Arcady RA

culture is an orthogonal state of mind

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

@Trad_Arch_Bdays A very talented student of Barry, carrying the 19th century classic tradition of him Pennethorne and Cockerell forward almost into the 20th century. When Shaw and others were awkwardly reconstructing the 'lost' rigor of classicism, Gibson was practicing it in an unbroken form

[Wren @youthandpride]

Invented watercolour landscape, trying to get my money's worth from some fancy paper I bought

[The American Sculptor @Am_sculptor]

Black tie for the Blessed Mother.

[DGarf Art @DgarfArt]

Life drawing earlier today.

[Wren @youthandpride]

Three nymphs and a satyr dancing in the forest

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

@Trad_Arch_Bdays It's hinting at something noble, I like chastity and refinement, but the Greeks, the Georgians, the 18th century French, Schinkel, always alleviate this heavy masculine, lithic manner with notes of feminine elegance- curved forms, carving, delicate/ enriched mouldings

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

@tectonic_ideal Very Muzio, as many better contemporary practices seem to be

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

If you want to see my work I’m going to be on Instagram only from now on. Will post a link when I get it up and running. Thank you

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Feel like Instagram has more to offer than here at this point

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Detail of the apse in the library of Kenwood House, London, Adam

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

@Trad_Arch_Bdays Jimby: where’s my hat

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

DESIGN FOR A WATER PLANT

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Recent interior designs

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Charles Barry's interior renovations of Kingston Lacy, Dorset. One of the few competent Victorian classicists

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Cappella Chigi, Rome, Raphael

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

The beginning of the great Georgian shift to horizontality, pediments and mansards replaced with shifting and stepping attics and parapets

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

South Front of Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoore

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

@GordonDComstock Pre-Raphaelite banner- opinion dismissed!

[Arcady RA @BornInArcady]

Fireplace and overmantle at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, Adam