Abundant Fruits of Reduction: helping the new moderns

1933 (St Rémy: self-portrait with Barbara Hepworth), Ben Nicholson, 1933Oil on canvas, 27.3 x 16.8 cmCopyright: Angela Verren Taunt.All rights reserved, DACS Twentieth century modernism did not arrive in Britain fully formed and ready to go. Nor did it show up in kit-form, with a set of how-to instructions. Like most artistic movements, modernism needed … Continue reading Abundant Fruits of Reduction: helping the new moderns

The Art of David Jones: the slow transmission of cultural identity

At the start of the BBC series The Art that Made Us, Antony Gormley peers intently at Spong Man, a small fifth-century Anglo-Saxon clay figure seized by existential anguish. We next see Gormley in his studio with a small clay figure hunched by lockdown depression. In the programmes that follow, we witness many such creative … Continue reading The Art of David Jones: the slow transmission of cultural identity