Episode 357 Where the heavenly bodies were October 27th 2020. Artists and Astronauts Birthdays

Where the heavenly bodies were on October 27th 2020. It is a characteristically accomplished work by Mary Moser, the watercolour made luminous by the gum arabic binder. Each flower is precisely delineated, the entire effect deliberate, beautiful and morbid at once. In the mid 1790s, Queen Charlotte commissioned Moser to decorate a chamber at Frogmore House in Windsor – a major project to which she devoted herself with glorious abandon, fashioning it in the style of an open garden with elaborate floral wall panels and ceiling motifs. It is curious, then, that Moser should be largely forgotten by art history. She was gifted, her work was popular – and she played a crucial role in the story of British art as one of the 34 original founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA). Stefan Wewerka “„So manchen Bau könnte man abreißen, die Materialien sorgfältig sammeln, um daraus wieder etwas Neues zu errichten als Demonstration dafür, daß Architektur, soll sie eine künstlerische Auffassung ausdrücken, nicht nur eine Angelegenheit von Geld, sondern von Phantasie und Vernunft zugleich ist“ TRANSLATION "Many a building could be torn down, the materials carefully collected in order to build something new out of it as a demonstration that architecture, if it is to express an artistic. “ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.frieze.com/article/two-founding-members-royal-academy-were-women-who-were-they%3famp