Jackie Wullschlager



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Full name: Jackie Wullschlager

Area of interest: Arts

Journals: Financial Times

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Education: Oxford University

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Current position/role: chief visual arts critic


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Books & Debate:

 * Inventing wonderland: the lives and fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A.A. Milne OCLC 33817706, 1995
 * Hans Christian Andersen: the life of a storyteller OCLC 44769106, 2001

Latest work: Chagall: a biography OCLC 192048175, 2008

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Column remit: Art and literary criticism

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Articles: 2011

 * new focus on the pre-Raphaelites'' - Jackie Wullschlager reviews Birmingham’s groundbreaking exhibition that traces the movement’s roots in drawing and the shared rejection of academicism that first spurred these artists - 29th January
 * selection'' - The Royal Academy’s new show offers a perverse overview of modern British sculpture - 22nd January
 * morsels'' - Jackie Wullschlager on a collection of remarkable European paintings gathered by a few passionately committed connoisseurs in Chichester - 15th January



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



Articles: 2009

 * artists and the human body'' - The Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition of the works of John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Stanley Spencer illustrates how British art took no single highway to the modern - 19th December
 * compelling printmaker'' - Not surprisingly for a painter of such delayed, fraught eloquence, printmaking did not come easily for Howard Hodgkin - 12th December
 * of the ordinary'' - Four books testify that debate continues to rage around Andy Warhol’s contribution – his early versus his late works – and his role as Pop artist versus philosopher versus celebrity - 5th December
 * Medieval and Renaissance galleries'' - After a seven-year restructuring, the once languishing sections of the museum have finally reopened and are both an aesthetic and intellectual triumph - 5th December
 * force that has driven art for 100 years'' - Parasol Unit’s group show features four artists who explore how to capture perceptual experience while making work that asserts its status as painting, not mere recapitulation of reality - 28th November
 * at the Helly Nahmad Gallery'' - Jackie Wullschlager on a rare and unnerving exhibition of high-calibre works from the French master that were kept in private hands for a century - 21st November
 * Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary'' - The new kid on the block of public art galleries launches with what Jackie Wullschlager calls a sexy, funny, scholarly and extremely relevant show by the illustrator of genius - 14th November
 * art critic turns curator'' - Being a ‘discerning eye’ for an annual event gave Jackie Wullschlager a chance to play fantasy collector – and to be judged by display of her chosen pieces - 7th November
 * interests of 20th-century sculptors'' - Two new exhibitions explore works that exploited primitivist themes of fertility, sexuality and maternity, reshaping representation in shocking fashion - 31st October
 * motifs of Christian suffering'' - Grisly realism serves a sacred purpose in a revelatory exhibition at the National Gallery - 24th October
 * Hirst, Wallace Collection, London'' - The British artist’s latest move, 25 paintings made with his own hand, abounds with deliberate self-references and shows that his sense of zeitgeist is unfaltering - 17th October
 * Perry'' - Clear, generous and insightful, this lavish monograph positions the ceramic artist – most likely a national treasure – in both historical and contemporary contexts - 13th October
 * about town'' - the top choices from the plethora of London shows riding the Frieze wave - 10th October
 * artist as global brand'' - Tate Modern’s brave ‘Pop Life’ exhibition explores how Andy Warhol’s ‘descendants’ harnessed the power of celebrity to expand their reach beyond museums - 3rd October
 * firing of many guns'' - The juxtaposition of works at the Tate Britain exhibit illustrates how Turner has deconstructed the past – part in homage, part in rebellion – to lead to his own triumphs - 26th September
 * Van Gogh’s letters reveal of his life'' - Reed-pen drawings of finished works alongside prose descriptions that cannot be bettered demonstrate incontrovertibly that when the artist painted he was not mad but extremely lucid - 19th September
 * modernist art and literature interacted'' - Two exhibitions in the south of France explore how avant-garde poet Blaise Cendrars influenced the artists Picasso, Léger and Chagall - 12th September
 * Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries'' - The shortlist shows a rise of confidence in painting and sculpture as they shake off conceptual influences - 5th September
 * English Rebel'' - Revolts have shaped England’s character as incontrovertibly and effectively as the monarchs and law-givers they challenged - 11th August
 * Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou'' - A retrospective shows the Russian painter’s works not just as a progress to abstraction, says Jackie Wullschlager, but as variations on shifting realities as an exile - 25th July
 * at the National Gallery'' - A show dramatises how the achievement of half a century of French landscape painters was a crucible in art history - 18th July
 * Peyton at the Whitechapel Gallery'' - The American painter is an illustrator and a fabulist, conjuring a ‘fin-de-siècle’ fairytale from the way we live now - 11th July
 * Face to the World'' - This vivid, insightful and superbly illustrated study explores the extraordinary power of the self-portrait - 14th July
 * at Tate Modern'' - The exhibition marks the centenary of a manifesto proclaiming the art movement and presents a panorama of works that explore the limits of form and abstraction - 20th June
 * east comes to the biennale'' - Individualistic and sincerely expressive art from the Middle East and south-west Asian states finds its place in the diversity of off-site Venice - 14th June
 * Biennale’s ‘delicious anachronism’'' - The antiquated elitism of the national pavilions at the festival distinguishes this queen of art fairs from all the others - 12th June
 * America’ at Saatchi Gallery'' - The artists, like Saatchi, are skilled at the niche marketing necessary to attract attention in a global marketplace - 30th May
 * art at two London galleries'' - Moscow’s conceptual art is vibrant, distinctive and passionately engaged with its past. Whether it yet transcends local issues to embrace a global present is less certain - 15th May
 * at Musée d’Orsay'' - Jackie Wullschlager examines an evocative exhibition that recreates the response of a generation of artists to the haunting presence of the 19th-century sculptor - 8th May
 * Modern’s new annual display'' - Changes to the permanent collections of the museum are illuminating, refreshing and coherent in positioning it as a temple of conceptualism - 1st May
 * it like Peckham'' - The Peckham eight punch beyond their years, yet exhibit a youthful ebullience that is always exhilarating - 25th April
 * Paris retrospective of de Chirico'' - 10th April
 * at the Whitechapel'' - With Open Sesame!, the world’s first retrospective of German artist Isa Genzken, the relaunched, expanded Whitechapel Gallery declares itself as both international player and a museum rooted in local identity - 3rd April
 * Warhol’s paintings at Grand Palais'' - 27th March
 * Hirst without the glitz'' - not only has Hirst towered over the Young British Art movement; the strength of his cold, clinical vision and impersonal tone has more or less crippled the evolution of any other sort of art by his generation in the UK - 20th March
 * at the National Portrait Gallery'' - 14th March
 * artists evolve a unique visual language'' - Is women’s art different from men’s? - 6th March
 * art dealer’s gift to the British'' - Anne and Anthony d’Offay’s unparalleled international collection of modern and contemporary art is about to go public in a series of 20 exhibitions to be staged up and down Britain - 28th February
 * geometries'' - In 1914, as war dissolved artistic circles in Paris, Munich and Berlin, the opposite happened in Moscow - 14th February
 * Britain's triennial'' - What sort of art needs a new name? - 6th July
 * of exile and survival'' - Is there a Jewish art?" Harold Rosenberg asked at New York's Jewish Museum in 1966 - 24th January
 * the futurist'' - Was Umberto Boccioni the greatest sculptor the 20th century never had? - 14th January
 * Sean Scully reinvigorates abstract painting - The artist renewed the movement with poetry that at once reasserted its links with late modernism and carried it through to the 21st century - 9th January
 * Walk to the Moon - The image on the jacket embodies the isolated but luminous imaginative world of Albert Houthuesen and entices us into his story - 5th January



