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Choco l’art

Choco l’art

What do mutton pies, a new format for portraits, the protestant monarchy of England, poster art, and chocolate snack bars have in common?
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Remy Dean
Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

Yves Klein was not only interested in the seeing of colour, but in the being of colour…
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Remy Dean
Paints, Canvas, Action!

Paints, Canvas, Action!

The large abstracts of Jackson Pollock are both jazz-dance notation and self-portrait…
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Remy Dean
Yuletide Greetings Across the Centuries

Yuletide Greetings Across the Centuries

When Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his famous ‘Christmas card’ winter landscape, he broke with tradition and inspired a new one…
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Kim Vertue
The Power of Three

The Power of Three

Braque, Picasso, and Gris: exploring key concepts of Cubism with its pioneering exponents
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Remy Dean
A Rhinoceros-shaped Idea

A Rhinoceros-shaped Idea

Why Albrecht Dürer’s fabulous woodcut still stirs the imagination
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Kim Vertue
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“I Like America and America Likes Me” — but where’s the Art?

“I Like America and America Likes Me” — but where’s the Art?

Reflecting on the compelling complexity of the ‘Coyote’ process and how it changed our perceptions of where art happens and what art is…
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Remy Dean
The Ashes of Nash

The Ashes of Nash

During the late 1970s, in a secret woodland location somewhere in Snowdonia, David Nash set a new paradigm for landscape art.
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Remy Dean
Driven to Abstraction

Driven to Abstraction

Discussing and defining abstract art, from Cave Paintings to Kandinsky.
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Body Beautiful

Body Beautiful

Classical Greek statues established the western paradigms of masculine and feminine (even bovine) beauty that have persisted to this day.
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Sharing A Long Walk…

Sharing A Long Walk…

The main medium of Richard Long’s landscape art is the land itself
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Wild Beast of Art

Wild Beast of Art

How Henri Matisse released colour from captivity and became the ‘Father of the Fauves’
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A Day To Remember?

A Day To Remember?

Photography by Chino Otsuka, Jonathan Meades, Tom Wood, Me and You!
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Sat Upon my Heart, an Incubus

Sat Upon my Heart, an Incubus

How a nightmare of the Gothic imagination prefigured Surrealism and the art of horror…
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The Great Wave

The Great Wave

Quintessentially Japanese, yet influenced by Western art, Hokusai’s print fascinated and inspired many Modern painters…
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Kim Vertue
Babylon, Ancient Champion of Equality?

Babylon, Ancient Champion of Equality?

The ancient city of Babylon was not only famous for its Hanging Gardens, it was also home to the first known museum.
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Remy Dean
Thomas Gainsborough and the Impending Storm

Thomas Gainsborough and the Impending Storm

Did Georgian portraits of English aristocracy hide a darker alternative narrative?
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Remy Dean
The Latter Days of Vincent

The Latter Days of Vincent

In the final two years of his life, Van Gogh painted a series of autobiographical paintings that reveal his joy and despair…
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Remy Dean
The Dazzling Vortex

The Dazzling Vortex

Some Vorticists flirted with fascism, but their art also helped defend the allied navies…
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Remy Dean
This Woman’s Work

This Woman’s Work

Paintings by Berthe Morisot now command some of the highest prices at auction of any woman artist, but it wasn’t always this way…
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Kim Vertue
Caravaggio, Bad-Boy of Baroque

Caravaggio, Bad-Boy of Baroque

Mad, bad and dangerous to know! Long before the Romantics made it fashionable, Caravaggio templated the tear-away artist.
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It was a New Spin on Art

It was a New Spin on Art

Duchamp’s ‘Readymades’ circumvented rational aesthetics and presented new artistic terrains, ready for Dada and Surrealism to explore.
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Preserving Paradise

Preserving Paradise

Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ and our eternal desire to capture and keep the essence of beauty.
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Kim Vertue
An Uneasy Beauty: Pre-Raphaelites and the Feminine Ideal

An Uneasy Beauty: Pre-Raphaelites and the Feminine Ideal

…and what lies beneath the beautiful surface of paintings rife with nostalgia for a time that never existed.
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Building for World Domination

Building for World Domination

Monumental architecture as the proclamation of a culture’s wealth and power.
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Remy Dean
The Artist as Curator

The Artist as Curator

When a collection becomes an assemblage, the exhibition is installation art — from Marcel Broodthaers to Grayson Perry…
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Remy Dean
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