The EY Exhibition: Cezanne at Tate Modern, London, is practically a flawless presentation of the artist’s best landscapes, nudes, portraits, and still lifes. It’s impossible to overstate the outstanding quality of work exhibited and the excellent groupings of related pieces. Impressively, the show manages to highlight the materiality of Cezanne’s oil paintings and watercolours. DueContinue reading “REVIEW | The EY Exhibition: Cezanne – Tate Modern, London”
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REVIEW | Van Gogh. Self-Portraits – The Courtauld Gallery, London
Van Gogh. Self-Portraits at The Courtauld Gallery was a fabulous assembly of nearly half of the artist’s surviving autobiographical likenesses, specifically 16 from at least 35 in total. They even threw in Van Gogh’s Chair (National Gallery, London) and his portrait of Eugène Boch (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) for good measure. Every encounter was a personalContinue reading “REVIEW | Van Gogh. Self-Portraits – The Courtauld Gallery, London”
Louvre Abu Dhabi – a new collection awaits
The art world is about to get a little bit more exciting as the Louvre opens the doors to a new museum in Abu Dhabi in December 2015. The Louvre Abu Dhabi seeks to be a universal museum, embracing cross-cultural similarities instead of differences with its newly-bought collection. The Musée du Louvre’s Louvre Abu Dhabi:Continue reading “Louvre Abu Dhabi – a new collection awaits”
A Sunflower reunion
Drawing many a crowd to one of London’s busiest squares, two world-famous paintings by none other than the Dutch Impressionist Vincent van Gogh have been reunited in Room 46 of the National Gallery for the first time in 65 years. The reunion was made possible by the friendship between the National Gallery and the VanContinue reading “A Sunflower reunion”
Manet and Parisian Modernity
“Manet…join[s] to a pronounced taste for reality, for modern reality…that active and spacious imagination, both sensitive and bold, without which…even the best talents are only servants without masters, agents without authority.” – Charles Baudelaire, 1862 Well, it’s the first ‘proper’ week of my Easter break, so I decided to make my first trip to theContinue reading “Manet and Parisian Modernity”
Nigel Ip | Visual Arts Writer & Art Historian 