What’s Hot

Last Monday there was a fascinating programme on Sky Arts on the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Lucian Freud’s portraits. Like Rembrandt he was a prolific self portraitist. To do this you need a mirror which immediately creates a distorted image. Martin Gayford the art historian wrote an [...]

Last week in our art course we studied Edgar Degas and Diego Velazquez. The current trend in art is to look at the personal life of an artist. Paul Gauguin, for example, came in for severe criticism prior to his recent exhibition at the Royal Academy for leaving his family to marry a young Tahitian [...]