French artist Henri Rivière (1864–1951) was one of the first to attempt to replicate not just the visual vocabulary of the Japanese masters, but also their printing methods.
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The trompe l’œil has an image problem. The genre – in its narrowest sense a group of works that create an optical illusion, typically tricking the viewer into mistaking the representation of an object for the object itself – has long been relegated to the ranks of ‘low art’.
In October, a small but steady stream of negative comments about Paris began to appear on X posts about art events in France.
Arte povera and its afterlife strike me as exemplary of the fate of counter-current movements, that so quickly lose their revolutionary value and are subsumed into the institutions they originally set out to critique.
Les Malheurs des immortels (The Misfortunes of the Immortals) was an altogether more experimental collaboration, one that challenged traditional conceptions of what illustrations could or should do.
At first glance, it is difficult to conceive of Nos Invisibles (1907) as a controversial text. Its pages contain dreamy ruminations on the quest for spiritual serenity and “the mystery of eternal life”, interspersed with elegant illustrations by the Italian watercolourist Raffaele Mainella that conjure celestial bodies and the healing power of nature.
As the opening day of Billie Zangewa’s show drew to a close, few would have anticipated the circumstances that would soon engulf it, nor the new resonances her work would find in light of them.
The Palais de Tokyo’s collaboration with the Qatari museum Mathaf, “Our World is Burning” offers an ambitious survey of contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa.
A new exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath explores the British artist’s early works.
Discussing the show with French friends, I’ve quickly learnt that a Brit should tread carefully before daring to critique such an undisputed national treasure.
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