Entries by Barbara

Turner Prize – Demystified

Hurvin Anderson, Is it OK to be black?  2016.  (Detail) The Turner Prize was set up in 1984 to encourage wider appreciation of contemporary art and has become one of the best known visual art prizes in the world.  Each year 4 artists are short-listed. They must be “British” which means either working mainly in […]

“Painting the Maharaja” Christie’s sale (18 May – 25 May 2017)

A Seated Portrait of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (1900-1938) as a Young Prince. North India, c. 1900. Opaque pigments on paper (59.3 x 40.4cm) One of three forthcoming Christie’s London auctions, Painting the Maharaja showcases, in 30 lots, the Indian art of portraiture. Nawabs, Maharajas and their courtesans from India’s fabled courts of Delhi, Patiala, Gwalior, Lucknow […]

2017 May / June Half Term Art Camp

  Wednesday 31st May:  Animals of Pablo Picasso – Learn about Picasso and create an animal Picasso style – Picasso was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and although his enigmatic paintings can be hard to interpret (and he famously refused to explain), he often used animals as symbols. Thursday 1st June […]

Michelangelo & Sebastiano – National Gallery to 25th June 2017

Sebastiano del Piombi, The Raising of Lazarus, 1519 (detail) The exhibition explores the 25-year friendship and partnership between Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564) and Sebastiano del Piombi (1485 – 1547) which began in 1511 as Michelangelo was finishing his decoration of the Sistine Chapel.  (Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are considered the […]

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908 – first illustrated edition, 1931

Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, 1908 later illustrated by Ernest Shepard The first edition of Wind in the Willows was published with a frontispiece illustration only.  Later editions, illustrated by Ernest Shepard who had famously illustrated the Winnie the Pooh  series, quickly became more popular.  200 of the first illustrated editions were produced and no. […]

What is “Cubism”?

Cubism is an art movement which began in Paris around 1907 and became hugely influential in the period to the start of the first world war (1914) and thereafter. It broke away from centuries of traditional painting by rejecting a single viewpoint and showing people and objects in multi-dimensions.  Cubist artists fractured their subjects into geometric forms […]