Tag: Van Dyck

Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

Despite once saying he was sick of portraits, he was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his day and looking at the irresistible paintings in this delightful show it is easy to see why
Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’

Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck

The National Gallery sheds light on the personalities of some of the biggest names in painting, not through their work, but through the art that they collected
Rewinding personalities: Van Dyck at Tate Britain

The short journey from the British Museum down to Tate Britain is currently a rewarding trip. The British Museum gives us, with the exhibition dedicated to Shah Abbas, the early 17th century unifier of Iran, a clear comparison as to…
To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!

RUSSIA!, The Guggenheim Museum, New York 16 September 2005-11 January 2006 Russia is not accessible to reason and cannot be measured with a yardstick; Russia is a special country that can only be taken on faith. Fedor Tyutchev (1803-73) The…