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LATEST ARTICLES ( 110 )

• Roger Vieillard: The Architecture of Time

  

  I’ve posted before about some of the great names of twentieth-century French engraving—Jean-Émile Laboureur, Henri-Georges Adam, Ferdinand Springer. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Tavik Frantisek Simon: Letters Home

  

  For those who remember my earlier post about the Czech artist Tavik František Šimon, I thought I would flag up a new book of interest, the first English... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Underexposed: Female Artists and the Medium of Print

  

  is an exhibition on a subject close to my heart, the importance of female printmakers, and the relative neglect their art still receives. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Original Etchings by American Artists

  

  I’ve posted before about Sylvester Rosa Koehler and his role as godfather of the American Etching Revival – the revival that consolidated (in the late 1870s... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Tears of Rage, Tears of Grief: Käthe Kollwitz and Her Circle

  

  Käthe Kollwitz and Paula Modersohn-Becker are the two most famous female artists in early twentieth-century Germany, but they were by no means alone: there are... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Hermann Struck: a German-Jewish Etcher

  

  I've just discovered that the house of Hermann Struck in Haifa has this October been turned into the Hermann Struck Museum, with an opening exhibition of his... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Secrets of the Absinthe Drinker: the Life and Art of Marcellin Desboutin

  

  You might not recognize the name of Marcellin Desboutin, but you would know him if you saw him in the street. His is the bearded, dishevelled face staring... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Where Even the Grass is Poor: the Drypoints of Jean-Francois Raffaelli

  

  After my last post about Auguste Lauzet, I thought I might stick with the Impressionist theme, and discuss a truly neglected artist, Jean-François Raffaëlli. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Impressionist Etchings of Auguste Lauzet

  

  The art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel was born in Paris in 1831. In 1865 he took over his father’s picture-dealing business, which specialised in the work of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Edvard Munch on a Good Day

  

  Everyone knows what to expect from the Norwegian Expressionist, Edvard Munch. As he himself put it, "Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounde... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Artist as Fire-eater: Willibald Wolf Rudinoff

  

  After my last post about the resourceful Philip Gilbert Hamerton, who took his carefully-prepared etching plates with him on a canoeing trip, I thought I... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Plein-Air Etcher: Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton was born in the hamlet of Laneside near Oldham, Lancashire, in 1834. Initially intending to be a painter, he turned to art criticism. Hi... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Jugendstil Masterpiece: Sehnsucht by Gotz Dohler

  

  In the early years of the twentieth century, many German artists were busy constructing the vocabulary of Expressionism. But some remained faithful to the... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Lamplit Dreamscape: Karl Hofer

  

  Karl Hofer, Nächtliche Überfahrt (Night journey)Etching with aquatint, 1899When I first saw this haunting etching with aquatint, I wasn't sure who the artist... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Not Monet, Monnet - Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  Gianni Monnet seems to have fallen through the cracks of art history, which is sad in all sorts of ways. Of all the artists of MAC, the Movimento Arte... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• An Italian Abstract Expressionist: Enrico Bordoni - Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  Enrico Bordoni was born in Altare in 1904.Enrico Bordoni (1904-1969)A professor at the Accademia Brera in Milan, Enrico Bordoni was a member of the abstract... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Master of Spatialism in the Movimento Arte Concreta - Lucio Fontana

  

  Lucio Fontana was born in Argentina in 1899. Now renowned as the founder of the Spazialismo movement (Spatialism), he was a member of Abstraction-Création in th... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Augusto Cernigoj - Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  Augusto (or Avgust) Černigoj was born in Trieste in 1898, of Slovenian parentage. He studied at the Fine Art Academy of Bologna, and also at the Bauhaus, where... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Personal Calligraphy: The Art of Gillo Dorfles - Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  The long-lived artist and art critic Gillo Dorfles was born in Trieste in 1910, and in 2013 was still able to be actively involved in designing the Tibetan... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Travel Sculpture by Bruno Munari: Movimento Arte Concreta

  

  Bruno Munari, about whom there is a very interesting article here relating to a 2002 exhibition at the Milan Dobeš Museum, was one of the four founders of MAC,... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE