When it comes to discussing art in newspapers, does the media’s emphasis on provocation merely reduce issues into straightforward oppositions, and at the cost of developed argument and consistency? Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Art
Painting of the Week: 69
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Sun in an Empty Room, 1963, oil on canvas, 73 x 100cm, Private Collection. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 68
Unknown artist, Sir Henry Unton, oil on panel, circa 1596, 74 x 163.2 cm, National Portrait Gallery. Continue reading »
Answering Bakhtin
Because creativity is so complex, multivalent, and difficult to define, should we, like Mikhail Bakhtin, abandon attempts to theorise these processes? Continue reading »
Adolf Loos, Art & Artlessness
Affirming authentic tradition as well as utility, even comfort, while attacking the Vienna Sucession as indulgently decorative, Adolf Loos is no simple anti-architect. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 64
Percy Shakespeare (1906-1943), Morning Exercise, 1934, oil on canvas, 76 x 63.5 cm, private collection. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 63
Lydia Dona, Photo Ghosts and the Labyrinth Drips on the Void, 1996, oil, acrylic, and sign paint on canvas, 213.4 x 162.6 cm. Continue reading »
Cindy Sherman’s Theatres of Perversity
Maria Walsh on how Cindy Sherman’s ‘Doll’ sculptures of the 1990s reveal a dynamic relationship between art and psychoanalysis. Continue reading »
Post Marcs
Today in 1916, German expressionist painter Franz Marc was fatally wounded at the Battle of Verdun. Continue reading »
Painting of the Week: 60
John Crome (1768-1821), Moonrise on the Yare, c.1811-1816, oil on canvas, 71.1 x 111.1 cm, Tate. Continue reading »
