10 December 2009 08:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the latest in my occasional series on the depiction of landslides in art. The previous parts of this series are here:Part 1Part 2 Today I turn to a classic painting from the 19th Century, painted by Lord Frederic Leighton, entitled “On the Coast, Isle of Wight”: This oil sketch, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, shows a stretch of the Isle of Wight coastline in southern …
Tags: artwork, isle of wight, painting, UK
7 December 2009 09:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Tags: artwork, landslide
7 December 2009 09:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Tags: artwork, landslide
29 November 2009 09:14 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought that it would be interesting to run a series of occasional posts on landslides in art. The first is, rather predictably, called “Landslide” by Francie Lyshak, the source of which is here: Landslide, by Francie Lyshak, Oil on linen, 50 x 37, 1990 The accompanying text, by Joe Vojkto, says: “The cosmic site-gag of Francie Lyshakâs painting, Landslide, hits like a ton of bricks and opens up old …
20 March 2014 12:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
At Dawlish in SW England Network Rail are trying to mitigate a landslide by inducing failure using fire hoses
Tags: Devon, featured, landslide report, railway, UK
30 November 2012 00:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A selection of landslides triggered by the recent uusually heavy rainfall across the UK
Tags: coastal, Devon, featured, Gloucestershire, landslide report, railway, Shropshire, Sussex, UK
25 October 2011 07:07 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An excerpt from the classic Buster Keaton movie Seven Chances in which the star demonstrates how to trigger and then escape from a rockslide
Tags: film, movies
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