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...In Peter Blake’s warm, comic portrayal, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis, aged 86, stands in denim shorts and stretches his arms out in greeting....
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...“I’m a huge fan, and would always ensure my whole team stayed at her hotel, Blakes, whenever we were in London. I remember we’d go to each other’s rooms just to look at the décor.”...
...One joke of that painting is that Blake, a natural narrator, is the least theoretical of artists....
...One is decked out in a red turban and an embroidered bust of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, another in Rasta canopy hat and William Blake’s print of a tortured slave....
...Blake’s “Beatrice and Dante”, illustrating “Paradiso”, emphasises the erotic in divine revelation....
...Blake’s illustrations are well-known, but Dalí’s are not — perhaps because they challenge common preconceptions about him....
...Artists, as Blake wrote of Milton, tend to be “of the Devils’ party without knowing it”. Sin, more fun to depict than virtue, offers scope for painterly ambivalence....
...The display begins with Bewick, William Blake and Samuel Palmer, who saw in Blake’s engravings “visions of little dells, and nooks, and corners of Paradise” unveiling “the soul of beauty through the forms...
...A 17-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after two people were killed near protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake Jr....
...His later works, such as the four-metre crouching bronze figure constructed from mechanical-looking fragments, “Newton (after William Blake)”, which presides over the British Library concourse, are hideous...
...“Most of what we know about Roman London has come out of redevelopment,” says Jackie Keily, of the Museum of London, “from the archaeology that takes place after a building is knocked down and before the...
...Look out for FT art critic Jackie Wullschlager’s review of this, and Philip Guston, in Life & Arts on Saturday May 13....
...020 7495 6855, from Tuesday to September 12 Artists and Music, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames How music influenced modern British painters including Stanley Spencer, Ceri Richards, Terry Frost, Peter Blake...
...Blake’s “Kamikaze” (1965) — a painting-collage featuring a toy Japanese airplane, knitted mask, photographs of pilots — demonstrates how the artist utilises his vast repository in a garrulous oeuvre that...
...These were already heralded in the visions the teenage Blake experienced in Westminster Abbey....
...Fraser, launched with monochrome Dubuffet paintings in an all-white interior, gave Gilbert and George their first show, was fined 20 guineas for exhibiting “depraved” works by Jim Dine, and introduced Peter Blake...
...shower created with graphene, a material fabricated by Nobel-winning Manchester scientists Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov, from microscopic graphite samples out of art works including William Blake...
...luxembourgdayan.com 020 7734 1266 to August 16 … Quentin Blake: Inside Stories, House of Illustration, London The inaugural show of the world’s first public gallery dedicated to illustration focuses...
...In Quentin Blake: Artists on the Beach, the popular illustrator displays drawings made in response to favourite works in the Jerwood collection by Stanley Spencer, Christopher Wood, LS Lowry and others....
...This is the milieu satirised yet embraced by Hamilton and Pop colleagues Eduardo Paolozzi, represented by several collages, and Peter Blake....
...Kitaj, essentially a history painter, in collages of consumer and news images, “Vibration” – and others who remained pop artists to the core: Peter Blake and Allen Jones, whose semi-nude fibreglass dummies...
...Contemporaneously, William Blake’s “Triple Hecate” and “Whore of Babylon” castigated the hypocrisy and moral turpitude of 1790s London; two centuries later Paula Rego’s witches are as charged with pathos...
...Jackie Wullschlager Architecture African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence, edited by Manuel Herz, Park Books, RRP€68 Documenting the grand, optimistic architecture of the post-independence...
...These paintings announce Spencer, like Nash, as a visionary in an English tradition – Samuel Palmer, William Blake – able to negotiate with the European avant-garde enough to get modernist distance, without...
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