Tag: drawing
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Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting
The 170 drawings, etchings and paintings on show here not only lend insight into Freud’s working, but demonstrate how acute observation and prolonged time spent with sitters brings a sympathetic understanding of character
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Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
The Royal Academy’s new exhibition reveals the mighty French novelist as a fascinating, ever-experimental artist
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Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c1504
Set in Florence at the turn of the 16th century, this exhibition is a portrait of drawing, every bit as much as it is a lively tale of three renowned artists
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Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
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Sara Reisman – interview: ‘This was an opportunity to engage with contemporary issues that interest our members and to work with artists and architects from the larger art community’
Sara Reisman, chief curator at the National Academy of Design, talks about the institution’s 200-year history and its aims for the future, and picks out some favourites from its current show, Drawing as Practice
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Eileen Cooper – interview: ‘I’d always avoided looking back … but it’s been fascinating’
As an exhibition of her previously unseen early works on paper opens at Huxley-Parlour in London, Cooper talks about the importance of drawing, the women’s movement, and the relevance of these particular intimate images to the development of her style…
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Mike Parr – interview: ‘I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently’
One of Australia’s most influential artists, Parr talks about his extreme performance art, how the death of his brother has affected his work, and why Joseph Beuys’s drawings have been a constant touchstone
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Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings and Watercolours
Tender portraits and works inspired by nature, art and poetry fill this beautiful and intimate show
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Karen Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976-1998
Sprüth Magers takes us on a whistle-stop tour through the American artist’s early drawings, pulling us into a unique imaginative world
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Matthew Wong: Footsteps in the Wind, Ink Drawings 2013-2017
This riveting exhibition of 24 of Wong’s ink drawings takes us deep into the complex, and unsettling oeuvre of the artist, whose tragic death lends additional intensity to the show
