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    Fired Art Gallery and Retreat

    Jun 21, 2019 3 minutes
    Contributed by Sally Hook

    I love the human body, it seems … because I return to it time after time in sculpture, painting and drawing. Maybe I got the bug from poring over ‘Gombrich’ or ‘The History of Art’ – both long time art reference books – losing myself in fascination with the past. From fleshy, sinuous Rubens paintings to ‘The Nike of Samothrace’ (a winged but headless woman, marvelously sculpted); or the

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