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Richard Hamilton: Grandfather of Brit Art
Richard Hamilton is a truly influential figure in the history of British art and is considered to be the founder of the Pop Art movement. This retrospective is a collaboration between Tate Modern and the ICA, and covers the eclectic career of a very important British artist who wanted to get “all of living” into […]
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Tagged Da Vinci, Goya, James Joyce, Paul Black, Pop Art, Richard Hamilton
Paul Black talks Voyeurism and Mortality with Justin Mortimer
Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post-God mortality. For both twentieth century artists, a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are when […]
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Tagged Bacon, figuration, Goya, guilt, horror, Justin Mortimer, ny arts magazine, painting, Paul Black