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...“One couldn’t write a bestseller about Rah-file,” drawled the art historian Kenneth Clark, in a dig not at the painter, but at our own demand for inner torment and outer conflict in our heroes....
...Thanks to Monet, the British art historian Kenneth Clark said, “every day we pause with joy before some effect of light which we should otherwise have passed without notice”....
...“If you brought a Renaissance painter into this space, they would feel at home.” Such preservation and protection have been the lifeblood of the gallery for nearly 200 years....
...She exchanged it for a Renoir, and it was eventually acquired by British art historian and museum director, Kenneth Clark....
...He brings pieces by Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick, a Kenneth Nolan Diamond painting and a Braque from 1925, plus works by Rodin, Lipchitz, Laurens and a Gauguin bronze....
...ENB already has two of the finest Rites — by Kenneth MacMillan and Pina Bausch — both of which adhere to the notion of tribal sacrifice encoded in the score....
...Thus there are paintings by British artists such as Morley Bury, Bruce Lacey, Kenneth Rowntree and Ivon Hitchens. They reveal a long family history of collecting. “It’s a horrible strain,” says Adrian....
...The war was the “enemy of creative activity” and writers and painters were wise to concentrate their talent elsewhere....
...The risk of catching Covid-19, he says, has meant he has had to turn down a role in a film with Kenneth Branagh (“one of my favourite actors”)....
...In the book, there are paintings of his circle of smart, creative friends, which has included the writers Kenneth Koch and Frank O’Hara, painter Fairfield Porter and dancers/choreographers Yvonne Rainer...
...Johann Koenig zones in on the living German painter Karl Horst Hödicke, who has had increasing institutional and auction interest (€26,500-€66,500)....
...Particularly poignant is Tracy Tynan’s account of an imaginary visit by her theatre-critic father Kenneth Tynan....
...Is the Middle Ages waning or is it segueing into Renaissance delight in realism when a painter is depicted at his easel with five nude models in the illuminated “Roman de la Rose” (1500)?...
...Half a century ago, in 1968, Kenneth Clark was in Paris, standing in front of the BBC cameras, asking, “What is civilisation?...
...“I don’t think I was a very natural painter. I always tried to fit way too much into a painting.” But in video, “you’ve got more room”....
...Enwonwu worked in a variety of forms as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman, and his output was astonishing....
...Were the blusterers to pay any attention, they would see that the series is in fact packed with western masterpieces including Spanish painters like Velázquez and Goya, whom Kenneth Clark mysteriously ignored...
...The nude had not been a prominent subject in Impressionist Paris, but after 1900, writes Kenneth Clark, “when art was once more concerned with concepts rather than sensations, the nude was the first concept...
...He insisted, then and throughout his long life, that art’s subjects should not be simply a matter for gazing but for inquiring into the hidden attitudes of the painter and the times: and the depiction, often...
...She is, after all, the painter who once said: “You know what I enjoy almost the most of anything? Dividing up the canvas.”...
...Kenneth Clark hailed them as “the greatest thing in English art” (estimate £12m-£16m). Scale and the luscious physicality of paint are the trademarks of former YBA Jenny Saville....
...These included Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, though it took him a year to feel sure about Stella....
...In that novel, Freya was a poised and watchful 12-year-old, the daughter of a highly regarded painter; now she’s a rebellious adult....
...The movement burst into life in the US in the 1960s, when liberals, such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Martin Luther King, emerged as vocal champions....
...So said the art historian Kenneth Clark, and I think Simon Schama would probably agree with him....
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