilling gnȏle and tax him 206,400 francs. The next day Marcel forces the inspectors into a windowless barn at gunpoint. He locks them inside - with a bottle of gnȏle to comfort them. There is a tax to pay on pain, he tells them. The inspectors, dazed [...]
This essay was awarded first place for the Write on Art prize, run by ArtUK and the Paul Mellon Centre. My essay is also up on the ArtUK website Pink and blue are tentatively appearing, fresh and delicate, out of tea-coloured varnish. It is London, 1967, and the initial restoration tests are being carried out [...]
