Edvard Munch: Color in Context, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, 2017

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August Macke’s untimely death: 26 September 1914

August Macke was born in 1887 and died in September 1914 in the trenches of Champagne, at the age of

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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)

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The 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

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Paula 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.

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Edvard 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

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Painting 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

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Two 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

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Renato 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). 

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