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The Beastliness of Bacon
Bacon was obsessed by animals lifelong. Rawness. Beastliness. Fearsomeness. The way they lived. The way they died. The way they preyed upon each other.
Michael Glover
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What Is the Future of Monuments?
Testament at Goldsmiths College asks: Can any monument be removed of its tarnish?
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How Dürer's Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.
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The Neglected Afterlife of the Great Georges Braque
Braque's paintings speak of self-containment, of a quietly impassioned, ongoing dedication to the task at hand.
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The Great Painter of London's Mayhem
Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top.
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What Constable Sacrificed for His Artistic Success
Sentimentality would creep into the artist's late evocations of remembered childhood scenes, as would idealization.
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The Wild Side of Poussin
Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the artist’s cloak of scholarship and respectability.
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Leon Kossoff’s Art of Darkness and Light
I soon discovered that this gentle, wary, vulnerable man of 75 possessed a will of steel.
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Searching for Frans Hals’s “Laughing Cavalier”
So many of us have seen this painting too often in reproduction, without perhaps ever having really seen it at all.
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Paula Rego’s Raging Women
Rego’s women are always independent spirits, and they are often raging.
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Two Forms of Sculptural Ingenuity
For Eduardo Chillida, a work was a finished thing. Gustav Metzger, on the other hand, would make works that sometimes existed in a state of perpetual evolution.
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JR, Down the Barrel of the Camera
This is a public, political art that invites us to see the world differently, and even encourage the spirit of community.