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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 […]
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The Ashmolean’s new feature exhibition Degas to Picasso aims to chart over a century’s worth of artistic change in the movement towards modernism in France. Drawing from the private collection of Ursula and R. Stanley Johnson, the exhibition contrasts new works against those which are more familiar. The range is expansive to the extent that […]
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Linda Nochlin, in her 1988 book Women, Art and Power and Other Essays, asks, “Why are there no great female artists?” The answer is that we are looking in the wrong places. Rather than unearthing unappreciated women artists from history, or rediscovering forgotten female painters, “ the question involves shifting the ground slightly and asserting, as some contemporary […]
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