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Visual arts round-up 2022 with Christine Lindey
(L to R) Kathe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903; Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, August - September 1887
[(L to R) Kathe Kollwitz Museum Koln Public domain Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
INSPIRED curating at the National Gallery managed to provoke a multitude of ideas by juxtaposing just two life-size portraits — Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Madame Moitessier of 1856 and Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Book of 1932.
The contrast between the arch-traditionalist and the quintessential modernist embodied the cultural and social change from France’s 19th-century bourgeois rule and values to the progressive ones of the first decades of the 20th century.
Ingres’s portrait being commissioned by her father-in-law, a minister of state, Picasso’s painting being a non commissioned portrait of his current young partner. Yet Picasso paid tribute to his predecessor by choosing to pose his sitter to echo that of Ingres’s portrait.
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