Marina Vaizey
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Articles by Marina Vaizey
Leon Kossoff: London Landscapes, Annely Juda Fine Art
Friday, 10 May 2013
Sixty years of hard work, encapsulated in 90 drawings and a handful of thickly encrusted paintings, by the distinguished, obsessive, single-minded octagenerian artist Leon Kossoff (b 1926) vividly... Read more... |
William Scott: Divided Figure, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Thursday, 02 May 2013
Down by the seaside, an array of rather lumpen large naked women are marching, posing, reclining, and even rolling over along the walls of the new Jerwood Gallery, delineated by William Scott (1913-... Read more... |
Jacob Epstein: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
Monday, 08 April 2013
“I don’t like the family Stein; There is Gert, there is Ep and there’s Ein; Gert’s Poems are bunk, Ep’s statues are punk, And nobody understands Ein” (Anon).Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) did indeed... Read more... |
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man, Ambika P3
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Ambika P3 is a windowless, cavernous basement once used to test concrete for huge building projects – the Channel Tunnel among them – now ingeniously recycled as a kunsthalle gallery / performance... Read more... |
Moore Rodin, Henry Moore Foundation
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais have decamped from their usual perch next to the House of Lords to cosy up to the work of Henry Moore. They can be found at Moore’s home and studio at Perry Green in... Read more... |
Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars, Victoria & Albert Museum
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Jewels, gold, silver, arms and armour, silks, embroideries, tapestries and lace: the world of the very rich and very powerful royals – and merchants – in Russia and Britain half a millennia ago is... Read more... |
George Catlin: American Indian Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
Thursday, 07 March 2013
Scores of reddish-bronze skinned men, and a few women and children, in full regalia, festooned in face paint, feathers, jewellery and decorations of all kind. They stare out at us, impassive and... Read more... |
Federico Barocci: Brilliance and Grace, National Gallery
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Federico Barocci, who he? According to the National Gallery, a great Renaissance, mannerist and Baroque painter hardly known outside Italy, the National’s own Madonna of the Cat his... Read more... |
Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901, Courtauld Gallery
Monday, 18 February 2013
In Yo Picasso!, a self-portrait from 1901 (pictured below, Private Collection), the 19-year-old Picasso is already projecting an inimitable bravura, emphasised by his dashing orange cravat. He looks... Read more... |
Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch, National Gallery
Friday, 08 February 2013
Pre-Raphaelites, eat your heart out; and wherever he is, John Ruskin, once so dismissive of the artist, must be beaming with pleasure. The American landscape painter Frederic Church (1826-1900) was... Read more... |
Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind, British Museum
Wednesday, 06 February 2013
Prehistory – human life before written language - enters art’s mainstream with this seminal and eye-opening exhibition. This one-off show, amplified by excellent labelling and atmospheric lighting,... Read more... |
Juergen Teller: Woo!, ICA
Monday, 04 February 2013
Crossover isn’t the half of it. Not since Helmut Newton has a photographer operated so successfully in both the worlds of celebrity high fashion and the world of art. In Juergen Teller’s case there... Read more... |
Yuletide Scenes 1: The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
In our chilled Decembers, even when snowless, winter scenes are visually synonymous with Christmas, and Henry Raeburn’s small painting of The Reverend Robert Walker, from the 1790s, skating with... Read more... |
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape, Royal Academy
Sunday, 16 December 2012
All roads start from Rome, and so it proves in this challenging exhibition put together from the holdings of the Royal Academy’s art collection, archives and library. It features 17th-century Italian... Read more... |
Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, Fine Art Society
Sunday, 09 December 2012
Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now is an accurate but unalluring title for what is a seminal show. The Fine Art Society is one of the oldest commercial galleries in Britain, founded in 1876 and... Read more... |
Francesco Clemente, Blain Southern
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
The Neapolitan Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 into a patrician Italian family, the son of a judge. He studied classics in school and architecture in Rome, became a photographer, and then turned... Read more... |
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