Claudia MassieSebastiao Salgado — master of monochrome, chronicler of the depths of human barbarity | The…Occasionally, we encounter an image that seems so ludicrously out of kilter with the modern world that we can only flounder in antiquity…Oct 5, 2019Oct 5, 2019
Claudia MassieThe women who invented collage — long before Picasso and co. | The SpectatorThe art-history books will tell you that sometime around 1912, Picasso invented collage, or, actually, perhaps it was Braque. What they…Jul 6, 2019Jul 6, 2019
Claudia MassieTuEvery year on New Year’s Day, the craziest people in Edinburgh congregate on the frozen shores of the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry…Mar 1, 2019Mar 1, 2019
Claudia MassieSt Francis and the NativityPeeking through the thick oak forests that flank the slopes of Mount Lacerone, a couple of hours north of Rome, is the weathered face of a…Mar 1, 2019Mar 1, 2019
Claudia MassieThe terrifying genius of LeonardoA cataclysmic storm is unfolding. Dense, thunderous lines of black chalk sweep rapidly around the paper in frantic curls of awesome energy…Feb 23, 2019Feb 23, 2019
Claudia MassieTwelve Months Hard LabourTwelve Months Hard Labour (January) is a wandering, organic drawing that sprawls across the paper like a cell culture proliferating on a…Feb 6, 2019Feb 6, 2019
Claudia MassieLautrec often made the stars in his posters look appalling — but they kept coming back | The…You don’t need to be much of a psychologist to understand the trajectory of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Born to aristocratic first cousins…Oct 20, 2018Oct 20, 2018
Claudia MassieNolde was giddily optimistic about the Nazis — they rewarded him by confiscating his worksThe complexities of Schleswig-Holstein run deep. Here’s Emil Nolde, an artist born south of the German-Danish border and steeped in the…Jul 28, 2018Jul 28, 2018
Claudia MassieTrue, dogged likenessesThere are currently 151,000,000 photos on Instagram tagged #Dog which is 14,000,000 more than those tagged #Cat. The enormous number…Dec 16, 2017Dec 16, 2017
Claudia MassieWhat does ‘Guernica’ really symbolise?It takes a bold author to open his book about ‘Guernica’ with a quotation from the Spanish artist Antonio Saura lamenting ‘the number of…Nov 11, 2017Nov 11, 2017