The Arts Desk - The Latest Visual Arts Reviews
In this week's visual arts coverage on The Arts Desk, there are plenty of big names to conjure with. The likes of Vermeer, Burra and Warhol feature, as well as the one major art prize that always gets people talking.
Often dividing opinion, the Turner Prize is an arbiter of the best contemporary visual art. 2011 is a sterling year and Martin Boyce's garden-like installation which cleverly riffs on the sculptural works of 1920s Modernists Joel and Jan Martel was hugely impressive. There were doubts however, over the work of George Shaw, which seemed to be too familiar to his earlier works.
Pulling off a rather special exhibition in 'Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence', was the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Many Dutch masters of the visual arts were included in the show, such as Pieter de Hooch and Nicholaes Maes. Women is the theme of the show, including the role that middle-class women played in domestic contexts.
The exhibition 'The Factory: Warhol and his Circle' are images taken of Andy Warhol and his entourage in and around the Factory throughout 1964-65. A different side to the era-defining artist is shown in these images and reveal the extent to which Warhol was constantly cultivating his own image with the utmost care.
Certainly about the painter rather than the presenter, 'I Never Tell Anybody Anything; The Life and Art of Edward Burra', a BBC Four documentary, delighted audiences. It provided a shrewd exploration of his work, as well as an in-depth and illuminating biography of the man.
Slightly disappointing was Joseph Steele's site-specific work, BIBLE, timed to chime in with the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. A six-metre manuscript was produced by the artist who spent months rewriting the New Testament during his convalescence from an illness, inserting his own name whenever Jesus was mentioned. The effect however, was not radical enough and was quite underwhelming.
Often dividing opinion, the Turner Prize is an arbiter of the best contemporary visual art. 2011 is a sterling year and Martin Boyce's garden-like installation which cleverly riffs on the sculptural works of 1920s Modernists Joel and Jan Martel was hugely impressive. There were doubts however, over the work of George Shaw, which seemed to be too familiar to his earlier works.
Pulling off a rather special exhibition in 'Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence', was the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Many Dutch masters of the visual arts were included in the show, such as Pieter de Hooch and Nicholaes Maes. Women is the theme of the show, including the role that middle-class women played in domestic contexts.
The exhibition 'The Factory: Warhol and his Circle' are images taken of Andy Warhol and his entourage in and around the Factory throughout 1964-65. A different side to the era-defining artist is shown in these images and reveal the extent to which Warhol was constantly cultivating his own image with the utmost care.
Certainly about the painter rather than the presenter, 'I Never Tell Anybody Anything; The Life and Art of Edward Burra', a BBC Four documentary, delighted audiences. It provided a shrewd exploration of his work, as well as an in-depth and illuminating biography of the man.
Slightly disappointing was Joseph Steele's site-specific work, BIBLE, timed to chime in with the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. A six-metre manuscript was produced by the artist who spent months rewriting the New Testament during his convalescence from an illness, inserting his own name whenever Jesus was mentioned. The effect however, was not radical enough and was quite underwhelming.
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Steve Alexander writes about the visual arts world. For more information and the latest visual art reviews, visit theartsdesk.com.
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