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• Magnolia Grandiflora

  

  This voluptuous flower-maiden dates from 1885. At first glance you might take her for the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but he had died three years earlier. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sujet: La Jeune Peinture

  

  It is not often that one can see a complete overview of an art movement, but this is the case for the post-war French figurative school known as La Jeune... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Enigma of Henry Somm

  

  Henry Somm is a fascinating figure on the fringes of Impressionism. He took part in the Impressionist Exhibitions of 1879 and 1889, both at the Galerie... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• And the Prize for the Best Title Goes To... Joan Miró

  

  This is one of my favourite Joan Miró lithographs, mostly because of the strength of the image with its vivid colour and lively composition, but also because... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Latin Americans in Paris

  

  For my third and last post on the lithographs published by Situationist Times in 1967, I’d like to look at the surprising number of artists from Latin America... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Figuration Narrative

  

  The Paris-based Pop Art movement La Figuration Narrative (which overlaps with and is hard to distinguish from the similarly-named grouping La Nouvelle... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds

  

  The Situationist International was a loose affiliation of European political radicals, socialists and anarchists, which existed between 1957 and 1972. The two... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Myth of Sisyphus

  

  My last post about Max Klinger reminded me that I have some very exciting lithographs by André Masson on the same theme of the myth of Sisyphus. They were made... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Max Klinger: The Faculties

  

  This print by the German Symbolist Max Klinger was published in 1914 by Verlag E. A. Seemann, under the title Die Fakultäten.Max Klinger, Die FakultätenEtching... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Master of Engraving: Albert Decaris

  

  Copper plates were, until about 1820, the only metal on which intaglio prints, either engravings or etchings, were made. As Bamber Gascoigne explains in his... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2010 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE