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...If Le monde . . . is conceived in the day-bright spirit of Voltaire’s humanism, Liminal is its weird, futuristic opposite....
...independent of gender, Julia Margaret Cameron, most celebrated Victorian woman to wield a camera, and Francesca Woodman, whose enigmatic staged pictures, unknown when she made them in the 1970s, have blazed bright...
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...A tremendous initial contrast is Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s expressive, dislocated heads and Amy Sherald’s stylised realism of bright colours, clean lines....
...Choi Jeong Hwa’s “Blooming matrix” is a garden of tall, bright, densely clustered stacks: tropical plants fashioned from junk, found objects, plastic — remnants of the overconsumption causing the environmental...
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...Against a bright blue New Mexico sky, Jackie and Lou look unreal and monstrous, chiselled but beautiful. I do a double take, and notice others do the same....
...Here his bold imagining of an 18th-century African-American painter, ebony-dark face, bright white smock, “Scipio Moorhead, Portrait of Himself, 1776” (2007), is the interloper in a marvellous, surprising...
...In “Stairway at Auvers”, he takes command of the village as motif: its coiling paths form ribboned patterns, bright colour touches echo rhythmically — the yellows of the young girls’ hats, an arched doorway...
...the ears of a porcupine, the muzzle of a greyhound, the brow of a lion, the crest of an old rooster, and the neck of a tortoise” — in a fantastical arabesque pen drawing, then added a delicate moth in bright...
...Here a ring of bowerbirds peck, hover, flit, dance around bright, exotic flowers, the pulse as hectic as breathless teenagers at a nightclub....
...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...
...He begins here in 2000 with an iridescent painting split into abstract bands of sea and sky by a horizon line and a bright orange canoe, extravagantly elongated and liquefied to blend into the water and...
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...“Mrs Tollemache as Miranda”, sinuous in white and gold, gleams bright between Caliban and Prospero shadowy among the trees — an innocent heroine....
...A plump figure in a bright white headscarf, seen from the back, tilts her chair violently forward; any second it will slip away from under her....
...Alex Katz’s “Anna Wintour”, Vogue editor, is sun-bright, minimalist cool....
...Giovanni Bellini’s vast and original “Transfiguration”, blending human, divine and landscape elements — the stunned apostles curled up on the ground, Jesus magnified in bright white robes, the distant city...
...The space is spare save for a bright red jukebox in the corner that’s a two-fingered jab at the minimalist surroundings – its menu shuffles from The Everly Brothers to Aretha Franklin....
...Seeking “a visual metaphor for the multiple sources of influence on people’s experiences”, Njideka Akunyili Crosby collages kaleidoscope-bright photographic fragments representing Nigerian culture — hip-hop...
...I loved this noisy, bright, inventive piece, playfully locating questions about the blur between real and virtual/fictive in a cabaret converging the worlds of Weimar Berlin and Silicon Valley....
...This turbulent collage of stitched and broken canvas, weighty impasto, waves of bright and obscured colour, alludes to protest movements and implies in its overlapping, contested forms the urgency of different...
...Live effects of sun, cloud, wind play across Gonzalez-Foerster’s sequences: fiery red backgrounds glow bright, then give way to wavy grey wastelands — appropriated from Tarkovsky’s Stalker — which in turn...
...Nilufar Gallery Founder Nina Yashar looked on “The Bright Side of Design” in a dazzling display of art and lighting from past masters and contemporary designers presented at both the Nilufar Depot on Viale...
...Monet Family in their Garden at Argenteuil” — and, under Degas’ influence, with pastel, notably “Madame Manet on a Blue Sofa”, his wife ungainly and dull in the pose of his own “Olympia”, a paradoxical bright...
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