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CEZANNE’S CARD PLAYERS – A STUDY IN MONUMENTALITY Cézanne rarely engaged with genre painting – depictions of everyday life where figures are presented as generic types, not as portraits of named individuals. But with his series of Card Players and their associated studies, he spent around six years in the 1890s studying and developing this […]
CAMILLE SILVY – PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE VICTORIAN AGE Camille Silvy – Frenchman, diplomat and war hero – yet only now is he receiving the recognition he deserves for his main achievement in life: as a brilliant and early pioneer of the portrait photograph in 19th century London. The exhibition – Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern […]
FREDERICK CAYLEY ROBINSON: ACTS OF MERCY Frederick Cayley Robinson was, among other things, a Symbolist painter, a theatre set designer and book illustrator. But he is now most famous for his series of paintings called Acts of Mercy which are the subject of a new exhibition at London’s National Gallery. The gallery goes so far […]
George V, known as the ‘Philatelist King’, came to the throne one hundred years ago, and to mark the centenary, the British Postal Museum and Archive (BPMA) is staging a major exhibition at the City of London’s Guildhall Gallery called Empire Mail: George V and the GPO. It is part of London 2010:Festival of Stamps, […]
Why would two prehistoric cultures thousands of miles apart and which were never in contact make almost identical clay figurines? And why do they resonate with us thousands of years later? These are just two of the fascinating questions unearthed, an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at Norwich University, attempts to answer. […]
When Fiona Adams returned to London in the early 60s she realised there was a new mood in the air and a youthful spirit inspiring music, fashion and the arts. She quickly tapped into this and created some of the most famous and lasting images of the era with a style which seemed to typify […]