… and here’s hoping for a peaceful New Year. My December Painting of the Month takes me further back than Christmas and the Nativity to a time when a reluctant young hero accepted what was her duty without fully realising the significance. Oh for such faith and hope! It also takes me back to a…
Category: Painting of the Month
Cézanne’s Forest Floor – My October Painting of the Month
Fake or Fortune, the very popular arts documentary produced by the BBC, and fronted by Phillip Mould and Fiona Bruce, is always a must watch. The programme has successfully revealed the murky world of art in a highly receptive way, flitting as it does between the search for provenance and the detail of forensic study….
Jenny Holzer – September Painting of the Month
Jenny Holzer, born in New York in 1950, is a challenging artist who uses words as her medium. We have seen her work in the Guggenheim in Bilbao, and more recently at MACA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante. Hence my second painting of the month for September. inflammatory Essays, typical of Holzer’s public…
Guernica – A Basque Item or a Universal Symbol – September Painting of the Month
Madrid has some of the finest paintings in Western History to view. We recently visited the Prado and the Modern and Contemporary collection at Reina Sofia. Both were excellent but the painting that stood out for us was Picasso’s Guernica at the latter. Standing in wonderful isolation with two guards on either side it must…
Guernica – A Basque Item or a Universal Symbol – September Painting of the Month
Madrid has some of the finest paintings in Western History to view. We recently visited the Prado and the Modern and Contemporary collection at Reina Sofia. Both were excellent but the painting that stood out for us was Picasso’s Guernica at the latter. Standing in wonderful isolation with two guards on either side it must…
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