The conscientious painter
Percy Horton was born in 1897 and so reached conscriptable age in the middle of the First World War. He,…
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David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring is undermined by the artist’s digital medium
The images in this vivid chronicle of spring at his new home in France are pixelated, mechanical and flat.
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The aqueous scenes of Julia Beck
How the Swedish painter found her true home by the rivers around Paris.
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Bob Dylan at 80: His paintings are of a piece with the folk roots of his music
Dylan’s main subject in his artwork is quotidian America, light on people and redolent with atmosphere – ennui, melancholy and…
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The quiet landscape of Giorgio Morandi
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Gaston Fébus and the thrills of the chase
A 14th-century hunting manual offers a vision of the ideal relationship between man and nature.
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A prisoner’s perspective
Jacques-Louis David painted his only landscape as the guillotine loomed over him.
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The cameraless images of Anna Atkins
How Atkins’s striking cyanotypes found wonders in the minutiae of the natural world.
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