Ever since yesterday’s post I’ve been puzzling over my response to the work of Pierre Bonnard, whose current exhibition at London’s Tate Modern I reviewed. I have tried to put my specific observations about his painting into a more general context, and I’ve come up with the following framework. If we ask ourselves what work … Read more
I’ve just returned from an art frenzy in London, and I’m really quite exhausted. I looked at the Bill Viola/Michaelangelo show at the Royal Academy, then the Pierre Bonnard exhibition at the Tate Modern. Finally, I went to St. Paul’s Cathedral, to look at the recent permanent exhibition of two Bill Viola pieces there. I … Read more
I think that I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I’m reading Julian Barnes’ book of essays on art, Keeping an Eye Open. My response to Barnes varies between appreciating the freshness of his ideas and being annoyed at his oddity. I guess that these are pretty close to each other on a continuum of … Read more