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Surrealism

Painting the surreal before Surrealism 2

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Examples from Gustave Moreau, Georges Clairin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paul Nash, Joseph Stella, and Nikolai Astrup.

September 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the surreal before Surrealism 1

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Examples of surreal visual art from Bosch in about 1500, through Piranesi’s Imaginary Prison, Richard Dadd, to Félix Vallotton in 1892.

September 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Luc-Olivier Merson, storyteller in paint

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Highly original visual stories, of the Soldier of Marathon, Saint Francis of Assisi and the Wolf of Agubbio, plus illustrations for ‘Notre Dame de Paris’.

November 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Piranesi’s 300th anniversary: 2 Imaginary Prisons

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Sixteen extraordinary etchings from a really wild imagination, published in two editions during his lifetime. A founding inspiration to Gothic-Romantic and Surrealist art.

October 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Piranesi’s 300th anniversary: 1 Antiquities

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He made about 2,000 prints, overwhelmingly views of Roman ruins. They remain a reference for artists, archaeologists and antiquaries.

October 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Far from home: Paintings of Frances Hodgkins 2

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A member of the Seven & Five group, when it moved towards abstract art in 1934, she resigned to pursue her individual style.

January 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The gentle surrealism of Paul Nash 2 International Surrealist Exhibition

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The exhibition featured 360 collages, paintings and sculptures from 69 artists of 14 nations. It launched Surrealism in the UK.

December 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The gentle surrealism of Paul Nash 1 Unit One

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Formed in January 1933 with the sculptor Henry Moore, it was crucial to British Surrealism and modern British art more generally.

December 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Félix Vallotton: 4 War and the Land

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Many of his last paintings were landscapes, made from earlier sketchbooks and studies, seen through the eye of the print-maker.

April 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Félix Vallotton: 3 Myth and Mists

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From 1907, he painted a series of mythological works, and increasingly turned to landscapes, some of which are most unusual, almost surreal.

April 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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