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Reflections: van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites – National Gallery until 2 April 2018
The Arnolfini portrait (Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife), 1434 Jan van Eyck William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, founders of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, all became fascinated with The Arnolfini Portrait and the use of a mirror in domestic scenes to explore narrative and drama. What can you see in the […]
Rose Wylie ‘Quack Quack’ at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery showing until 11 February 2018
Rose Wylie NK (Syracuse Line-UP), 2014 (detail – full image below). A large, compelling exhibition of Rose Wylie (1934 – ) paintings from the late 1990s to-date, including works inspired by Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens and Wylie’s childhood memories of Bayswater during the Blitz with Spitfires and Messerschmitt planes fighting overhead – ‘ack-ack’ was the sound […]
Modigliani – A Major Retrospective at Tate Modern: 23 November 2017 – 2 April 2018
Amadeo Modigliani Nude, 1917 Private Collection (detail) Amedeo Clemente Modigliani 1884 – 1920 moved from Italy to Paris at the age of 22 where he lived until his death from tuberculosis at the age of 35. Best known and admired – posthumously – for his portraits and female full figure nudes, this huge Exhibition brings together […]