Jackie Wullschlager/2010

Articles: 2010

 * gifts'' - Art critic Jackie Wullschlager talks about her personal collection of paintings by 22-year-old Nathan Cash Davidson, who dramatises on canvas the relentless visual overload of his generation - 24th December
 * praise of older women'' - Old age among female artists and writers is the new chic. Creative women are emerging from the tunnel of obscure middle-age to rewrite their role in art history - 18th December
 * after Edward Said'' - A travelling exhibition now on display at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels shows how orientalism helped to inspire the modernist revolution - 11th December
 * Dürer'' - Norbert Wolf’s catalogue of the artist’s 55 paintings shows how he harmonised German late Gothic and the Italian ‘cinquecento’ - 4th December
 * Old Master who echoes our times'' - Lucas Cranach, chief artist of the Reformation, was an innovator who, like Warhol or Koons, seized the commercial potential of working in series and turned images into icons - 27th November
 * in Paris'' - A retrospective marks the 50th birthday of the African-American artist whose works embodied everything noisy, exhilarating and cynical about the revival of figurative painting in the 1980s - 20th November
 * and Gérôme exhibitions in Paris'' - The French capital brilliantly dramatises both the 19th century’s aesthetic battleground and its lively, essential continuation today - 13th November
 * Kossoff, Annely Juda Fine Art, London'' -T he artist’s genius has always been to depict the chaos of the world at the instant at which an image seems to cohere and form before our eyes - 6th November
 * Wullschlager reviews Charles Saatchi’s latest exhibitions in Lille and London'' - ‘The Silk Road’, a selection of fine Asian and Middle Eastern works, launched within a week of ’Newspeak 2’ and the contrast between the pair is startling - 6th November
 * Art Show 7'' - Four works in this exhibition wonderfully demonstrate contemporary art’s diversity, originality, formal mastery and exhilarating capacity for renewal - 30th October
 * Lawrence’s portraits'' - The great portraitist fixed the hedonism of the Regency era in a style exuberantly evocative of today’s ‘X-Factor’ showiness - 23rd October
 * golden age of Venetian art'' - An exhibition at the National Gallery shows how the works of Canaletto – and his rivals, precursors and followers – acted as a counterpoint to the city’s decline - 16th October
 * speaks to our times'' - Four publications mark the increased interest in the 17th-century painter whose pictorial world of violent sensuality still resonates today - 9th October
 * glory of Gauguin'' - The French post-Impressionist artist was the force that unleashed the primitivism that made modern art possible - 2nd October
 * treasures from a Budapest museum'' - A cache of spectacular but rarely seen pieces not only offer thrilling perspectives but, as Jackie Wullschlager observes, a glimpse into Hungary’s unique history - 25th September
 * Pre-Raphaelites’ love of Italy'' - The Ashmolean’s new exhibition explores how the Renaissance became the prism through which 19th-century artists fought out their aesthetic battles - 18th September
 * Lichtenstein’s engagement with modernism'' - An exhibition at Cologne’s Ludwig Museum shows how the US pop pioneer evolved a new pictorial language using art history itself as a motif - 21st August
 * walking tall'' -The summer exhibition at the Fondation Maeght is an insider-view retrospective based on the import ant holdings of the Swiss artist’s Parisian gallerist - 14th August
 * the garden with Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne'' - The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh’s sumptuous summer show of impressionism’s love affair with gardens is an easy, out-and-out crowd-puller - 7th August
 * Mitchell show in Edinburgh'' - Jackie Wullschlager examines the abstract expressionist’s experience as an American in France and woman in a man’s movement - 31st July
 * Cartier-Bresson to Wolfgang Tillmans'' - Jackie Wullschlager on four books that claim iconic stature for certain artists and probe what gives photography a unique place in the cultural canon - 24th July
 * show of world-class surrealist works'' - The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art displays its extensive holdings in the field – including works by Dalí, Ernst and Magritte – for the very first time - 17th July
