My friend Sam used to be an art history lecturer and I had told her, around the time we went to Cape Town, that I did want to learn more about art: genres, styles, and movements. So, after sending me a general overview by e-mail, she handed over a bag, almost bursting, of magazines. Each issue covers a different artist from a different genre. I did salivate a bit and then start to melt at the joints when she showed me the bag!

I’ve been through 2 issues so far. I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying learning. I’m both learning it in an academic sense and I’m also jotting down, in a dedicated notebook, paintings that I like and I would like to use or incorporate or be inspired by in my films. I look at the painting I like and I try to see how I would do it in a shot or sequence in film. As with the reason behind getting into photography,  I want to get into art and art history to enrich and deepen my craft for film.

I’ll drop short posts about the artists that I’ve covered and the paintings that I’ve noted.