You would think that, as Picasso was such a giant of the 20th century, everything that could have been written about him had been written. Whoever decided to focus the new exhibition at the Royal Academy on Picasso and his use of paper was a genius. With other artists, we might have had a few […]
Dora Maar has perhaps not received the recognition she deserved due to her relationship with Pablo Picasso, one of whose many portraits of her is on show at Tate Modern’s extensive reappraisal of her work, from her change in direction and identity from the artist-painter Henrietta Theodora Markovitch to the photographer Dora Maar in 1932 […]
So, you have commissioned a well-known artist like Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol to do your portrait. A bold decision – are you sure that you will like the result? Lady Churchill famously destroyed a portrait of her husband by Graham Sutherland because she couldn’t stand it. In this era of selfies and digital cameras, […]
By happy coincidence, three generations of Spanish artists are on show in New Bond Street: – the Spanish impressionist, Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923), the master of 20th century modern art, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who was one of the founders of Cubanism, and the contemporary artist Pedro Paricio (born 1982) who has been inspired by Picasso’s work, […]
International collectors are flooding into London, despite the snow and cold, for the auctions of impressionist, modern and contemporary art, with work ranging from Monet and Rodin to Grayson Perry and Banksy, including a preview of the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection to be auctioned for charity later in the year at Christie’s in New […]
He bought well, this European architect-collector whose name we do not know, but who has several works from his collection on show at Christie’s in their Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London, including Leger, Picasso, De Chirico and Morandi. Look carefully; can you tell the architectural links in the paintings through geometry, colour, […]
It’s a dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
Human creativity is linked to lines, whether those first markings on a prehistoric pot or a cave wall, the perspective of the columns of the Greek Parthenon, the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the musical scores of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the distorted shapes in a sketch by Picasso or the optical forms in a painting […]
The NSU Art Museum has three major exhibitions running alongside each other. The first shows a selection of 20th century works by artists from Mexico from the collections of Jacques and Natasha Gelman and of Stanley and Pearl Goodman, the latter of whom have recently donated more than 75 works by modern Latin American artists […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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