Stories By Candy Bedworth
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20th century
Painting of the Week: David Hockney, A Bigger Splash
August 4, 2019David Hockney is one of Britain’s most well known and influential artists. His iconic style is instantly recognisable. As you hunch over your work, dreaming of a summer break, let’s take a look at his painting...
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20th century
Take a Trip with Rosemary Ellis
July 11, 2019As we head into summer holiday season, let’s take a look back at the gorgeous travel posters designed by British artist Rosemary Ellis. One of the most prominent illustrators of her age, Rosemary Ellis is not...
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Art History 101
I Put a Spell on You – Vodou Art
June 19, 2019Vodou is one of the most misunderstood belief systems in the world. Derided by the Church and popular culture, in fact it is a fascinating system of ethics, culture, agriculture, cosmology, folklore and medicine. Its foundations...
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20th century
Lee Krasner and the Art of Starting Over
June 11, 2019Lee Krasner’s name has become much more widely known in recent years. Often referred to as the wife of Jackson Pollock, she was, of course, a great artist in her own right. The Barbican Gallery in...
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dailyart
Painting of the Week: Paula Modersohn Becker, Reclining Mother and Child II
June 2, 2019Does any image say primal love more than this powerful painting by Paula Modersohn Becker? As we head into International Children’s Day, it seems right to make Painting of the Week one that includes not just...
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21st century
Geek Art
May 25, 2019The geek-art community has an affluent and acquisitive sub culture that has a seemingly insatiable thirst for paintings, models and sculptures. Pop culture, fantasy literature, comic books, manga, sci fi and cult movies – all of...
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dailyart
In Silent Expectation – Another Place by Antony Gormley
May 11, 2019Driving out of Liverpool, past run-down warehouses and dockside cranes, I wonder if I’ve taken a wrong turn. But 10 minutes later I see signs to ‘Another Place’ and pull in to a desolate, wind-whipped car...
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Art State of Mind
Apollo and Daphne #metoo
April 24, 2019In Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses, boastful, arrogant God Apollo is mad with love for the virginal river nymph Daphne after being shot with a golden arrow by Eros. Daphne however wishes to remain unmarried and spurns him....
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Ancient
Sacred Signs – Prehistoric Sculpture
April 9, 2019It seems that forming figurative shapes out of natural materials has always been with us. As humans developed, a bigger, more sophisticated brain allowed for more processing power and higher functions such as language and creative...
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Art State of Mind
Moondance. Full Moon in Painting
March 21, 2019This week sees the Vernal Equinox, when those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere start to tilt towards the sun. The days begin to get longer, and Spring beckons. At the same time we...
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