Hints and tips:
...Ponti fans will find two new Gio Ponti re-editions unveiled, but there are also brand-new concepts from Vincent Van Duysen (who has been somewhat prolific this year)....
...Van Dyck’s beaming, corpulent magistrate “Justus van Meerstraeten” leans back confidently, hand resting on his book-piled desk....
...This was painted less than three weeks before Van Gogh died....
...I have Mies van der Rohe and Hans Wegner chairs; architects often like uniformity but I like to experiment with different styles....
...Botticelli to Van Gogh, the gallery’s tour to Shanghai Museum in 2023, was its best-attended special exhibition ever — 420,000 visitors....
...Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Musée d’Orsay, Paris (to February 4) What a year for Dutch art: this too is an unprecedented, once-in-a-generation show....
...Her portrait of doomed attachment to a moody, emotionally inexpressive man is the flipside to “London Boy” from 2019’s Lover, the most enjoyably hokey piece of Londoniana since Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent...
...Or the warm, jovial glance of weatherworn seafarer Pieter van den Broecke, painted with a sketchy informality belying his status....
...Van Gogh’s watercolour/chalk “Fortifications of Paris with Houses” (1887) is a bright, simplified summer cityscape influenced by the flat, bold compositions of Japanese prints, and “Thistles by the Roadside...
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...Children of John Julius Angerstein”, Reynolds turns up the historic allusions — the boy’s pose is based on the “Seated Hermes” bronze at Herculaneum, the sumptuous palette and lighting derive from Rubens and Van...
...The catalogue introducing the unknown “Van der Meer of Delft” to museum audiences in 1866 carried on its cover a picture which, it turned out later, was not by Vermeer at all: it was the work of a Dutch...
...As Van Valkenburgh surmised: “I would question at that point why we even have crypto....
...It shapes the opening gallery, Exiles and Dynasties, tracing how émigré artists, led by Van Dyck — his satiny extravaganza “A Lady of the Spencer Family”, attended by a spaniel darting off to chase a lizard...
...Van Gogh, studying Monet’s sinuous comma strokes and liberated colour in 1886-88, would assimilate them into his own emotive landscapes to become the father of Expressionism, proving Fénéon wrong....
...Italian design brand Molteni&C returned to the festival with a Vincent Van Duysen-designed outdoor furniture collection plus its Porta Volta chair by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron....
...A Jewish émigré from a shtetl near Minsk, Soutine arrived in Paris in 1913, assimilated the transfigurations of Cubism into an eloquent, emotive language derived from Van Gogh, flourished in the 1920s, spent...
...Hockney comments that “they are just using Van Gogh and Monet, and they’re dead. They can’t add anything to it. Well, I’m still alive, so I can make things work better.”...
...The days of the museum “art historical label” are over, says head of collections Nico van Hout....
...Jackie Wullschläger reflects on an unforgettable exhibition in Paris. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Runs February 9-May 7, whitechapelgallery.org, then at Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, and Kunsthalle, Bielefeld...
...The first I found was from Van Cleef, a Leo, which is my sign. It has to be my sign or one for someone from my family. Van Cleef did them and I’ve found a few of those. And Cartier....
...An underlying story is the tremendous victory of secular emancipation, as still life moved from the medieval margins — props of book, candlestick, cushions in Rogier van der Weyden’s “Annunciation” — to...
...The expansive view towards cornfields and low hills from the day-bright spaces is repeated in Van Gogh’s airy “Wheatfield with Cornflowers”....
...A synthesiser of art’s shifting currents, she pulls elements from early Chagall, Cézanne’s geometry and, above all, Expressionism, as forged by Van Gogh and Munch, and pushed towards abstraction by Kandinsky...
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