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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth
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SELF DOUBTS OF A RELENTLESS PERFECTIONIST
The similarity in the approaches to landscape taken by the geographer and the landscape painter have been acknowledged since the first half of the nineteenth century. Both are committed to developing coherent descriptions of he surface of the earth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lyles, David Watts, J.T. Smith, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, K. Paul Johnson, London Royal Academy of Arts, Marion Maneker, Martin Gayford, Michael Kitson, Monty English, Paul Johnson, Peter Paul Rubens, Roger Fry, Ronald Rees, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Wordsworth
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CONSIGNED TO OBLIVION
Art in Limbo. Like lost packages at the post office without a return address. Metaphorically, on the bottom of the ocean in Davy Jones locker. Painters without a name, art without a number. Every generation of art has its casualties … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, American Art, Andrew Wyeth, Ben Shahn, Edward Hopper, Fortune Magazine, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Judas Iscariot, Justin Fox, London Royal Academy of Arts, Raphael Soyer, Robert Heilbroner, Robert Hughes, Social realism, Solzenitsyn, Walter Stuemphig, willem de Kooning
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Theatre of the Glutinous
Various supersized reflective creations, unusual installations and jumbo sculptures are featured in a retrospective exhibit of Indian born artist Anish Kapoor which opens this week at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. A highlight is a sculpture of a vintage cannon … Continue reading
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