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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Max Roesberg, the owner of an engineering firm in Dresden, stands behind his desk returning the gaze of the viewer from the corners of his eyes. His face juts forward from his ramrod-straight neck which looks as if it might swivel within his wing collar like a periscope. He … Read more
London, Tate Britain In November1828 Constable’s beloved wife Maria died. Theirs had been a difficult courtship — for many years the disapproval of her parents had precluded any meaningful relationship; they were reduced to clandestine meetings, filling in the gaps as best they could with correspondence. The death of Constable’s father in 1816 resulted in … Read more
London: Tate Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had already become a success in Britain when, late in 1963, he arrived in Los Angeles, a city which had fascinated him for a long time. ‘Within a week of arriving there in this strange big city, not knowing a soul, I’d passed the driving test, … Read more
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art From the other side of the street we look, straight at an unremarkable row of shops. Above the store fronts windows stare blindly back, curtains drawn against an implacable early light. A cloudless sky, perhaps betraying the remnants of some mist, presides over the terrace. The just-risen sun … Read more
London, National Gallery This astonishing canvas executed on a truly monumental scale dominates the room even though it is one of the largest rooms in the National Gallery and despite the fact that it contains some of the greatest and best loved works of British art. Standing in front of this magnificent beast makes you … Read more
New York, The Frick Collection In Fanny Burney’s bestselling novel, “Evelina, the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World” (1778), the innocent young heroine loses her way in a public pleasure garden and finds herself in the compromising company of ladies of the night. Gainsborough’s London was full of such ambiguous social situations. … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art In 1910 Moishe Segal (or Mark Shagal to use his Russified name) left the Belarusian town of Vitebsk and arrived in Paris, the undisputed capital of the art world. The city was a crucible of creativity, witnessing at that time an extraordinary explosion of innovation. The Fauves led by Matisse and … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art ‘Modern art, spreads joy around it by its colour, which calms us’. – Matisse In 1909, Matisse, feeling financially flush thanks to a new patron, created a studio for himself near Paris. The actual studio was white but in this painting the artist depicts it as a field of … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art Like many of his contemporaries, Rousseau was fascinated by the exotic and foreign. The late 19th century was a time of colonial expansion and information about the world beyond France became part of popular culture. Rousseau read adventure and travel books and visited colonial exhibitions that presented people and … Read more
New York, Museum of Modern Art While visiting Munich in 1903 Kirchner saw an exhibition of Post-Impressionist paintings which had been mounted by a group (The Phalanx) led by Vasily Kandinsky. The work of Paul Signac, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others, which he saw at this Munich exhibition, had a profound effect on Kirchner, … Read more