I wonder if Eduardo Paolozzi and Paula Rego ever met. They were born only eleven years apart, Paolozzi in Leith (in 1924), Edinburgh, of Italian parents, and Rego in Lisbon Portugal in1935. Both brought new bold, but different, dynamics into British art, Paolozzi’s work being very masculine and Rego’s focussed on feminist themes. What discussions […]
Twisting, curving, sculptural abstractions made from steel. If you look through the rooflights of the 4th floor gallery of the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery in Mayfair, you can make out the silhouette of the crane which lifts art from the street below and drops it (carefully) into the gallery below; they definitely needed it […]
Bernard Leach arrived in the old fishing town of St Ives in Cornwall along with Shoji Hamada in 1920 – astonishingly almost 100 years ago. He was in the vanguard of artists who established St Ives as a centre for British modern art from the 1920′s onwards, strengthened when Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum […]
Celebrating the best collections of British modern art: Sussex comes to London. In 1916, the Bloomsbury Group established an outpost in Sussex when Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to Charleston near Lewes, with Virginia Woolf and her husband taking over the nearby Monk’s House in 1919 and, a little later, Lee Miller and Roland […]
When visiting these two exhibitions at Tate Britain, it is best to see the Paul Nash first and then the David Hockney. Not only is it the best way chronologically, but also emotionally: Nash’s work is sombre and the colours muted; Hockney’s is vibrant and alive, pushing at the boundaries of artistic technology, finishing on a […]
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