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Jesús Franco's too-faithful adaptation never quite manages to rise from the dead.... click link to read more.
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https://thecraggus.com/2024/10/03/count-dracula-1970-review/
Discovered a few biographical lines of notes on Fred Williams that I had written a good while back. Nothing Earth shattering or in depth but decided I might as well pop them up on my blog.
https://krimifilm.blogspot.com/2023/02/fred-williams-09-feb-1938.html
'He’s learning how he wants to see the world and just how much he’s capable of showing. It’s a remarkable thing to witness'.
– Victoria Hannan, on *Fred Williams: The London Drawings*, currently on at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia.
Just a few enthusiastic lines in an otherwise unenthusiastic review.
In a 1953 essay for the New Statesman, John Berger writes that “for the artist, drawing is discovery”. At the time, Berger was also a drawing tutor at the School of Art at the Chelsea Polytechnic, where Australian Fred Williams studied for a few years from 1952. There’s evidence Williams and Berger crossed paths in two quick pen and ink drawings of the critic, shown in Fred Williams: The London Drawings. Both believed that drawing was fundamental to artistic practice, as technique and as an act of looking.
My latest arts podcast looks at Aussie Fred Williams and his earlier, somewhat unknown, portraiture work. Hope you enjoy it.
https://insidethegallery.com.au/e/inside-the-gallery-australia-fred-williams-the-london-years/
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has received a generous gift of more than 600 Fred Williams' drawings, cementing the collection's international significance as the most comprehensive research collection of the artist in the world. The drawings are ...