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...And in Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” (1656), the viewer is placed in the shoes of the king and queen of Spain, visible in a mirror, while they are being painted by Velázquez himself, thereby blowing the mind...
...It was an extraordinary luxury to spend time alone with Bosch, Titian, Velázquez or Goya....
...David Hockney’s current show (to January 21) is pure joy. 2....
...He is proudest of his (free-to-enter) museum, however, and particularly that its architect David Chipperfield was in May this year awarded a Pritzker prize, his profession’s most prestigious honour....
...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...Europe had the same allegiance of genius to power: Titian and Velázquez painted the Habsburgs, Goya the Bourbons....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is the 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez....
...Next, he shows me a series of smudged, ominous portraits created by an AI model that he trained on paintings by Velázquez and Rembrandt....
...with geopolitical blackmail from its sole supplier, Russia’s Gazprom, Moldova might have been hoping for more than just €60m in emergency cash from its friends in the EU, write Henry Foy in Brussels and David...
...Of his “Bigger Splash”, David Hockney said: “It’s a memorable picture but you don’t know you’re doing them because there’s no formula. If there was a formula there’d be a lot more memorable pictures.”...
...Nydia Velázquez, a New York Democrat, said she was glad the letter, which she led, “did not go unheeded” and that while lawmakers had not seen specific proposals, she appreciated the industry’s “desire to...
...Being exactly 40 years older, to improve his photography I would advise Mr Petitt to study the great masters and mistresses of Art for their composition and genius — Diego Velázquez, Mary Cassatt, JMW Turner...
...Among his pantheon are Rembrandt, Velázquez, Monet and Van Gogh (“deep colour straight out of the tube”), but “there’s always been Turner”....
...But where are David Hockney’s iconic portraits charting changing attitudes to sex, class, fashion, such as Tate’s “Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy”?...
...Mary Beard did not criticise the “Boxer at Rest” but praised it to the skies, and our co-presenter is not Henry Olusoga but David. I could go on....
...Velázquez’s cool, forthright, austerely elegant “Don Pedro de Barberana” (1633) masterfully evokes Madrid’s severe, formal Habsburg milieu....
...The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez, by Laura Cumming, Chatto, RRP£18.99 I read this at one go: a gripping triple narrative spinning from the Spanish Habsburg courts to 19th-century Edinburgh and...
...Also Velázquez, Delacroix and even modest yet exquisite Chardin. But has any Poussin ever given us the shiver of mystery that is the mark of great art?...
...It would certainly be much more chic than a figurative Velázquez. Mind you, for dwarfs, I suggest a figure by El Greco, which would offer an optical elongation....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...Roses, yet again, were superb and in several gardens I noted how good the recently bred David Austin English roses are as climbers on walls....
...Photographs and text ©David Dawson 2014....
...I really like Velázquez but the positions are up and down: Velázquez looks down [as if to say], ‘You’re just shit.’...
...After National Service, at Borough Polytechnic “walking into David Bomberg’s class was like coming home. He gave me confidence....
...What followed over the next 20 years – and it’s worth emphasising just how lengthily sustained the obsession was – was a protracted tussle with the past masters: Velázquez, Manet, Cranach, Poussin, David...
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