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Hot wet gloss

This is the second instalment in an ongoing series responding to every painting in London’s National Gallery. The first is here.

About Rubens, there are two schools of thought. The first is that the seventeenth-century Flemish master is o...

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Defendente di Who?

These days I find that when a song gets stuck in my head it stays there longer, and as a consequence I’ll spend days or weeks on end, singing myself sick with the two lines I remember from ‘We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)’. The Vengabus is...

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Every painting in the National Gallery, pt. 1

There is no document of civilisation, wrote Walter Benjamin, which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. When I look at this painting, I think the same about modesty and obscenity.

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Constable and Turner

Constable & Turner

A clash of values at Tate Britain

At Tate Britain until 12th April, two incompatible ideas of landscape painting are irresistibly opposed. Joseph Turner and John Constable—for some the two greatest British painters—hang...

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Tortured finery

In the beginning there were two of us and we were both naked. Problems followed, chiefly involving a snake and apple. Everyone blamed each other, and both of them blamed the snake. Many inconveniences were subsequently produced. Death, sin,...

8 months ago
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