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Paintings of the Week Archive
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Book Covers
Posted on January 22, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve just been reading an interesting post on the Guardian Book Blog about book covers. I don’t agree with everything the bloggers says – I love pulpy covers! – though... -
Artists Who Are Murderers: Caravaggio
Posted on December 13, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s now seven days till the broadcast of Series 2 of THE ART OF DECEPTION, my drama about the world of art fraud and forgery. It tells the tale of... -
Paintings of the Week: Francoise Gilot
Posted on August 9, 2010 | 1 CommentJust back from hols – a week in West Wales, mainly spent reading Gene Wolfe’s splendid Book of the New Sun series. (Okay, I did ONCE go in the sea,... -
The Naked and the Nude and the SEXY
Posted on March 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsArt historians like to make a distinction between the ‘naked’ and the ‘nude’. The naked is embarrassing and socially taboo; whereas the nude is beautiful, artistic, and morally acceptable. Kenneth Clark... -
Paintings of the Week: Self Portraits
Posted on March 14, 2010 | No CommentsI never recognise myself in photographs; the tall, muscular, heroic man that I know myself to be always get strangely reduced into being a short tubby Welsh bloke. This just... -
Paintings of the Week: the Thames
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No CommentsThis week all the paintings I feature, by various artists, are of the River Thames. I remember when I first came to London from University, and a gang of us... -
Paintings of the Week: Van Gogh
Posted on February 28, 2010 | No CommentsToday I am going to continue with the theme of Art and Madness. I got into this weird riff when I began showing pictures by the committed lunatic and sexual... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on February 21, 2010 | No CommentsIt’s often said that genius is closely allied to madness – which is a great excuse for creative types to behave badly. But last’s week Paintings of the Week feature... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on February 14, 2010 | No CommentsHere are two examples of ‘art brut’ from Swiss artist Adolf Wolfi. Art brut is a concept coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, and is sometimes called ‘naive art’... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on February 7, 2010 | No CommentsEdward Hopper (1882-1967) was one of of the great portrait painters of small town America. His paintings look like movie stills – and his style is much imitated by cinematographers. ... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on January 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe beautiful painting above is by Vermeer; and it could only be by Vermeer. Even if you didn’t recognise the actual painting, there’s no other artist who paints domestic scenes... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on January 24, 2010 | No CommentsThis week, just to annoy that puritancial Calvinist Archie Tait, here’s some gratuitous nudity. Note: An odalisque is a female slave in a harem – a popular subject with many... -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsThis week, just for fun, here are two great paintings that have inspired two great songs. -
Paintings of the Week
Posted on January 10, 2010 | No CommentsLast year I wrote a radio serial about art and art forgery called The Art of Deception, which was broadcast in 5 x 15 minute episodes on BBC Radio 4; this...