Caravaggio‘s tightly cropped scenes and dramatic lighting are cinematic catmint, influencing many film makers including Derek Jarman and Martin Scorsese. The Last Caravaggio, a recent exhibition at the National Gallery in London, showed “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, his last painting, dated 1610. A very dark, almost monochrome piece, it captures the moment the arrow […]
Artists
The Meddling Fiend by Nicola Turner
It’s the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy where you can see one of the most interesting pieces for free in the Annenberg Courtyard, just off Piccadilly. Sculptor Nicola Turner has created “The Meddling Fiend” after studying works by Joshua Reynolds, the Academy’s first President whose statue stands at the entrance. Made of a range […]
Fathi Hassan: I can see you smiling Fatma at Richard Saltoun Gallery
This was Fathi Hassan‘s first solo show at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London and is dedicated to his mother. Hassan was born in Egypt in 1957 to Nubian and Egyptian parents. The family had been forced to leave their home due to the building of the Aswan Dam in 1952. Now based in Edinburgh, his […]
Sargent & Fashion at Tate Britain
Sargent & Fashion, currently on at Tate Britain, connects the artist’s paintings with some of the garments used in his pictures. If you wanted a portrait in the late 19th – early 20th century in Europe or the USA you really couldn’t go wrong with John Singer Sargent – there was no-one quite like him […]
Richard Serra drawings at David Zwirner.
David Zwirner held this exhibition of six drawings by Richard Serra which I managed to catch just before it closed. “My whole drawing practice is involved with repetition, knowing there’s no possibility of repeating, knowing that it’s going to yield something different every time.” —Richard Serra in Conversations About Sculpture, 2018 Pigment is mashed up with […]
Michelangelo: the last decades at the British Museum
Packed with information, this exhibition Michelangelo: the last decades currently on at the British Museum, covers the final 30 years of the artist’s life. As usual I’ll only focus on a very few pieces. You can see a projection of The Last Judgement, a huge fresco (13.7 x 12 metres) on the alter wall of […]