Ernst Barlach, The Avenger, 1922. Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg. I can’t remember when I fell in love with the work of Ernst Barlach, about whom I will be talking on Monday 26 May. It could have been soon after the opening of Tate Modern, 25 years ago, when I included a version of today’s workContinue reading “249 – Rushing to the wrong conclusion (or, How to Look at Sculpture)”
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Asking again: painted by a madman?
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895. Private Collection. If you think I’m being rude – or insensitive – I should point out that the title of today’s post is simply a quotation, in English, from the words that Edvard Munch himself wrote on the first (or second) version of The Scream. An infrared photo of theContinue reading “Asking again: painted by a madman?”
A Second Storm
Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917. New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester. I’m looking forward to talking about the Expressionists exhibition at Tate Modern this Monday, 20 May at 6pm, but as I’m currently in Delft with Artemisia I’m going to re-post something I wrote for Making Modernism, the Royal Academy’s 2022 exhibitionContinue reading “A Second Storm”
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