Politics of patronage
‘The state is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain,’ wrote the Chinese poet Du Fu in the 8th century AD…
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Now that Georgia is independent again — it was annexed by Russia in 1801 and broke free from the Soviet…
View ArticleCharcoal mastery
In his foreword to the catalogue of John Hubbard’s Spirit of Trees, Duncan Robinson, the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum,…
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Liliane Lijn: Stardust Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, London W1, until 5 July Liliane Lijn has always made ‘far-out’ sculpture, innovative,…
View ArticleApotheosis of Caro
Anthony Caro’s Chapel of Light Church of St-Jean-Baptiste, Bourbourg The Barbarians and Clay works Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, until 23…
View ArticleBack to the sublime
Martin Greenland: Arrangements of Memory Art Space Gallery, 84 St Peter’s Street, London N1, until 10 October ‘In Painting there…
View ArticleDeeper into Mervyn Peake
The first two volumes of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy were published in 1946 and 1950, but by 1954, when I…
View ArticleVisual mysteries
Peter Archer used to paint landscapes on the Cornish side of the Tamar river. Their most notable features were lovingly…
View ArticleSmouldering addiction
My addiction to Chinese landscape painting began in 1965 at the V&A, in a travelling exhibition of the Crawford Collection…
View ArticleIn tune with nature
Like most ambitious artists, Julian Cooper has been pulled this way and that by seemingly conflicting influences. The son and…
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