The Lure and Blur of Photorealism
The 2013 portrait of Kate Middleton by Paul Emsley has an eerie effect on the eye. Hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, the image has a composition that is quite […]
Tag Archives: Art
The Concept of Conceptual Art
Almost a century ago, the artist Marcel Duchamp turned a urinal 90 degrees on its side, signed it ‘R. MUTT 1917’ and submitted it to New York’s Society for Independent […]
Donna Tartt: Reviving the Old-Fashioned Artist
Whoever said ‘Only an idiot would try to get rich by writing a book’ touched on a kind of reality. We’ve all seen how the greatest of artists can lurk […]
Slow Photography
I was on the metro in Paris one evening when two voices broke the communal trance. An American tourist was complaining that all ten photos taken of her on the […]
The Culturist 