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Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry
It was snowing heavily as we made our way from Highbury Corner to the Estorick Collection Gallery. London looked different, with colours drained to monochrome whites, blacks and greys. We were about...
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The Northern Renaissance: from Durer to Holbein
In London for a couple of days last week, I knew that I had to see the exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery - The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein. The Renaissance art of Northern Europe emerged...
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The Massacre of the Innocents (redacted)
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and...
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Constable’s oil sketches: atmosphere and light
John Constable perhaps suffers from over-familiarity: countless reproductions, from postcards to biscuit tins, of The Hay Wain or Dedham Vale. Those large, highly polished oil paintings were produced...
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Kurt Jackson’s sketchbooks: the soul of a place
In my previous post, writing about John Constable’s oil sketches, I noted how he would make meticulous notes of the weather conditions at the time he painted. I remarked that this reminded me of Kurt...
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Light Show: what is real and what is not
In London last week, we went to see Light Show at the Hayward Gallery, an exhibition that both delights the senses and stimulates the mind with questions about perception and the connections between...
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Looking at the View: ‘take the small voyage out to the horizon and back again’
Visiting Tate Britain last week we found that the painters and decorators were in and rooms closed – there’s a major re-hang going on that will be completed in May, with the promised result that we...
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Ice Age art: like a foal that can walk straight away
They lived by hunting and gathering nuts, berries and seeds, moving across the tundra south of the fluctuating ice cap for tens of thousands of years, following established seasonal cycles. Their...
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An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street: a hymn to the book and the word
Poet Ahmed Abdel Sara recites a poem as part of a protest by artists and writers against the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street Built to enshrine free thinking and public access to knowledge, the John...
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John Piper: the shape and tilt of rocks
Our main purpose in popping over to Manchester last week was to see the John Piper exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery. Piper is an artist whose work I admire, but I have to admit that this exhibition...
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Audubon, the Rathbones and Greenbank House
On Tuesday morning, at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, having been liberated from the cumbersome boot I had been obliged to wear after breaking my ankle on Capri, I walked – a little unsteadily at first...
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Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure
Passing through London on the way to Brussels for a few days that were to be focussed on 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish art, it seemed appropriate to visit the National Gallery to see the...
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In pursuit of Bruegel in Brussels and Antwerp
For a while now we have had the idea of pursuing Pieter Bruegel by visiting cities where his works are exhibited – particularly Brussels, Antwerp and Vienna. We were inspired by Robert L Bonn’s,...
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Picasso in Bruges?
Wandering around Bruges in July, we spotted a poster advertising an improbable-sounding art exhibition: Picasso in Bruges. We were strolling through the courtyard of Oud Sint Jan, Old St. John’s...
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Moretus, Rubens and Rockox: three men, three houses from Antwerp’s Golden Age
On 1 July 1589 at three o’clock in the morning at his house on the Vrijdagmarkt, Christophe Plantin, Antwerp printer, breathed his last, bring to an end an illustrious career. At his bedside would...
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Museum Hours: random details of the everyday
About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along - WH...
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Kyffin Williams in Venice: drawn to the light
There’s a gem of an art gallery on Anglesey: visitors to the island who spare a little time from the beach or trail, or who pause and take a turn off the A55 before hurtling on for the ferry at...
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Charles Tunnicliffe at Oriel Ynys Mon: ‘the love of nature absorbed him’
In my last post I wrote of our visit to Oriel Ynys Mon on Anglesey to see the exhibition of paintings of Venice by Kyffin Williams. It was the second time I’d been to the gallery and on both occasions...
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Chagall: Modern Master at Liverpool Tate
‘When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is’ - Pablo Picasso Well, yes: colour, but also a deep sense of spirituality, of his Jewish heritage and the...
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Matisse in Nice: through an open window
We arrived in Nice for a long weekend to celebrate my birthday just as a summer-long tribute to Matisse was drawing to a close. Nice 2013: A Summer for Matisse brought together many of the city...
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