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3 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Ben Street |Charles Darwent |Jennifer Higgie
Frank Auerbach was right: “There isn’t a Turner that doesn’t somehow fly and there isn’t a Constable that doesn’t burrow.” J. M. W. Turner appears to have seen the world from midair: as viewers of his paintings, we can feel suspended in vortices of swirling wind, snow or smoke. John Constable, by contrast, has his feet firmly planted in the dirt. The mulch and turf in his work seems smelt and touched, as though experienced from the vantage of a mole.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Charles Darwent
“Composition No. 3 with orange-red, yellow, black and grey” by Piet Mondrian, 1921
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Darwent
When, in 1992, Rosalind Savill announced that she was going to apply for the directorship of the Wallace Collection museum in London, reactions divided roughly in two. One group would smile wistfully and say how much they loved the Wallace, because no one ever went there. The second group would point out that Savill, who has died aged 73 of cancer, was variously unqualified for the job.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Charles Darwent
Citizen Guillaume – the painter whose fortunes followed the French Revolution’s THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death (c 1788; detail), Guillaume Guillon-Lethière. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
msn.com | Charles Darwent
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Darwent
In 2010, the year he turned 80, the artist Daniel Spoerri returned to Romania, the country he had left at the age of 12. Among his many discoveries was the local custom of picnicking in cemeteries. “Romanians eat with their dead,” Spoerri remarked in a 2015 biopic, gazing at a photograph he had brought back from his visit of a dining table next to a grave. The image might have been of one of his own works. In 1983, Spoerri had organised an al fresco dinner for 120 guests in a town outside Paris.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Charles Darwent |Kathryn Hughes |Rod Mengham
That Xanti Schawinsky may be an unfamiliar name calls for an explanation. Born Alexander Schawinsky in Basle, Switzerland, in 1904, he enrolled at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the year when he turned twenty, 1924. This alone should guarantee familiarity. His teachers at the school – Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, etc – need no introduction.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Darwent
Invited to appear on Desert Island Discs in October 1991, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who has died aged 85, spoke with the cautious air of one picking her way across ice. Her choices of music were mostly the uninflammatory ones of a woman of culture – a Bach partita, a Beethoven piano sonata – as was that of her non-Bible book (TS Eliot’s Four Quartets).
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Charles Darwent
In Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary Pop Goes the Easel, a quartet of young British artists are filmed dabbling in popular culture: they buy comics at a street market, ride dodgems, dance the twist. One, tall, blond and in a neatly pressed shirt and tie, pours milk into a bowl of cornflakes. “That’s where the infiltration of American culture begins,” he says, gloomily. “At breakfast.” This was Derek Boshier, who has died aged 87.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Charles Darwent
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