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Book Review
Piet Mondrian: A Life
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 213
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
art literature:
Biographies
artists:
Mondrian, Piet
subjects:
Modernism / Dutch art / Art criticism / Formalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Piet Mondrian: A Life By Hans Janssen. 464 pp. incl.numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Ridinghouse, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–909932–51–7. | :
Book Review
Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism. By Sam Rose
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 164-165
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Reviewer:
Kemp, Gary (Kemp, Gary)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.)
subjects:
Formalism / Aesthetics / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism By Sam Rose. 224 pp. incl. 27 b. & w. ills. (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA, 2019), £27.95. ISBN 978–0–271–08238–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Baptism of Christ, by Piero della Francesca (c.1488–50; National Gallery, London), with indications of halves and thirds. Drawing by Andrew Demetrius after an illustration in Patterns of Intention by Michael Baxandall, New Haven and London, 1985.
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Vasily Kandinsky and the Formal method
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1016-1023
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Author:
Bowlt, John E. (Bowlt, John E.)
Subjects
art literature:
Punin, Nikolay / Tarabukin, Nikolay
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Popova, Liubov / Rodchenko, Aleksander / Stepanova, Varvara / Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir / Gan, Aleksey / Burlyuk, David / Kulbin, Nikolay
dates:
1900-1949 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences), Moscow, Russia
places:
Russia
subjects:
Russian painting / Russian School / Russian Revolution, Russia / Communism / Marxism / Formalism / Formal analysis / Art theory / Criticism / Art criticism / Art critics / Artists' writings / Literature / Language / Music / Mysticism / Occultism / Spirituality / Science / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Colour / Constructivist / Abstract art / Aesthetics / Taste (aesthetics) / Perception / Study and teaching / Engineering
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Elementary life of the primary colour and its dependence on the simplest locale, by Vasily Kandinsky. Illustration to the lecture ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ delivered by Nikolai Kul’bin on Kandinsky’s behalf at the All-Russian Congress of Artists, St Petersburg, 29th and 31st December 1911. Published in Russian in I. Repin et al.: Trudy Vserossiiskogo s’ezda khudozhnikov (Transactions of the All-Russian Congress of artists), Petrograd 1914, I, pp.76–77.
Attributed works:
2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
Attributed works:
3. Tsikl lektsii (Cycle of lectures), by Nikolay Punin. Petrograd 1920. Cover designed by Kazimir Malevich. (Photograph courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Black lines, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1913. 129.4 by 131.1 cm. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Painting with the red spot, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1914. Canvas, 130 by 130 cm. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Members of RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences) in the building of Svomas (Free State Art Studios), Moscow, June 1921. From left to right: Robert Fal’k, Evsei Shor, Nikolai Uspensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Evgenii Pavlov and Aleksandr Shenshin. Reproduced in C. Derouet and J. Boissel, eds.: exh. cat. Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou) 1984, p.156.
Exhibition Review
Patrick Heron. Turner Contemporary, Margate
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 950-952
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Reviewer:
Treves, Toby (Treves, Toby)
Subjects
artists:
Heron, Patrick
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Tate St Ives, Saint Ives, Great Britain / Turner Contemporary, Margate, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / St Ives / Margate
subjects:
British painting / French painting / Style / Abstract art / Figurative art / Tachiste / Landscapes (visual works) / Interior views / Formalism / Perception / Colour
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Installation view of Patrick Heron at Tate St Ives, 2018.
Attributed works:
2. Mainly ultramarine and venetian: November 1966, by Patrick Heron. 1966. Canvas, 182.9 by 213.4 cm. (Private collection; exh. Turner Contemporary, Margate).
Attributed works:
3. Sydney garden painting: December 1989: II, by Patrick Heron. 1989. Canvas, 152.4 by 213.4 cm. (Private collection; © Estate of Patrick Heron; exh. Turner Contemporary, Margate).