Articles by Alice Mansfield

About Alice Mansfield

A graduate of the Slade, Alice has painted and written about art all her life. With her children now having now grown up and departed the nest, she recently took up sculpture. More Posts

A Day at the Tate Modern

The last time I visited Tate Modern must have been 2017. It did not float my boat as modern art is too political for me. I was back there yesterday for the curated tour of our art and visual culture course from 1950 onwards. We started with German artist and sculptor Joseph Beuys. He was a keen [...]

November 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

No exhibitions nor art on telly this week but two fascinating lessons in our art course. In the first – on British art and visual culture 1950 to the present – we studied David Hockney and Francis Bacon. Hockney, though it was not compulsory, studied line at Bradford Art College and [...]

October 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Looking back at my art week money seems to be the dominant theme, whether it’s the artist or the museum provider. In our art course we studied Andy Warhol the ultimate consumer painter. Walking down Fifth Avenue after emigrating from Russia he was fascinated by the marketing of consumer objects [...]

October 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

On Monday I watched a Sky Arts programme on the Young Picasso which covered his early life in his birthplace Malaga, the family move to Corunna and then Barcelona where he launched himself. In 1900 he came to Paris. The quality of his work for one so young was staggering. Many – including me [...]

October 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

Normal service is resumed?

I was so looking forward to the resumption of my art class at the learning centre but the first reaction to me upon arrival was from one attendee brusquely saying I should not sit next to her as I was not wearing a mask. I banged my bag down at another space and glowered at her. This is the [...]

September 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Pending the return of my art courses next week, my art week concentrated more on two arts programmes on BBC4. The first was called Ego and was presented by Observer art critic Laura Cumming. She featured the art of self/portraiture. She started with a 1500 self portrait by and of Albrecht Dürer [...]

September 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

Yesterday I went to the home of my art tutor for lunch. Although we have a common interest in art conversation with her and her husband, a jazz drummer who has played with many of the greats, is wide ranging. She likes to talk of high-end dining, travel and her family and always comes up with some [...]

September 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Canaletto at the Holburne

As I left the Holburne museum in Bath I heard two men say of Canaletto: “They all look the same …” It’s a crude description but has some merit to it. Caneletto was a commercial painter sponsored by a clever, very wealthy businessman Joseph Smith, the English consul of Venice in [...]

August 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

Napoleon’s Plunder and the Theft of Veronese’s Feast/Cynthia Salzman

This is an account by Cynthia Salzman of the appropriation of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feat of Cana in 1796 by Napoleon. The painting hung on the refectory wall of the Santa Maggiore church in Venice commissioned by the Benedictine Order. Napoleon , just 26, had conquered most of the Italian [...]

July 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune BBC4 – (Mondays 8 pm)

For all its irritations I was pleased to watch another series of Fake or Fortune. Philip Mould, the cool art dealer, has been upgraded to joint presenter alongside Fiona Bruce and the courteous Dr Bendor Grosvenor is back as art expert and historian. This week they considered the authenticity [...]

June 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

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Managerial merry go round

February 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

Fabian Hürzeler is the latest Head Cosch to feel the pressure. He was booed on sunday aftsr Brighton’s disappointing lise to arch rivals Crystal Palace. I composed [...]
Beryl Cook

February 9, 2026 // 0 Comments

Many years ago I went to the National Theatre with a good friend who alas has now passed. I remember her but not the production. In the interval we wondered around the NT [...]
Thoughts on the Six Nations

February 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

It was no surprise- ar least not to me-that France best Ireland 36-14 as ‘les blues’ have so many world class players ( Bielle Barrey, Dupont , Ramos ) and the men in [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Everton 2

February 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

This was the classic game of 2 halves. Fulham dominated the first and should have gone into half time more than one goal up but David Moyes must have stirred his lads into [...]
Tv drama: new and old

February 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

I watched the final episode of “THE NIGHT MANAGER” and was disappointed. Aside from the acting of Hugh Laurie as Richard Roper, the amoral arms dealer, there was [...]