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Monday, 27 December 2021

Artlyst - And On An Art Note: End Of Year Diary 2021

My latest article for Artlyst is a diary piece covering a wide range of  exhibitions and publications including work by Marc Chagall, Giacomo Manzù, Anna Ray, and Hughie O'Donoghue. It's mainly London-based but includes a trip to St Albans Museums:

'Touring galleries in the environs of Cork Street during Advent reminded me that, in the past, galleries would often have used Christmas as a reason to show works utilising religious iconography. That seems to be no longer the case, but, as I reflected further, that seems an indication that engaging with religion is no longer a niche theme for galleries but one that has been mainstreamed. As evidence, we can look at the extent to which the religious iconography of modern or contemporary artists is now explored either as a sole focus or central strand of retrospectives, as with Andy Warhol: Revelation, which is currently at Brooklyn Museum, or Paula Rego/Josefa de Óbidos: religious art in the feminine at Casa Das Historias Paula Rego earlier in the year. Also, the extent to which the religious iconography and themes of historical collections are increasingly being researched, displayed and shared in innovative ways, often specifically with faith communities. Examples range from exhibitions such as Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist with its exploration of contacts with Martin Luther to the National Gallery’s new Sacred Art in Collections Pre-1900 Network and the developing Visual Commentary on Scripture providing online exhibitions in dialogue with passages from the Bible.’

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Saturday, 11 December 2021

Artlyst: Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London

My latest review for Artlyst on 'Dürer Journey's: Travels Of A Renaissance Artist' at the National Gallery:

'Albrecht Dürer’s grandfather hailed from the Hungarian village of Ajtos. Dürer’s father migrated from Hungary to Germany, eventually settling in Nuremberg. Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys; along the river Rhine, twice crossing the Alps to Italy and, in later life, to the Low Countries.

Journeys, therefore, shaped Dürer’s family significantly while also fuelling his curiosity and creativity, in part by bringing him into contact with a broader range of other artists and, over time, increasing his fame and influence. This is the first exhibition to focus on the artist through his travels, bringing us, as visitors and viewers, closer to the man himself and the people and places he visited. The world he inhabited and through which he travelled was one at the beginning of significant change, so by following his journeys, our eyes are opened to significant cultural shifts.’

For more on this period of art history see my review of 'Cranach: Artist and Innovator'.

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Friday, 1 June 2012

The Pugin Trail

My piece on Birmingham's Pugin Trail has been published in the current edition of the Church Times.

One strand of the Trail explores prints as an important vehicle by which Christianity was extended to and received by the wider community. Pugin used the work of Dürer, seem by him via prints, as inspiration for his own architectural and interior designs including furniture, tiles, wallpaper, and stained-glass windows.The influence that prints could have was also demonstrated by Pugin's own influence as his own name was made with the publication in 1836 of Contrasts, a book of satirical “before and now” etchings, through which he contrasted the glories of medieval architecture and its civilised society with the tired classical constructions that were the product of the degraded modern industrial city.

Rosemary Hill's God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain provides an excellent introduction to the man and his work. The BBC documentary Pugin: God's Own Architect can currently be seen in i-player.

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