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Well, well, it’s TPSAYE’s first bloggy award, the “Best Blog Darts Thinker,” courtesy of the Irish Elk. Thankee very much, indeed!
Here’s how this particular award works:
This award acknowledges the values that every blogger shows in his/her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary and personal values every day.
The rules to follow are:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person that has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to other 15 blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgment.
Well, now.
You have no doubt noticed that the blogroll of TPSAYE is considerably smaller than the one over at the Llamas. This was a conscious choice of mine when I decided to set up my own microblog: I wanted a manageble roll consisting only of high quality blogs that I read on a daily basis. In this, I believe I have succeeded. And the upshot is that I can now nominate all of them for their own Darts.
Thus, a glass of wine with all of my fellow port-swillers on the left. Congratulations, you’ve all been darted!
While poking about in the Tate’s Hogarth Room in order to find a copy of the print below, I again came across this painting of Hogarth’s, about which I had forgotten. It is entitled The Shrimp Girl and dates from about 1740 or so.
For all its broad brush strokes and air of hasty composition, I love this painting – the girl’s face is so fresh, so animated and so joyful that it just fills one one with happiness. When you see something like this, for a while at least nothing else really matters all that much.
As long as I was fooling about with Hogarth, I thought you might like to see her as well.
The Enraged Musician, by William Hogarth.
One of the hallmarks of a classic work of art is that it retains its relevance down the years. I very often think of this print while attempting to play the piano in my noisy household.
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