The migrant crisis has reached an acute state in Greece and Europe for more than one year now. Millions of people
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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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Today I present two paintings on a theme that has inspired two of my favourite painters: Paula Rego and Edvard Munch.
Continue readingEmil Nolde: At the Night Club (1911)
During my recent visit to Oslo’s National Gallery, I found time to “break” my complete and undivided attention to Edvard
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“Sickness and insanity were the black angels that guarded my cradle” Edvard Munch, personal manuscript. Background Edvard Munch is one of
Continue readingVoyage to Cythera: A film by Theo Angelopoulos
Angelopoulos’ movie is not a journey to a destination. It is a journey to infinite emptiness. Spiros is a
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
Continue readingThe Sum of all Evil (2012-13), an installation by the Chapman Brothers
In London’s idyllic Sackler Gallery one can see on display the Chapman Brothers’ masterpiece “The Sum of all Evil” (December
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