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Image description: Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein Right now it’s hard to imagine Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and Henri Matisse sitting in a room together, yet this was a common occurrence at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s. They were united by Gertrude Stein, whose weekly […]
Continue ReadingAs I walk from one of Matisse’s renditions of Icarus to another, I overhear a curator saying: “We really shouldn’t throw around the term ‘once in a lifetime’, but I can’t think of a better occasion”. On my second time around the exhibition’s 14 rooms, I’m pretty certain he’s right. This is an exhibition of […]
Continue ReadingEver feel like the only ignoramus in a roomful of culture aficionados? If you can’t be a buff, learn to bluff… Need To Know • Early twentieth-century art movement that began in the early 1900s and lasted only a few short years. Characterised by an emphasis on painterly qualities and bold colour palettes, with highly […]
Continue ReadingIn 1964 Life magazine asked whether Roy Lichtenstein, the subject of the Tate Modern’s latest retrospective was “the worst artist in the US”. Fifty years on, Lichtenstein’s iconic style of dots, dashes, speech bubbles and primary colours has become embedded in our perception of Pop art and 1960s America. Upon entering the first room, the […]
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