The Saatchi Gallery’s premise for its new show, Painters’ Painters, is rather weak and perhaps borderline euphemistic. When we talk about an artist being a ‘painters’ painter’, do we mean anything other than a perfectly good creator who has never appealed very widely? To put it more positively, there are painters whose work ingeniously solves abstruse technical problems; they may become influential but not household names. ...read
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Tate Modern's much-anticipated Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition triumphantly exceeds expectations
I must say, as a choice for the first classic modernist to be given a show after the Tate unveiled its grand new extension, Georgia O'Keefe might have raised an eyebrow or two. In bulk, in an account of her whole career, would she seem absorbing, or would full exposure make her seem a bore? It must have been a gamble. This exhibition, however, succeeds triumphantly and draws us compellingly into O’Keeffe’s unique imagery. ...read
Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2016: a compelling enthusiasm for colours alongside the ludicrous and obscene at the world's largest open-submission show
Over the past few years, a concerted effort has been made by the Royal Academy to shift its annual Summer Exhibition in a livelier direction than before. No longer is the Small Weston Room a blizzard of amateur paintings of dogs and topiary, and the presence of compelling figures with a reputation outside the Academy is much more marked than hitherto. ...read
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