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Painting of the Week: 62
Julie Mehretu, Dispersion, 2002, ink and acrylic on canvas, 228.6 x 365.8 cm, Williams College Museum of Art. Julie Mehretu will change your perspective. Like stepping on to a disintegrating ice floe,...
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David Jones (1895-1974), Mehefin, 1949, watercolour, bodycolour and pencil on paper, Estate of David Jones. David Jones’s watercolour scenes are like illustrations for unwritten stories shot through...
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Painting of the Week: 78
Jan Weenix II (between 1640/1649 – 19 September 1719 (buried)), Falconer’s Bag, 1695 , 134 x 111.1 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Weenix’s name may rhyme with phoenix but these birds will not rise...
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Painting of the Week: 84
Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979), Winter Stage, 1936, oil on canvas, 59.1 x 155.6 cm, Tate. The eye is broadened and deepened by gazing on a silence like this. In Welsh there are two words for silence,...
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Painting of the Week: 87
Mark Stebbins, Glitch-alike 3, 2012, acrylic paint/ink on panel, 30.48 x 40.64, private collection. In his artist’s statement Mr Stebbins says that he wants to depict images that exhibit ‘a refusal to...
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Painting of the Week: 88
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Garden behind a House, 65 x 54 cm, Arles, 8 August 1888, Private collection. Summer bustles through this garden, the heat is palpable from the darkness of the shadows in...
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Painting of the Week: 97
Alan Davie (1920-2014), Studies for a Figure – Mask No.14 , gouache on paper, c. 1975, 59.5 x 84cm, Harrogate. Alan Davie’s expialidocious canvases are joyous like the mad light of an outsider artist...
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Painting of the Week: 98
Peter Prendergast (1946-2007), Deiniolen, acrylic on paper, 54.5 x 75 cm, 1998, illustrated in the book The Art of Peter Prendergast, RCA. Peter Prendergast is known for his throbbing landscapes that...
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Painting of the Week: 103
Derek Jarman, Avebury Series No.4, 1973. Northampton Museums & Art Gallery. In reality Avebury is a colourful jumble of lichens and hypotheses, half disassembled ceremonial wonderment thrust into...
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Painting of the Week: 104
Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), End of the Day, Jávea, 1900, oil on canvas, 88 x 128 cm, Private collection. Joaquín Sorolla was one of the greatest natural painters of his generation. Prolific and...
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