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3 days ago · ArtReview Features 08 October 2024. Gombrich explores the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals, while ArtReview inserts a few thoughts on the influence of Gombrich’s thinking in light of current debates on representation and decolonisation.
Tradition and Invention in Diasporic Filipino Art - ArtReview
Marv Recinto Features 22 August 2022 ArtReview Asia. Carlos Villa My Roots, (1970‑1971) Acrylic and feathers on canvas Overall (Irregular): 91 1/2 × 93 1/4in. (232.4 × 236.9 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Purchase, with funds from the Neysa McMein Purchase Award 72.21. Filipino-American artist Carlos Villa – the subject of a ...
Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021
Jun 1, 2021 · Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021. ArtReview News 01 June 2021 artreview.com. Arturo Luz, Candle Vendors, 1952–1954, oil on canvas, 77 x 123 cm. Working alongside a group of likeminded forward thinkers, Arturo Luz revolutionised art in the Philippines. A founder of the Neo-realist school, his work included painting ...
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About. Founded in 1949, ArtReview is one of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazines, dedicated to expanding contemporary art’s audience and reach, and tracing the ways it interacts with culture in general. Aimed at both a specialist and a general audience, the magazine and its sister publications, ArtReview Asia ...
Wayne Thiebaud: Art History, Anecdotes and an Excess of …
Jul 14, 2016 · Wayne Thiebaud, Suckers and Sweets, 2000, oil on canvas, 63 × 77 cm. Courtesy Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco Peking Ducks could be an emblem of this exchange between de Kooning and Thiebaud.Large, Soutine-like carcasses hang from wires against a blank background, but that background is a de Kooning just getting started.
What’s the Worst Painting of All Time? - ArtReview
Dec 7, 2022 · What’s the worst painting of all time? In 1969 it could have been Neil Jenney’s Man and Machine, a wonky image of a figure standing roadside next to his midcentury land yacht. Puke-green abounds, hasty brushstrokes ooze from the unconfident hand. Today, it might also be one of Robert Nava’s paintings.
The Return of Magic in Art - ArtReview
May 30, 2022 · Michael M. Hughes, ‘Hex Putin’ sigil, 2022. II. But the last decade has seen a shift of attention in contemporary art: magic, mysticism and spirituality, animism, the figure of the witch, the medium and the shaman, have all made a return to the art mainstream in the work of contemporary artists and thematic shows produced by contemporary curators, while also figuring in academic revisions ...
Issey Miyake: a Pioneer for Fashion at the Vanguard of Art, …
Aug 15, 2022 · Courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Born Kazunaru Miyake in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1938, he was seven-years old when, while cycling to school on 6 August 1945, US forces detonated an atomic bomb, devastating the city. Over 60 years later, writing in an op-ed for The New York Times in 2009, Miyake described how his mother, who had ...
Venice Biennale 2024: A Guide to the Arsenale - ArtReview
Apr 17, 2024 · It’s quite the gauntlet to lay down. Off the back of its president’s $2.1bn investment in tourism, arts and heritage, the Republic of Benin makes its debut at the Biennale, with its Pavilion, Everything Precious is Fragile, presenting the work of four artists drawing from the Yoruba Gèlèdè philosophy that celebrates ‘rematriation’, a ...
The Art of Creative Destruction - ArtReview
May 27, 2022 · The anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin wrote in 1842 that the ‘urge to destroy is a creative passion’. It is a creed that many artists have followed, to varying degrees of playfulness and provocation, vandalism and all-out obliteration. While it is clearly designed to cause controversy and act as a call to action, Bakunin’s maxim also ...