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...The first 13 small untitled pieces, coiling, sensual, anthropomorphic, recall figures interchangeable with water on Bernini’s fountains....
...A fountain plays at their centre, while the women picnic in the foreground....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Rome On your first visit to Rome, you will doubtless feel the need to jostle with the masses at the heavy-hitters — the Colosseum, the Forum, the Trevi Fountain...
...Lamps cascade from trees, candles flicker in mid-air, abstract neon flowers sprout, the Temperate House is a fiery cathedral, LED lights skim the lake and multicoloured fountains illuminate the Palm House...
...I have a lot of art: I particularly love my 1919 painting of Winston Churchill by Eduardo Arroyo, one of the new realist Spanish painters. In front of it is the Joker’s desk from the 1989 Batman film....
...South African-born artist Conor Mccreedy, famed for gestural paintings in his signature blue, has transformed Piega’s stately MLS 2 Gen2 speakers into an astonishing artwork featuring chaotic painting, poetry...
...Across the two spaces over 30 works of sculpture, photography, painting and embroidery are beautifully juxtaposed with Soane’s domestic spaces. Curated by Maya Binkin. On until January 7....
...But even more important is the trickle of water that winds down mossy rocaille into a fountain fed by a still-operative Roman hydraulics system....
...A tremendous baroque fountain, topped by Europa riding a bull, comes inkily into being. A figure anticipating Rego’s “Dog Woman”, a nude crouching on all fours, pours down a wall....
...He didn’t seem sure whether it was drinkable water, but he promised in-car water fountains to the public anyway: It was indeed creative, as his legal team points out in their filing: Despite his creative...
...In 2004, a group of 500 artists and curators voted Duchamp’s urinal “Fountain” the most influential modern artwork. Duchamp and Picasso were not just formal opposites....
...It’s also kind of shaped like a board,” says Alex Israel of the cavernous oval volume that is Gagosian’s Rome outpost, a former bank just north of the Trevi Fountain....
...The ability to capture mass experience and collective memory was photography’s winning streak over painting in the golden mid-20th century....
...In the centre of the canvas is a large shallow pool with a small narrow fountain in the middle. The left side of the painting is filled with old women....
...With wood panelling and gilt-framed paintings, The Charterhouse holds obvious appeal as a filming location and wedding venue, both of which help fund the charity....
...There was hardly any electricity, no plastic, and clothes were washed in the fountain at the bottom of the hill....
...After the show, he asked: “How do you make a painting come to life so you can move inside it?...
...Described as a “wine fountain”, Shifting Sands is made using sand that had been recently excavated from the castle’s grounds for the creation of a train tunnel....
...“My book is a painting,” Proust said....
...Courtauld as “the most wonderful painting in existence”....
...There won’t be an absinthe fountain at this bar in the Marais, says Savage, but there will be plenty of anise-y pastis....
...He summarised the situation by saying: “We’re painting a mural on the side of a building, and all kinds of stuff is falling off.”...
...No one has surpassed it in terms of elegance, site, the beautiful fountains on the pink granite plaza, the gold ceramic tile detailing. I also like the Barcelona Pavilion – same guy....
...More within my budget is the vase from Longwy, which isn’t so much a vase as a fabulous sculpture in the shape of a fountain (est £200-£300)....
...It softens and diffuses sunlight, so that a view of the city from a Silver Lake terrace or a Koreatown rooftop is more Impressionist painting than photograph....
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