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Thursday, 17 August 2023

Artlyst: Jeremy Deller In Rennes And Brittany Post-Impressionism – August Diary

My August Art Diary for Artlyst is inspired by a recent trip to Brittany:

'Brittany played a significant role in developing Post-Impressionism and Pictorial Symbolism, with its Catholic culture a source of inspiration and Catholic artists among its pioneers. Several artists also contributed to reviving sacred art in Europe whilst offering or creating work for local churches. The visual arts remain significant for Brittany through collections of Post Impressionist work and contemporary exhibitions such as the current retrospective of the Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller in Rennes.'

I told some of the story of Post-Impressionism and Pictorial Symbolism in my Artlyst review of 'After Impressionism' at the National Gallery - see here. For more on Émile Bernard see here. For more on Paul Sérusier see here. For more on Maurice Denis see here, here and here. For my Church Times review of 'Jeremy Deller: English Magic' see here.

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Medicine Head - His Guiding Hand.
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Sunday, 16 April 2023

Artlyst: Why Critics Have A Problem With The Pre-Raphaelites?

My latest exhibition review for Artlyst is on 'The Rossettis' at Tate Britain:
 
'The Pre-Raphaelites wanted to go back to the future – back to the art before Raphael – to create something new in the present. As such, they were medievalists, although with a romantic view of medievalism that has gone on to shape elements of Fantasy Art. Their truth-to-nature ethos made them precursors to hyper-realism, while their love of narrative and Symbolism made them precursors of Symbolism. They were aligned with the spirituality of the Oxford Movement with its High Church and Roman Catholic commitments. This also connected to their interest in social action and socialism, both of which informed the beginnings of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which sought to democratise the Arts and restore or decorate churches—in addition to the Arts and Crafts Movement, which emerged directly from Pre-Raphaelitism, the Aesthetic Movement, as this exhibition explores, also emerged from their initial revolt.'

See here and here for Church Times reviews relating to John Ruskin and here for more on the influence of the Rossettis and Pre-Raphaelites.

My other pieces for Artlyst are:

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Florence and the Machine: Cosmic Love.
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Friday, 27 January 2023

Church Times Art review - M. K. Ciurlionis: Between Worlds at Dulwich Picture Gallery

My latest review for Church Times is of M. K. Ciurlionis: Between Worlds at Dulwich Picture Gallery:

'In bringing together the celestial and the earthly, the physical and the spiritual, music and painting, the fantastical and the real, the figurative and the abstract, Ciurlionis employed a range of techniques and approaches, including the blurring and blending of forms through light and colour; a layering of lines and colours which enables an interweaving or interpenetration of states and forms; the reversing of forms or states of being, such as sea and sky; and a focus on the horizon as the meeting point between zones or worlds, in which the horizon line often functions as a bridge between worlds.'

Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here and those for Art+Christianity are here. See also Modern religious art: airbrushed from art history?

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St Martin's Voices - Light Of The Minds That Know Him.


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Saturday, 18 September 2021

ArtWay Visual Meditation - Jan Toorop: Apostles Window

My latest Visual Meditation for ArtWay focuses on the Apostles Window at the Titus Brandsma Memorial Church in Nijmegen and popular reproductions such as Pietà by Jan Toorop:

'For both the Apostles Window and his popular reproductions such as Pietà, Toorop moved beyond the arabesques of his Symbolist works to take his linearity in a more geometric and monumentalized stylistic direction. Kees Veelenturf in writing about the Apostles Window notes the extent to which artists of that time had been searching for a universal grammar of form, emanating from a wish to make genuine ‘Christian’ art...

Both works feature in the exhibition ‘Toorop: Between Faith and Hope’ (until October 24, 2021) at Museum Villa Mondriaan in Winterswijk. A unique feature of the exhibition has been the collecting of stories from the owners of prints by Toorop. These enable us to understand the impact of his work on the faithful. Around 1930 Toorop was one of the most reproduced artists of his time.'

