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Frida Kahlo, Keeping it Real… & Surreal?

Considering ‘The Two Fridas’ and ‘The Wounded Table’ — key works by the Mexican painter of emotion and imagination.

6 min readMar 4, 2024

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Frida Kahlo, Keeping it Real… & Surreal?

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Rosa Bonheur, the Animalière

Revisiting a technically brilliant realist who endeavoured to reveal the souls of her subjects and celebrate our connection with the land…

6 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Rosa Bonheur, the Animalière

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Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water

How aesthetics and mechanics flow together in the work of the great Renaissance artist

6 min readJan 17, 2024

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Leonardo da Vinci, the Way of Water

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For the Love of Water-Lilies: Monet’s Final Masterworks

Once reviled, now revered, Claude Monet’s series of paintings reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace & celebrate the…

9 min readNov 5, 2023

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For the Love of Water-Lilies: Monet’s Final Masterworks

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A Peasant Wedding

Here is a snapshot of a lively summer wedding reception… painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in 1567.

9 min readSep 30, 2023

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A Peasant Wedding

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Kim Vertue
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Dürer and Jerome: Being Human

Considering Albrecht Dürer’s Engraving of Saint Jerome in His Study and What it Meant in the Northern Renaissance

7 min readAug 6, 2023

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Dürer and Jerome: Being Human

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Paul and Helen, Mountain and Sea

Considering Cézanne and Frankenthaler as landscape, actions, and re-actions meld Impressionism with Abstract Expressionism…

6 min readJul 17, 2023

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Paul and Helen, Mountain and Sea

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Kim Vertue
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The Dreamy Realism of Kawase Hasui

…and his indelible legacy in anime, manga, and contemporary illustration

7 min readJun 29, 2023

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The Dreamy Realism of Kawase Hasui

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Art, Science, and Darwin’s Great Tree of Life

Celebrating ‘Tree’ by Tania Kovats, the first permanent public artwork installed at London’s Natural History Museum…

6 min readMay 28, 2023

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Art, Science, and Darwin’s Great Tree of Life

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“Horseman, pass by!”

…or the long legacy of van Dyck’s famous ‘Equestrian Portrait of King Charles I’

5 min readMay 8, 2023

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“Horseman, pass by!”

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Kim Vertue

Kim Vertue

Writer on art, film, and food — published in The Scrawl, Signifier, Frame Rated and Plate-up. Fiction published internationally and in translation.

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