The first room of the exhibition took my breath away, and then the next room, and the next room and the next room. As soon as you walk in the colours of the paintings just vibrate off the canvas as a life force - its like Hockney has put together this complete vision of existence and colour.
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So does this show live up to the hype? Yes, yes, yes! With so much written about this exhibition and queues wending their way around the National Gallery the big question is was it going to actually be any good when you got inside. Even celebs were busting to get in with gossip that Jeremy Irons had...
Who would have guessed that the small and quirky magic realism paintings that Freud painted in his early career would presage the huge and almost violent nudes he went on to paint. This is one of the best Freud shows I’ve seen as it lulls you into a false sense of security with the gentle, lyr...
I must remember not to read the white sheet of doom when I go to exhibitions. It's too easy to wander in, grab the sheet and read a short description about everything you will see with an explanation about how it reveals certain things about Cocaine and the drug trade in Mexico - you find yourself s...
There's colours you don't quite know in this show, but you want to see them again and again - it's like eating an oyster and that flavour you can't quite put your finger on - you want to try it again to try and see if you can get closer to identifying it
Take Monet's painting Geese in the Brook -...
This show has torn up my view of the Pre-Ralphaelites. Instead of being bored by the neurotic detail of these paintings I’m now wooed by it as if these works were weird ‘retina-display’ visions; and instead of finding the languid women cheesy there’s a feeling of people tryin...
As a rule I never usually allow myself to take more than three or four contact cards per show, but during my visit at Slade I could not help myself, eventually leaving with 10 business cards of artists whom I was interested in.
The Goldsmiths show was ok; there were some works of very...
I enjoyed going to this show more than I have enjoyed going to lots of shows recently. It had a really good feeling of variety to it and really got me thinking about the kind of works I make - it inspired me for some reason. Maybe as it’s not some dry big gallery exhibition you could still fee...
As soon as you step out of the lift you are surrounded on all sides by colour, crashing and washing over you like a luxurious wave of visual sensuality. One of the people at the bank said that all the dark portraits of the founders of the bank had been removed and replaced with this burst of light.
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Wow! This art fair is good, really really good - I’d expected to see some great examples of modern art and old masters but I hadn’t expected all the other eclectic works on offer here from Egyptian statues to Indian Miniature paintings to a collection of boomerangs.
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Now to be honest I wasn’t too sure what to expect when I was asked to review The South London Black Music Archive by Barby Asante as I knew there would be no paintings or sculptures to sink my teeth into.
The show consisted of old t-shirts, magazines, ticket stubs and record sle...
Overall I enjoyed this year's fair - but as can often happen it all felt a but underwhelming at the beginning. Maybe it's just because there's so much to look at that it's difficult to decide where to start, but once you find something you like, you begin to get into the vibe.
It migh...
iD is a group exhibition curated by Antoni Ferrer featuring five international artists: Risk Hazemkamp, David Hancock, Sarah Baker, Caron Geary and Brigitte Stepputtis. The work is diverse and revolves around the concept of identity.
The work of Sarah Baker expresses an entertaini...
The Paintings of Teresita Dennis: The Excess of the Future
By Jonathan Miles
“In seeking God’s eye, I found only a socket,
Vast, black, and bottomless, from which an inhabitant night
Spreads over the world ever-thickening beams;”
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´Panta Rhei´ is a 57 x 50 cm oil painting, on a found painting by Keith Tyson. The original painting was a scene of a sailing boat and was found in a second hand shop, which the artist has painted over with a contemporary harbour scene. ´In that little Panta Rhei painting where I h...
It’s always exciting to see what is new in the world of design, and how much it progresses from year to year. In a world where some of those in the know believe that art has evolved as far as it can, design continues to grow, becoming more and more sophisticated, largely due to the demands of ...
What you’ve got to give Charles Saatchi is the consistency he has in his choice of art. It is a brand - there’s always an element of unsettling surprise, maybe a hint of disgust and certainly something that might just tip you over the edge and make you completely insane if you were havin...
What an amazing show! Just a few hundred yards from White Cube's Bermondsey Space I wandered into this OC Art Society exhibition last Thursday and was pleasanty surprised by what I found. Not only some really great paintings, but film, photography and sculpture by past pulpils from the school Charte...
Do you want to see some exquisite paintings with extraordinary and imaginative colours? Then this is the exhibition you should go to.
I remember a gallerist saying to me, “How can you be imaginative with colour,” well this is the answer. It’s especially interesting to see ...
What a relief! An exhibition where you don’t need to read the explanation on the wall before you know what the work is supposed to be about. It’s all there for you in the painting. Lictenstein has left nothing that needs to be explained or based on a post-modernist philosophy - it’...
Graham Crowley, painter and Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art from 1998 - 2006 in conversation with ArtTop10.com Founder Robert Dunt.
Part 1: Education and Being Taught to Think
Part 2: Figurative and Abstract Painting
Part 3: Wall Furniture and the Art Mar...
You can see the interview with Tate Britain curator Lizzie Jacklin below, where she discusses the EY Exhibiton: Impressionists in London with ArtTop10 Founder Robert Dunt.
The ArtTop10.com review of Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain - is it a show for everyone, or just for cliques in the art world?
Review by Robert Dunt, Founder of ArtTop10.com
ArtTop10.com Founder Robert Dunt goes on a walk and talk around the latest Collyer Bristow Gallery exhibition, Strangelands, with the Curator Rosalind Davis. The artist Justin Hibbs also talks about his work.
