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Writing the Weimar Body by Claire Thomson

16th August 202218th August 2022  Claire Thomson

During lockdown, the study of German expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix, and their portrayals of women, made Claire Thomson recognise the stark truth of the body.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Dada, George Grosz, German Expressionism, Hannah Hoch, Karl Hofer, Lotte Lasertein, Marcel Duchamp, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Otto Dix, paintings, portraits, Rudolf Schlichter, Sylvia von Harden, Weimar Germany

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain

4th February 20214th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Before the second lockdown Toni Roberts saw Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s show Fly in League with the Night at Tate Britain. Here, she recalls vibrant paintings alive with stories, brilliant studies of people, and human relationships that transcend the canvas’ edges.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Andrea Schlieker, art, Cézanne, Fly in League with the Night, Francisco de Goya, Isabella Maidment, John Singer Sargent, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Manet, painting, portraits, portraiture, Tate, Tate Britain, Walter Sickert

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 at Tate Britain

8th December 2020  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic Year 3 project brings together more than 3000 class portraits from over 1500 primary schools to commemorate a most formative time in a child’s educational life. The result, says our writer Shamini Sriskandarajah, is at once illuminating and moving.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Childhood, children, Duveen Galleries, dyslexia, filmmaker, learning difficulties, London, Maria Balshaw, Photography, portraits, Primary schools, Small Axe, Steve McQueen, Tate, Tate Britain, Year 3
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