My visual meditations include work by María Inés Aguirre, Giampaolo Babetto, Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Alexander de Cadenet, Christopher Clack, Marlene Dumas, Terry Ffyffe, Jake Flood, Antoni Gaudi, Nicola Green, Maciej Hoffman, Lakwena Maciver, S. Billie Mandle, Giacomo Manzù, Michael Pendry, Maurice Novarina, Regan O'Callaghan, Ana Maria Pacheco, John Piper, Nicola Ravenscroft, Albert Servaes, Henry Shelton, Anna Sikorska and Edmund de Waal.

My Church of the Month reports include: All Saints Parish Church, Tudeley, Aylesford Priory, Canterbury Cathedral, Chapel of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Hem, Chelmsford Cathedral, Churches in Little Walsingham, Coventry Cathedral, Église de Saint-Paul à Grange-Canal, Eton College Chapel, Lumen, Metz Cathedral, Notre Dame du Léman, Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce, Plateau d’Assy,Romont, Sint Martinuskerk Latem, St Aidan of Lindisfarne, St Alban Romford, St. Andrew Bobola Polish RC Church, St. Margaret’s Church, Ditchling, and Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, St Mary the Virgin, Downe, St Michael and All Angels Berwick and St Paul Goodmayes, as well as earlier reports of visits to sites associated with Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Antoni Gaudi and Henri Matisse.


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Al Green - People Get Ready.
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Saturday, 13 February 2021

Sabbatical Art Pilgrimage: Denis Chapel, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
































 





The Musee Maurice Denis is a museum dedicated to the work of Denis, the Symbolists and Nabis artists and their time. Once the home of the painter, the museum was opened to the public in 1980. Since then the collection has been further enriched and helps to form an understanding of the origins of modern art. Denis restored and decorated a chapel in the building which can also be seen and which represents a bringing together of his work with the Ateliers d'Arte Sacre.

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Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love.
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Friday, 24 May 2019

Charles Filiger: Painter of the Absolute

Charles Filiger, who was associated with the Symbolist movement, spent time with Gauguin in Le Pouldu in 1989-90. They both chose to synthesize and stylize forms after experimenting with Pointillism for a short time. Filiger developed a very personal style in small paintings of Brittany landscapes and of religious subjects, informed by his love of early Italian painting. After looking at some of Gauguin’s paintings, he said to him, “You are Gauguin. You play with light. I am Filiger. I paint the Absolute.”

Filiger’s work was shown in Symbolist exhibitions beginning right after the birth of this new aesthetic, around 1890. They included the Exhibition of Impressionist and Symbolist Painters at the gallery Le Barc de Boutteville in Paris, the Salon de la Rose+Croix at the gallery Durand-Ruel, and the Salon des XX in Brussels. His work was quickly noticed by both the critics and his fellow artists, many of whom were influenced by him. He also became friends with writers associated with this new trend. In 1894, Alfred Jarry published the longest article ever devoted to an artist in Mercure de France, and Rémy de Gourmont asked him to illustrate several of his works. The art patron Antoine de la Rochefoucauld gave him financial support for several years.

After he left Le Pouldu in 1905, Filiger became something of a recluse, wandering around Brittany and living in hotels and hospices. He was finally taken in by a kind family in Plougastel-Daoulas. Although many thought he had died, he actually continued to work even in his isolation.

The gallery Malingue in Paris is currently holding an exhibition of works by Filiger, meaning that, for the first time in nearly 30 years, art lovers and all those who are curious about the artist are able to see a wide selection of his work. Nearly 80 works by Filiger are on show, along with publications illustrated by him, all of them from either private collections or museums (in France: in Albi, Quimper, Brest and Saint-Germain-en-Laye), including the magnificent The Last Judgment from the Josefowitz Collection, on loan from the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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The Innocence Mission - You Chase The Light.
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