August Macke was born in 1887 and died in September 1914 in the trenches of Champagne, at the age of
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Κατηγορία: ζωγραφικη
Limeni, Mani, Greece – Λιμένι, Μάνη, Ελλάς
My most recent painting is Limeni, in Mani, Greece. I used acrylic paints on canvas. Dimensions are 100 cm (length)
Continue readingThe Philosopher’s Conquest – A painting by Giorgio de Chirico
Introduction “One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, not only the great questions one has always asked oneself
Continue readingPaula Rego and Edvard Munch: Dance
Today I present two paintings on a theme that has inspired two of my favourite painters: Paula Rego and Edvard Munch.
Continue readingEdvard Munch: Alpha og (and) Omega
“Sickness and insanity were the black angels that guarded my cradle” Edvard Munch, personal manuscript. Background Edvard Munch is one of
Continue readingPainting London’s Waterloo Bridge
Introduction It was 1995 and I was living in Kingston upon Thames, a stone’s throw from the river. My job
Continue readingTwo Masters of Light: Claude Lorrain and J.M.W. Turner
An enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon.A detail from JMW Turner’s “Slave-Ship”. Painting
Continue readingRenato Guttuso: pictor diabolicus, “devilish painter”?
I was introduced to the work of Renato Guttuso back in 1996, when Whitechapel Gallery in London exhibited some of
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Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski) revisited
Parenthesis: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a Balthus Exhibition “Cats and Girls“(September 25, 2013–January 12, 2014).
Continue readingThe painter Francis Bacon on Crucifixion
Introduction Crucifixion is the subject that attests to the fragility, the futility, the horror and at the utter impossibility of life. Live is
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