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In memoriam Karl Isakson, the Nordic Modigliani 2

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He spent much of the war on the Danish island of Bornholm, planning a series of paintings about death and resurrection. He died young, a century ago today.

February 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Karl Isakson, the Nordic Modigliani 1

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Born into poverty in Stockholm, he worked as an assistant to Carl Larsson before training in Sweden and Paris. One of the fathers of Modernism.

February 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Amedeo Modigliani: 3 1917-1919

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Towards the end of the Great War, he spent a period in Nice, with his partner Jeanne Hébuterne. His only solo exhibition was closed by the police within hours of its opening.

January 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Amedeo Modigliani: 2 1915-1916

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Portraits of Picasso and other artists of the day, two dealers, and the start of his series of nudes painted for Leopold Zborowski.

January 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Amedeo Modigliani: 1 1907-1914

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Soon after his arrival in Paris, in 1906, he switched to sculpture. He had the idea of a ‘temple to humanity’, with hundreds of caryatids to support it.

January 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 5 – 1943-1945

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His final series of Landscapes of the Moon and Aerial Flowers are among his most visionary, and refer to much of his previous work, and that of William Blake.

March 16, 2017 General, Painting

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 4 – 1939-1942

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Appointed as a full-time war artist to the RAF, he was expected to paint portraits of aircrew. He had other, much better ideas.

March 13, 2017 General, Painting

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 3 – 1931-1938

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At the height of his surrealism, his paintings were inspired by found objects, Freud, and the megalithic monuments of Wessex.

March 8, 2017 General, Painting

Paul Nash: from ancient to surreal, 2 – 1920-1930

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During the 1920s, he painted some of his finest conventional landscapes, and became overtly surrealist.

March 2, 2017 General, Painting

Alchemy: 12 – novel resins, water, and the uncertain future

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Finally, we start to understand how oil paint works – just as Modernist painters seem determined to stop it from working at all.

September 16, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

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