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Monday, 30 June 2025

Artlyst: The Art Diary July 2025

My July Art Diary for Artlyst has been published today. The July Art Diary begins with exhibitions in and reflection on ecclesiastical buildings, through the Liverpool Biennial and the Waterloo Festival. Moments from the wide-ranging engagement between religion and art are featured in exhibitions at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Waddesdon Manor, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Reflection on the place of myth in the human story can be found in exhibitions at the Parsonage Gallery and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. At the same time, ‘Worldbuilding and Wonder’ explores the experience of people with autism about the concept at Firstsite Gallery:

'The late Terry Fyffe was also an artist who dedicated himself to the pursuit of creative expression and spiritual exploration. A new website dedicated to his life, art and legacy has recently been launched. Designed as a resource for artists, curators, collectors, students, and art enthusiasts, this site offers a comprehensive insight into his prolific career and extraordinary body of work.

Fyffe built a remarkable career over four decades, predominantly based in London. He described his style as “figurative, expressionist painting, about the struggle for self-realisation.” Daniel Farson wrote that: “Ffyffe is a true painter in the classical tradition. A fluent draughtsman, he understands the challenge of paint and twists it to his advantage.” ...

I was fortunate to exhibit at St Stephen Walbrook an exhibition that brought together the last works that Fyffe was working on before this profound change combined with his new work depicting the beauty of the hidden world of nature and the inner world of the mind. It was his last major exhibition and one that was particularly satisfying for him.'

For more on Terry Ffyffe see here, here, here, here, and here. For more on Pablo Bronstein see here. For more on Paul Thek see here and here. For more on Paula Rego see here and here.

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David Ackles - I've Been Loved.
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Thursday, 1 May 2025

Artlyst: May Art Diary

My May Art Diary for Artlyst has been published today:

"Three artists I have interviewed are opening new exhibitions this month – Márta Jakobovits, Genesis Tramaine and Helaine Blumenfeld. For the May Art Diary, I also include three exhibitions involving gardens – at Gainsborough’s House, Philip Mould and Company, and Waddesdon Manor. I also highlight exhibitions featuring aspects of the mystical or mythological. This includes a group show, ‘Finding My Blue Sky’ at Lisson Gallery. Finally, two exhibitions in church or former church spaces include Martin Creed at Camden Arts Projects and Max Blake at St Andrew's Wickford."

For more on Márta Jakobovits see here and here, Genesis Tramaine see here and here, and Helaine Blumenfeld see here, here, here and here. For information about Max Blake's exhibition at St Andrew's Wickford see here.

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Iain Archer - Streamer On A Kite.
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Wednesday, 28 July 2021

Waddesdon Manor: Gustave Moreau

 



Gustave Moreau (1826-98) was one of the most brilliant and influential artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. Gustave Moreau: The Fables at Waddesdon Manor aims to display some of the most important works he ever made, unseen in public for over a century.

In collaboration with Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, this exhibition reveals for the first time 35 watercolours created by Moreau between 1879 and 1885, on loan from a private collection. They were part of a series commissioned by the art collector Antony Roux to illustrate the 17th-century Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (many of which derive from Aesop’s Fables). They were exhibited in Paris in the 1880s to great acclaim and in London in 1886, where critics frequently compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones.

Moreau made 64 works for the series, which subsequently entered a Rothschild collection; however, a significant proportion was lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white.

Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote that "Gustave Moreau is an extraordinary, unique artist ... a mystic, locked away in his Paris cell, where the buzz of contemporary life cannot reach him ... Lost in ecstasy, he sees splendid magical visions, the gory apotheoses of other ages." 

Read more about Moreau in my post describing a visit to the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris.

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