Tag: trompe l’oeil
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Alison Watt – interview: ‘I have spent my whole life working from life, so to work from death was a different experience’
The Scottish artist’s astounding trompe l’oeil still lifes of artefacts inspired by the life and times of Sir John Soane integrate into the architecture of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, creating an engaging 18th-century Gesamtkunstwerk
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Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury
For the first time, the “unpindownable” Carrington is defined in terms of her own person and her art, not her male lovers
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Alastair Gordon – interview: ‘For me, painting and faith are very much intertwined, like the warp and weft of a tapestry’
Gordon talks about the impact lockdown had on his recent paintings, now on show at Aleph Contemporary in London, and his new book, Why Art Matters, which reflects on art seen through the lens of his Christian faith
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Jason Brooks: ‘In a world that wants to eradicate detail by airbrushing it out, I’m interested in airbrushing it in’
Ahead of his exhibition at Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks showed Studio International around his Gloucestershire studio, revealing some of his inspirations and motivations
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Magritte’s Lonely Art
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 28 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
