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Edinburgh Museums: National Gallery/Portrait Gallery

It’s a difficult question for a national museum as to whether it should showcase national art or collect masterpieces from beyond the borders. The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, whilst showing its Turners, was weighted towards Italian Renaissance and French Art. The northern renaissance [...]

July 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Gleneagles Hotel

Bob Tickler had it right. After the student accommodation, the Rust Group felt they were entitled to some pampering and where better to get it than the Gleneagles Hotel? It’s the place where the Gleneagles Agreement – effectively banning apartheid South Africa from sport – was [...]

July 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

David Hockney’s Eye/Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

The weekend took me up to Cambridge for the opening of my college library. I used the opportunity to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum which I did not know as much as I should. There I saw one of the best curated exhibitions I have ever visited. The theme was to set David Hockney’s works alongside the [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Glyn Philpot/ Flesh and Spirit – Pallant House Chichester

Pallant House has done much to raise the profile of 20th century British art. In recent years I have seen exhibitions of Leon Underwood and John Minton. Now it is the turn of Glyn Philpot. Philpot was an immensely successful society portraitist in the 1920s who moved to Paris in the 1930s where he [...]

June 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations – a National Rust view

We asked our correspondents in various fields for their views on last weekend’s Celebrations. SPORT I thought sport was underrepresented. We have had three World Cup wins by men during Her Majesty’s reign – in Football, Cricket and Rugby Union. Women have won four in Cricket and 2 in [...]

June 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

The delights of Rottingdean

Whilst I – we – were all so delighted to be travelling abroad again one must not forget the delights Great Britain has to offer. Yesterday I had cause to visit Rottingdean, only a couple of miles from my home. It suffers from too much traffic travelling from the A27 to the coastal road [...]

May 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Nice considered

Over rose on the balcony, the virtues of Nice were considered by the group. I offered the traditional view of the blueness of the Bay. Bob observed that there was a pleasing contrast between the quaintness of the Old Town and the commercial centre of high-end shopping. Polly offered the view that [...]

April 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

National Treasures/Caroline Shenton

National Treasures -Saving the Nation’s Art in World War could easily have been a dull record of logistics but Caroline Shenton’s humour, readability and depiction of colourful characters involved spares it from that fate It was a considerable task and achievement to save the paintings of the [...]

April 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bacon and Woman in White at the Royal Academy

For years I did not “get” Bacon. I did not like his contorted twisted forms, nightmarish figures and the liberal use of red paint. I also thought his licentious lifestyle formed an unnecessary part of his artistic reputation. One of the famous stories was of a friend bumping into him in St. [...]

April 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Basquiat, conceptual and abstract expressionism

In the last few courses we have studied Jean Michel Basquiat, conceptual art, essentially political slogans,  and abstract expressionism. For me the key point about all these is whether the artist understands the grammar of drawing, colour, form and composition. I draw a comparison with Fernand [...]

March 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

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