A girl in profile, her hair pinned up, dressed in a richly embroidered gown, stands out against a neutral background decorated with flowers and crossed by three fluttering butterflies, like a tapestry. This…
Georges De La Tour steps out of his own half-light. He does so in an exhibition organised by the Prado Museum, which brings back one of the great masters of the Baroque and also one of the most…
Although the mechanism of visual perception is the same in both cases, looking at the outside world and looking at an artwork are two different acts. The physical world is perceived without…
The city is an impenetrable wall, numb and sordid behind its outlines. The city is an impassable artwork, like the incessant clash of light day after day. A constant collision of debris, crushed, compacted, cleaned up and…
"Don't fall into the temptation of simply painting an outline and then filling it in". So goes one of the first lessons the novice watercolor painter jots down in his notebook. And inside it he writes…
There are no reliable portraits, no letters, no diary, not even his sketches. All that is left to us of the French painter Georges de La Tour is some thirty artworks that for more than two centuries…
I'm going to suggest a game. It has no rules. There's no time limit. There's no cap on players. No dice needed either, no cards, no scoreboard. All you really need is a…
It's time. The doors have opened. We've waited patiently for our turn, longer or shorter depending on how much media attention the artists on show are getting, and also on how much of a tourist draw…