The Art Room Plant blog

My work has been blogged by a former co-student at Edinburgh, Hazel Terry.

Here is a link: http://theartroomplant.blogspot.com/2010/10/tadesz-deregowski.html

Corner of an office block, UDSC

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Corner of an office block, UDSC, oil on card, 10 x 12 cm  - available

I might perhaps add as a caption, like Lichtenstein, with a phrase from a pop song, because the style is remisiscent of cartoons.

Of the cartoonists easily my favourite is Tintin, specifically the Tintin of the Calculus Affair period, with its sonbre colours and Noir atmosphere of menace.

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Entrance kiosk

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Entrance kiosk, oil on card, 9.5 x 13.5 cm  - available

Such little kiosks a a feature of most public buildings and condominiums here. This one guards the entrance to a gym.

Windy day, Lagoa

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Windy day, Lagoa, oil on card, 9.5 x 12.5  - available

The picture is more grey than is the case i the photo.

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The moon

Dedicated to Larissa, nightwalker

Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song

After great cathedral gong;

A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains

All that man is,

All mere complexities,

The fury and the mire of human veins

Y. B. Yeats, from Byzantium

Ordinary People (1980): review: 8/10

The troubled son of wealthy Illinois family consults a psychiatrist and starts a relationship with a girl with a mullet hairdo and thick socks.

Featuring The Psychiatrist as Detective (mother is The Culprit, of course): the piece is sympathetically filmed and intelligently acted, indeed is often quite moving, and seems to prefigure more recent slacker films such as "Garden State".

Chloe (2009): review: 6/10

Icy Toronto: a woman hires a prostitute to discover if her flirtatious husband is susceptable to having an affair.

This, as we discover during the film, is a very foolish thing to do.

Well acted and swiftly directed, if somewhat formulaic.