Tag: Franco

Manolo Valdés: ‘I only like apples if they look like Cezanne’s apples!’

Like a magpie, taking fragments from works of art that he loves and reinterpreting them in new paintings on burlap or as sculptures, Valdés is always on the look out for inspiration. He explains how his entire world is seen…
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…