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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?
Remy Dean
Jan 17
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…
Remy Dean
Jan 10
Paints, Canvas, Action!
Paints, Canvas, Action!
The large abstracts of Jackson Pollock are both jazz-dance notation and self-portrait…
Remy Dean
Jan 3
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…
Kim Vertue
Dec 20, 2020
The Power of Three
The Power of Three
Braque, Picasso, and Gris: exploring key concepts of Cubism with its pioneering exponents
Remy Dean
Dec 13, 2020
A Rhinoceros-shaped Idea
A Rhinoceros-shaped Idea
Why Albrecht Dürer’s fabulous woodcut still stirs the imagination
Kim Vertue
Dec 6, 2020
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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…
Remy Dean
Nov 10, 2019
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.
Remy Dean
Oct 4, 2020
Driven to Abstraction
Driven to Abstraction
Discussing and defining abstract art, from Cave Paintings to Kandinsky.
Remy Dean
Aug 9, 2020
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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.
Remy Dean
Nov 29, 2020
Sharing A Long Walk…
Sharing A Long Walk…
The main medium of Richard Long’s landscape art is the land itself
Remy Dean
Nov 22, 2020
Wild Beast of Art
Wild Beast of Art
How Henri Matisse released colour from captivity and became the ‘Father of the Fauves’
Remy Dean
Nov 15, 2020
A Day To Remember?
A Day To Remember?
Photography by Chino Otsuka, Jonathan Meades, Tom Wood, Me and You!
Remy Dean
Nov 8, 2020
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…
Remy Dean
Oct 31, 2020
The Great Wave
The Great Wave
Quintessentially Japanese, yet influenced by Western art, Hokusai’s print fascinated and inspired many Modern painters…
Kim Vertue
Oct 25, 2020
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.
Remy Dean
Oct 18, 2020
Thomas Gainsborough and the Impending Storm
Thomas Gainsborough and the Impending Storm
Did Georgian portraits of English aristocracy hide a darker alternative narrative?
Remy Dean
Oct 11, 2020
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…
Remy Dean
Sep 27, 2020
The Dazzling Vortex
The Dazzling Vortex
Some Vorticists flirted with fascism, but their art also helped defend the allied navies…
Remy Dean
Sep 20, 2020
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…
Kim Vertue
Sep 13, 2020
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.
Remy Dean
Sep 6, 2020
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.
Remy Dean
Aug 30, 2020
Preserving Paradise
Preserving Paradise
Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ and our eternal desire to capture and keep the essence of beauty.
Kim Vertue
Aug 23, 2020
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.
Remy Dean
Aug 16, 2020
Building for World Domination
Building for World Domination
Monumental architecture as the proclamation of a culture’s wealth and power.
Remy Dean
Aug 2, 2020
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…
Remy Dean
Jul 26, 2020
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