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Wednesday, 25 November 2015

'The Falling Rocket' by Whistler - 1875

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  James Whistler said that he ‘mixed his paint with his brain’ . James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) , Nocturne in B...
Friday, 6 November 2015

'Nude desending a staircase, nr.2' by Marcel Duchamp - 1912

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Gertrude Stein, the cubist writer as she called herself, describes the situation of painting at the time as follows: “After Cézanne, everyon...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

'Nudo Dolente' by Modigliani - 1908

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“There was a cult of what has been called ‘negative beauty’ in the early twentieth century.” – Carol Mann about Modigliani, Thames and Huds...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

Auguste Rodin "The Burghers of Calais" - 1888

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To Émile -Antoine Bourdelle , a friend and sculptor, Rodin writes: " My liberation from academicism was created by Michelange...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

'Family' by Henry Moore - 1935

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Henry Moore's work has become in the course of the years increasingly abstract , but that was, as he himself said , " just be...
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