Art Archives - Nerdalicious

You Won’t Believe Who Drew This Doodle Of Indiana Jones In May, 1980

June 27, 2015

He's the sardonic, whip-cracking adventurer who brings together the quest for knowledge, treasure hunting, scientific curiosity with skin-of-your-teeth breakneck adventure. He defeats Nazis, Thuggees and Chines... Read More...

Why We Won’t Be Watching Avatar 2

C S Hughes

June 3, 2015

Film & TV

James Cameron's Avatar was a brilliant piece of epic sci-fi entertainment. A hero overcoming both injury and tragedy, finding a just cause, flight and freedom, a beautifully realized, lush alien world, at once ... Read More...

Gourmet Paper Mache Presents A Timelapse Of The Great Red Dragon

C S Hughes

December 9, 2014

Art

Dragons. Beasts wrested from our darkest subconscious which take flight in our highest dreams. In medieval times they were known for despoiling maidens. While largely symbolic, how exactly that worked should pe... Read More...

The Short And Startling History Of Animals Without Pants

C S Hughes

July 3, 2014

Art, Ridiculam Mundi

Archaeologists and anthropologists will tell you; humans wear clothes for warmth, protection and decoration. Psychologists will tell you we wear clothes to enhance our naughty bits, religious types will tell yo... Read More...

Three Must See Comic Book Museums

C S Hughes

January 5, 2014

Art

The Bayeux Tapestry Museum The Bayeux Tapestry is perhaps the most famous of ancient comic strips. It depicts events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England, 1064-1066, culminating in the Battle Of Hastin... Read More...

Dirty Little Secrets – Sarah Rosado Finds Jewels In The Dirt

C S Hughes

January 4, 2014

Art

There is something primal about making pictures out of dirt, twigs, bark and found objects. It is perhaps our first experience of our own creativity, the first mark we leave on the world, our first attempt to s... Read More...

Henry VIII’s Diabolical Portrait

C S Hughes

November 29, 2013

Art, History

16th Century Mural of Henry VIII has a diabolical secret When Angie and Rhodri Powell found a near life size portrait hidden under the plaster of their 16th century home a few years ago, it was described as... Read More...

The Hidden Political Agendas In Richard Scarry’s Naughty Bunny

C S Hughes

October 17, 2013

Art, Books, Ridiculam Mundi

Richard Scarry's Naughty Bunny is a children's book, published by Golden Press, Sydney, in 1974, by arrangement with Western Publishing Company. It seems an innocent tale of a cute but naughty bunny. Make no mi... Read More...

The Innocence of Sin City’s Robots

C S Hughes

August 9, 2013

Art

Geoffrey Gersten's robots share a little with Pixar, but not much with Disney, they have a definite inheritance from the tin and plastic toy robots of the 50s and 60s, and also from the robots depicted in the c... Read More...

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