Art in passing

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Eric Ravilious 1903-42 was killed on active service during WW2 at only 39. He was a watercolour master in the great tradition of British landscape specialists like John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer & Paul Nash. Much of his work as war artist was done around the British coastal defences and the sub-arctic ocean – as here, where HMS Ark Royal engages the enemy at night in 1940 off Norway. Ravilious is on show until 31 August 2015 at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers, Hms Ark Royal, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Ww2 Art, Book Painting, English Landscape, Navy Aircraft Carrier, 2 September, British Artists
Eric Ravilious 1903-42 was killed on active service during WW2 at only 39. He was a watercolour master in the great tradition of British landscape specialists like John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer & Paul Nash. Much of his work as war artist was done around the British coastal defences and the sub-arctic ocean – as here, where HMS Ark Royal engages the enemy at night in 1940 off Norway. Ravilious is on show until 31 August 2015 at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
an abstract piece of art that looks like it has been made out of paper
There didn't seem to be a theme to Ginsborg's ongoing series of little pictures. This one is in the shape of a tribal ceremonial shield.
an artistic painting on the wall of a building with trees and plants painted on it
I was very surprised by this Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, in his current show at Tate Britain. The works on display show Hockney's extreme versatility across his whole career. Here he conjures up a sharply surrealist effect that looks more like another planet than the East Riding.
a chair made out of wooden sticks and other objects on the floor in an art gallery
From the current exhibition by Ai Wei Wei at the Royal Academy. Each stool shares a leg with 2 others: clever.
the virgin and child are depicted in this painting
I photographed this Virgin and Child by the Florentine Neri di Bicci (1419-91) at the Petit Palais museum, Avignon. Grove's Dictionary of Art says Bicci was an uninspired and conservative painter for his time, but I find this a lovely and harmonious work, sensitively coloured and particularly rich in the use of gold. The Virgin's fingers are absurdly long, I suppose, but the bare-bottomed pudgy-faced child pulling at the trailing end of his mother's veil is the Christ child at his most human.
a painting of a man standing in front of a stone structure with the word steve written on it
Rene Magritte The Art of Conversation (1955). This small gouache (6 1/4 X 8 1/4 in) was on sale at Christies in London on 23 June 2015. Wonderful to see it before it disappears again. Note the 2 Magrittean figures in lower foreground (raincoats, bowlers, rolled umbrella) perhaps having the conversation referred to.
an artistic painting with many people in the center and one person on the other side
Jean Dubuffet Restaurant Rougeot 1
This is very French I think. The restaurant customers are all so solemn. Eating out is a serious almost a religious activity and accordingly the scene is a bit reminiscent of a church. There's more than a bit of the cartoonist in Dubuffet which is evident here.
a black and white drawing of a bird sitting on top of a brick wall with grass
Jean Dubuffet Wall with Bird
Wall with Bird (Lithograph on Montval paper 38x28.5 cm) is an illustration to a poem in the series Les Murs (The Walls) by the surrealist French poet Eugene Guillevic. Dubuffet was for a time big on walls & especially liked Brassai's photographs of Paris graffiti.
a piece of art that is on the wall
June 2018. I visit a show of these small, intriguing paintings by Michael Ginsborg. Each is c. 3 cm high.
It was a treat to see this little picture 3 Bathers by Cezanne at the National Gallery's Painters' Paintings show. It is specially cherishable because Matisse owned it. He wrote "In the thirty-seven years I have owned this canvas, I have come to know it quite well, though not entirely, I hope; it has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist; I have drawn from it my faith and my perseverance." Cezanne Paintings, Cezanne Art, Paul Cezanne Paintings, 3 Graces, Famous Oil Paintings, The Three Graces, Modernist Art, Paints On Canvas, Alberto Giacometti
It was a treat to see this little picture 3 Bathers by Cezanne at the National Gallery's Painters' Paintings show. It is specially cherishable because Matisse owned it. He wrote "In the thirty-seven years I have owned this canvas, I have come to know it quite well, though not entirely, I hope; it has sustained me morally in the critical moments of my venture as an artist; I have drawn from it my faith and my perseverance."
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a black sculpture is in front of a white wall with blue ink on it and people silhouettes
Until yesterday I hadn't visited Gagosian's newest London gallery in Grosvenor Hill Mayfair which opened in October 2015. Designed by Caruso St John it's in the "white space" style i.e. adaptable to all kinds of art. I have titled the current show (in my head) Giacometti Man Meets Yves Klein's Woman. Here Klein used nude bodies as paint brushes for his patented blue. Looks less avant-garde with every passing year.
an ancient stone carving with two faces on it
Carved 4000 years ago this limestone tomb lid or door is from Siracusa in Sicily. I saw it in the British Museum's Sicily exhibition. Sophisticated graphics, or what?
an image of some statues on the side of a building
This elegant relief marble panel in Regent's Place London is by Edward Hodges Baily (1815-78). It shows the defeated & wounded Spanish admiral, handing his sword to Nelson after the battle of St Vincent on 14th February 1797. The panel was for the arch originally intended to form the gateway of Buckingham Palace (a cut down version became Marble Arch). Baily rather specialised in Nelson: he sculpted the statue for the Column in Trafalgar Sq.