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All the underlined bits of text, and most images, on the site are links. Text links turn black once they have been used except when they are in the midst of paragraphs where black would be distracting. Images with white borders will have the borders go black. Links also should turn colours when the mouse is on them: orange mostly, but blue when clicking them opens a new window, or red when they lead elsewhere on the same page. Text size is in the reader's control (text sizing buttons can be added to your toolbar if they're not already there).
When printing, select the printer's option to NOT print the background to get the text black on white.
Please Note that the text on many pages will fill the breadth of the windows they are viewed in. Reading text with lines of more than 80 or so characters can be hard on the eyes, so it is strongly recommended that the font size and window width are adjusted with this in mind.
This site is set up like an ever-unfolding museum where the shows keep going up but never come down or like a pop-up reference book that keeps expanding. I hope it might provide enjoyment over many visits, extended and brief.
RonBloore.ca is an offshoot of the job of cataloguing the works which remain in the painter's possession. It is entirely the work of the Bloore Studio Drudge, Hank Roest (seen above and here, and below), who is, to an unusual extent, responsible for its content because its subject and sponsor has no interest in reading it. The simple painter sticks to a policy, implemented in 1959, of not saying, writing, nor even reading anything about himself or his work (except to speak of his methods).
(There is a story that, Bloore, upon being told that Terry Heath would write a long piece for the Not Without Design catalogue [which is here] said, "You know I won't read your essay." Heath replied, "That's fine. I won't look at your paintings," because he was writing specifically about Bloore's ideas on art, not his works - which speak for themselves: "If you won't talk about them, why should I?" Although funny, this did not turn out entirely true.)
The pages have mainly been sized for those among us who, for reasons we shall not question, have 800x600 screen resolutions. Most Gallery pages, however, work best on larger monitors.
Getting the gist of a Bloore is a difficult enough thing when it's in front of you; let alone in reproduction. Retaining a sense of their textures and their scale is the challenge. In digitizing my photos and those of others, enjoyment and truth to the intentions of the original have been my goals. Thus the murals are shown in their context to convey a sense of their relationship, or lack of relationship, to their setting (the perennial tension between art, architecture and interior decoration having in the last century deteriorated to the point of antagonism). It is also a treat to have photos of the smallest sculptures reproduce almost as large as life.
There is nothing but plain HTML 4.0 on this site; no javascript; no frames; no PNGs; no flash, bells or whistles. I have reluctantly added "cascading" style sheets but to no great advantage; rather the opposite. Learning software features and their endless browser compatibility issues has been minimized to dedicate the most time to the content. The hope is that, rather than looking interesting, the site will be interesting.
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