In this episode of the Tate podcast, The Art of, hear how artists have used comedy in their work throughout art history
It’s a piece that many of us will have seen unknowingly in our lives at some point kind
Tate glossary definition for metaphysical art: Early twentieth century Italian art movement typified by dream-like views of eerie arcaded squares with unexpected juxtapositions of objects
influential, most importantly on the development of the dream-like, or oneiric, kind
Tate glossary definition for post-painterly abstraction: A blanket term covering a range of new developments in abstract painting in the late 1950s and early 1960s characterised by a more rigorous approach to abstraction
What they created was a purely factual kind of art which, more than ever before,
Artist page for Guy Bourdin (1928–1991)
He set the stage for a new kind of fashion photography.
‘10. A Track Proceeding Forward from the Eye, Bounded by Groups of Objects‘, Alexander Cozens
A High Foreground, That Is to Say, a Large Kind of Object, or More than One.
‘14. A Close or Confined Scene, with Little or No Sky‘, Alexander Cozens
A High Foreground, That Is to Say, a Large Kind of Object, or More than One.
Listen to this episode of Tate’s Walks of Art podcast series, playwright and critic Bonnie Greer explores the lives and work of the Bloomsbury Group, including Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
There is a kind of honesty in the way that Grant lives his life.
Artist page for Jon Thompson (1936–2016)
and sculpture, but after his retirement from teaching Thompson concentrated on a kind
‘40. [title not known]‘, Alexander Cozens
A High Foreground, That Is to Say, a Large Kind of Object, or More than One.
[Translation/transcription] 1 Albert Studios 4 Albert Street NW1 7 December 1958 Dear Pepi, Just a few words, but not too many, because I don’t want to infect you with my pre-Christmas depression. These infernal Lupercalia darken my [illegible] with their ominous shadows. I hope you’re all well – I would have liked so much to have seen you all, but it’s quite impossible to escape this hell. Winter and lack of light make painting almost impossible. The cultural attaché from the German Embassy sent me a small cheque for a small picture – couldn’t come to the exhibition, nor was …
Kind regards to you both, in (eternal) haste, Erich Read more Archive context
