One of the joys of the many galleries in London with their varied exhibitions, before and after coronavirus closures, is being able to see the work of two near-contemporaries and wonder why their work is so different and why they have such different artistic views of the world? No doubt art aficionados do that all […]
Sometimes modern art defeats me. Recently on show at the White Cube Gallery in St James’s were abstract sculptural paintings by the Belgian Artist Bram Bogart (1921-2012), almost an exact contemporary of my mother, but she would have not understood Bogart’s art at all. Seen previously at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017 with a theme […]
When I was a young architect, I had a project in one of our national galleries to create a setting for renaissance paintings that would be reminiscent of the rough church plaster of Italian buildings of the time, following a request from the curator. Have you ever tried to persuade a plasterer, painter and decorator that you […]
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