Tag: painting

Amy Bessone at the Alison Jacques Gallery

Amy Bessone imbues the campy and kitsch with a soft and enigmatic humanity bringing depth where there was none. ...

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Van Gogh, Messiah & Madman Debunked

Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats...

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Pacific an Exhibition by Sax Impey

The work draws upon the unique experiences of the 60 day voyage, including both extraordinary landfalls and the time spent sailing one of the most remote parts of the ocean....

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Anticipating John Hoyland at the Tate

Anticipating John Hoyland at Tate, Natalie Andrews is thinking about the contemporary relevance of slow art. ...

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Unpicking The Expressive Fallacy

Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting 'The Expressive Fallacy', a rights of passage for artists....

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What is Authenticity After The Expressive Fallacy?

'The Expressive Fallacy' is an article from 1983 which still reverberates through the art world. ...

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Helen Beard Largest Solo Exhibition to Date

It's Her Factory introduces a new body of Beard’s large-scale, vibrant works that examine contemporary portrayals of sexuality, and reclaim ownership over the body from the male gaze....

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Uncommon Bodies in Figurative Art

Martha Parsey: Symbolic feminism and the revolt...

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A Romance of Many Dimensions at sid motion

Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery...

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Paintings, Flat Sculpture, and Non-Medium Specific Art

Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro...

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Mud and the Body By-Product

Damien Meade: making the artificial appear sentient...

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Pain, Wit & Painting

Andrew Litten: timeless models of expression...

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Science Fiction and New Dimensions in Art

Adam Dix: The subtle elevation of iconography and reality...

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Painterly Process and Human Traces

The emerging artist Connor Robertson has a sophisticated painterly technique and a strong sense of drama. ...

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Postcards from the Lost Generation: Picasso 1915-1925

Review of 'Pablo Picasso: Between Cubism and Classicism 1915-1925' Ed. Berggruen and von Liechtenstein. ...

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Looking for the Next Generation

It is the time of the season. The young ones are putting their artwork on show at the outset of what they hope will be a long and successful vocation as artists....

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Emilio Vedova, Icon of Radical Italian Art

The hero of radical Italian art in who painting is reinvigorated as the premier medium encompassing all others. ...

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Curves versus Angles

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

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Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy

Installation shot, Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;D/dropcapuncan Wylie is a prodigious painter who,...

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Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present

Explore human hopes and technological power while worrying away at the fragility of life on Earth, welcome to the worlds of Geoff Diego Litherland. ...

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Phillip Allen Body & Mind

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

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Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. ...

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London Arts Fair 2018 at the Islington Business Centre

Painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia and dialogue in the heart of Islington, London...

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Hymns to the Silence: Ephrem Solomon at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

Deeply personal portraiture with strong socio-political purpose...

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries

When the idea is to introduce new voices in contemporary art, it helps not to have the judging panel overshadow the artists...

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Loitered Lens: Frieze London International 2017- Sculpture Garden

Colour and comment: A look back at Frieze 2017...

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Frieze London International Art Fair 2017

Subverting, and sometimes satisfying expectations, Frieze returns to London...

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‘If I was on a desert island I woudn’t make art’: Gavin Turk [Interview]

Narcissicism or Self-Portraiture: A Problem Solved?...

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Everywhen Dreaming: Richard Stone

Capturing the essence of 'an English dreaming' at Kristen Hjellegjerde Gallery...

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Adam Lee: This Earthen Tent

Experiential visions that are both magical and foreboding, familiar and strange...

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