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Published in 2008 by Brusberg Berlin, to accompany the exhibition of the same title. John Meyer is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary realists. Born in 1942, Meyer has put his indelible stamp on the genres of landscape, portraiture and narrative art. Meyer became a professional painter in 1972. Since then he has travelled extensively,…
Painter, book illustrator, graphic artist and son of a well-known family, Francois Krige was a reclusive man. Many of his paintings, beautiful and evocative, were discovered after his death and reproduced for the first time in this book.
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was one of the most influential artists of his generation. Though he was hailed as the “greatest living realist painter,” Freud’s commitment to realism, and particularly to the human figure, was often controversial
The Belgian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker René Magritte (1898–1967) was one of the leading figures in the Surrealist movement, producing some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. His trademark flat, inexpressive manner, combining apparently mundane, everyday scenes with elements of the fantastic or erotic, created a disturbing, dreamlike atmosphere that is all his own.
A key figure in a succession of art movements in the early 20th century, Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) was Russia’s most influential avant-garde artist. His style of severe geometric abstraction, which he called “suprematism,” was a precursor to constructivism.
exhibition catalogue of Mark Francis’ show at Interim Art, London, in 1994
exhibition catalogue of Mark Francis’ show at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, in 1997
Over the past few years, British artist Mark Francis has been working on large abstract paintings that due to their repetitive subject matter and the visual solutions he has applied in them can be divided into two equally important and related groups.
In the majority of the works on show, Francis has moved from a landscape scale to a microscopic one. Many of the canvases show objects which are readily identifiable as sperm, spores, ovules or cells. The painting is often almost matter of fact, if not actually photographic. In some cases, the objects are presented on…
Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum’s collection, “Modern Chinese Ink Paintings” features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Hot off the press new release zine, created for the exhibition Movement and its limitation within an environment by artist Quinten Edward Williams. To view the exhibition, click here.
Movement and its limitation within an environment is a visual-spatial presentation which responds to the vibrancy of partaking in an assemblage, and to the ambivalence of living in a borderland. The sketching process employed in the making of the artworks occurs through an interface between painting, sculpting and printing.
Cubism, perhaps the seminal movement for the arts of the twentieth century, was also one of the most complex. Divided between the annual public exhibition and the emerging network of private galleries, between French and immigrant artists, it was
The term `Expressionist’ was initially applied to French modern painting displayed in a Berlin Secession exhibition of 1911. By the time of the First World War; the broader concept of `Expressionism’ permeated German metropolitan culture at many levels. Though lacking stylistic cohesion, the movement was united by a rejection of Impressionism and a search for an inner, essential reality behind the external world of appearances.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is the only Scandinavian painter of modern times to have achieved a world reputation. A tragic childhood – his mother died when he was five and a sister when he was thirteen – wounded him deeply, and much of his early work expresses this in its agonized pessimism.
Published to accompany Naum Gabo’s exhibition of the same title, Constructions For Real Life marks the centenary of the Realistic Manifesto 1920, a set of pioneering artistic principles launched in Moscow by Gabo and his brother Antoine Pevsner. The statement declared that authentically modern art should engage with and reflect the modern age.
Drawing primarily on the complementary collections of Gabo’s work held at Tate and the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, Germany, the exhibition focuses on key themes in his work.
Paint with the Impressionists – A Step-by-step Guide to Their Methods and Materials for Today’s Artists
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