Tag: mythology
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Agata Słowak: Time Is Love
Identity and sexuality are explored in the young Polish artist’s powerful and controversial paintings, in which the female nude is often the central focus
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Nneka Uzoigwe – interview: ‘I find plein air painting extraordinary because there’s so much information to capture and there are so many elements’
The artist talks about her residency at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village responding to the work of Henry Scott Tuke – both his plein air paintings of boys on the beach, but also his interest in mythology
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In the Land of the Gods. Marc Chagall and the Greek World
This colourful exhibition explores the influences of the Hellenic world and its Bacchanalian myths on the Jewish artist of folklore, circus, and biblical tales
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‘Oswaldo Vigas said he found the root of his work in ancient culture’
At an exhibition of Oswaldo Vigas’s work in Bogotá, his son Lorenzo talked about his father’s love of people, how mythology and witchcraft shaped his output, and his friendship with Picasso
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Celtic Vision
John Bellany: A Scottish Odyssey Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg 16 June-3 September 2006 John Bellany’s (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced in Britain in recent history. Layered with references to the Expressionistic tradition in art (Bosch, Breughel,…
