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Category Archives: Art display
The Frederiksborg Castle paintings by Christen Købke
The featured painter in my next two blogs is the Danish artist, Christen Købke, who lived in Denmark in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period which was to become known as den danske guldalder (the Danish Golden … Continue reading
Paul Delvaux’s Sleeping Venus
In my last blog I looked at the life of André Masson, the French-born Belgian Surrealist and one of his paintings, which in some ways mirrored the physical and mental suffering he had to endure for most of his life. … Continue reading
Gradiva by André Masson
After my last two blogs looking at the exquisite artistry of the American landscape painter, Frederic Church, I am going to give you something completely different today. I was going to facetiously say that I was moving from the sublime … Continue reading
Figure at a Window by Dali (1925) and Young Virgin Autosodomized by her Own Chastity by Dali (1954)
My blog today looks at two paintings by the same artist, completed twenty-nine years apart. There is an obvious a similarity about the works and yet they could not be more different. As a non-painter, it is this difference in … Continue reading
Victorine Meurent
The painting above, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday, is unique in as much as it is the only surviving painting by my featured artist. It was recovered in 2004 and can now be found hanging in the local museum of Colombes, … Continue reading
Kees van Dongen, his life, his family and his art
Last Thursday I embarked on my monthly pilgrimage to London to visit a couple of art galleries and take a look at two new art exhibitions and it was during those visits that I found a few paintings which I … Continue reading
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Zinaida Serebriakova – Part 2.
My blog today continues with a look at the life of the Russian painter, Zinaida Serebriakova. At the end of my last entry I told you that she and her family’s life had been turned upside down by the onset … Continue reading
Zinaida Serebriakova. Part 1
One of the most pleasing aspects of this blog for me is discovering artists I had never heard of before. It is an even greater pleasure when the “new-to-me” artist is a female for I am often made aware in … Continue reading
I and the Village and The Birthday by Marc Chagall
Having just completed my four part look at the quartet of Scottish Colourists I am turning to a painter from the same era but one who could not be more different in style. For my blog today I want to … Continue reading
