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
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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
Glen Baxter: the iconoclast from Leeds
Glen Baxter prepares to meet his admirers at Flowers Central, Cork Street Who would not want a bit of a lift on a dark Thursday evening in winter? And above is a photographic portrait of the masked man who gave it to me, freely, gladly, unapologetically. The name of this posing man is Baxter, Glen, … Continue reading Glen Baxter: the iconoclast from Leeds
Old National Treasure
Portrait of Charles William Lambton (1818-31) We are delighted to learn from the National Gallery this morning that a portrait of a boy by Sir Thomas Lawrence is destined to enter our national collections for a knock down price of a little under £10 million. The child’s portrait represents everything that we need to be calmly … Continue reading Old National Treasure
California’s Dreams of Coolness: the art of Eddie Ruscha
Sapling Gallery, Mayfair, installation shot Nestled among the red bricks of Mount Street Mews - not far from the splendour of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where Evelyn Waugh sought solace - there’s a new light filled gallery in London’s Mayfair, called Sapling. With potted plants outside, its sizeable glass façade provides a first glimpse of … Continue reading California’s Dreams of Coolness: the art of Eddie Ruscha
Grasping after Perfection: the making of Rodin
Auguste Rodin The Three Shadows, before 1886, S.03970 If you were expecting to see Rodin as the maker of finished sculptural objects, a fabricator of masterpieces in bronze or marble, a maker whose works could easily be defined and wholly encompassed by the word MONUMENTALITY, this is the wrong exhibition for you. Auguste Rodin, Hanaka … Continue reading Grasping after Perfection: the making of Rodin
Deep Down Blueness
Explore the mesmerising world of David Hornung's new cyanotypes in artlicker.org REVIEWS
Deep Down Blueness
The Heart is Not a Home Could it be something to do with the fact that the eye is moving through ever finer, and often ever more finely layered, gradations of a single colour? And that the particular colour in question is of course blue, which drags along in its slow wake a long history … Continue reading Deep Down Blueness
Georg Baselitz and the Graspability of Hands
Two series of new prints by Georg Baselitz at the Cristea Roberts Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London. explore his recent preoccupation with the fragility of the human hand - until 15 May
Georg Baselitz and the Graspability of Hands
Georg Baselitz has been much preoccupied by the subject of hands, old hands, recently. His own hands? The hands of others? The hands drawn and painted by artists of the past? An amalgam of all three perhaps. Hands show off and encapsulate extremities of emotion – think of the reaching index finger of God's hand … Continue reading Georg Baselitz and the Graspability of Hands
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