 * German trio reunited'' - Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt, ‘the triumvirate of German impressionism’, are reunited in a seminal show - 10th July
 * Dürer that wasn’t'' - ‘Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries’ at the National Gallery shows art forgeries’ potential for transcendence - 3rd July
 * on site'' - Normandy is flooded this summer with rewarding shows that display stunning, rarely seen works by masters of the movement in the settings where they were created - 19th June
 * Matisse together again'' - These shimmering exhibitions of the great contrasting duo of 20th-century art enhance one another - 12th June
 * Saatchi’s ‘Newspeak’'' - Installations steal the show that features random juxtapositions of some 30 artists mostly born in the 1970s - 5th June
 * in a new photography exhibition'' - For a show whose theme is so all-encompassing, quality and historical importance are the only possible criteria for selection – but Tate Modern’s omissions are glaring - 29th May
 * at Tate Liverpool'' - Tate Liverpool’s high-profile show paints the master in his last, quixotic decades as a tireless political activist - 22nd May
 * bit of a Renaissance'' - What we do with the epoch defines how we see ourselves, which is why this current crop of histories is so mordantly entertaining and illuminating - 15th May
 * Katz at the NPG'' - A new exhibition shows an artist at the peak of his game and more radical than a younger generation of American portrait painters who remain under his spell - 14th May
 * - Jackie Wullschlager tailors a massive but charmingly accessible biography of the Russian-French painter - 10th May
 * Sander at the Tate Modern'' - As Tate Modern marks its 10th anniversary, five new photography galleries are set to open. At their core is a superb showcase of the father of modern German photography - 8th May
 * to abstraction'' - Two new exhibitions on the visual art most resistant to words reveal that American art has always been about surface - 1st May
 * Greco à Dalí’: One man’s passion for the Spanish school'' - ‘Du Greco à Dalí’, the paintings amassed by Mexican industrialist Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, is a marvellous example of an Old Master collection built from scratch - 10th April
 * Greco at Bozar, Brussels'' - The show provides an intimate encounter with the painter’s style and the dawning of Spanish psychological portraiture - 3rd April
 * fresh approach to Lucian Freud’s art'' - The painter’s show at the Pompidou references a studio teeming with drama - 27th March
 * at the National Gallery'' - Denmark’s greatest painter takes his place among the European masters of the early 19th century - 20th March
 * and Albert at Buckingham Palace'' - Jackie Wullschlager on an extraordinarily personal collection that commemorates the marriage, and tastes, of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch - 13th March
 * Hamilton, political painter'' - The British artist has created a compelling new version of the beleaguered genre of history painting - 6th March
 * Moore at Tate Britain'' - The sculptor who consoled the postwar era with smooth and rounded figures has been dismissed as nostalgic. An exhibition sets out to overhaul his reputation - 27th February
 * to JG Ballard'' - Jackie Wullschlager on an ambitious show that pays homage to JG Ballard, the ‘artist’s writer‘ and prophet of dystopia - 20th February
 * Gorky at Tate Modern'' - This finely tuned retrospective brings the artist alive as painterly painter as well as art-historical pivot, fleshing out how his theme is drawn into his every stroke - 13th February
 * Doesburg at Tate Modern'' - The exhibition on the Dutch abstract painter highlights the contrast between his work and that of his more famous contemporary, Piet Mondrian - 6th February
 * Gogh’s letters shed light on his work'' - The artist appears greater and deeper than ever, both as man and artist, in the Royal Academy’s new exhibition of the painter’s copious correspondence - 23rd January
 * prime selection of Scottish colourists'' - An investment banker’s cherry-picked collection of Scottish art has moved from boardroom to public gallery - 16th January
 * Jewish art into focus'' - Marc Chagall’s most important response to the second world war is an anguished gouache, ink and pencil crucifixion in grey and lilac evoking an arresting mix of terror and beauty - 9th January