Articles: 2008

 * Not so happily ever after - Whether the fairy tale has flourished in popular culture, or been diluted and diminished by global branding, is a question raised by a range of new books on the genre - 20th December 2008
 * Breathing fresh life into a faded genre - Jackie Wullschlager reviews two landscape shows that are among the most optimistic and enjoyable exhibitions currently riding high on brilliant gloom - 20th December 2008
 * Paintings in Proust - This visual companion to the French writer’s work is the year’s most seductively intelligent art book - 15th December 2008
 * Indian art defies global conceptualism - Local strengths still manage to speak louder in the UK’s most ambitious attempts yet to distil coherence into the rush of works from the subcontinent. Interesting because it is so unlikely - 12th December 2008
 * Bittersweet modern Russian art - Two shows concentrate on photography, film and installation, and argue persuasively for a continuing distinctive sensibility in Russian art - 6th December 2008
 * The History of British Art - Tate’s account is bold attempt to return those on the historical margins to the mainstream - 6th December 2008
 * The perceptual world - Painting in the 21st century now looks distinctive: surfaces are dizzying, references are sophisticated. Jackie Wullschlager reviews the work of two prodigious British artists - 29th November 2008
 * Fitzwilliam Museum’s centenary show - The Cambridge institution celebrates the flair and aesthetics of its former director Sydney Cockerell, who Jackie Wullschlager sees as a caricature of an exhibitionist - 22nd November 2008
 * Paintings from the 1980s - For Jackie Wullschlager, the Tate Modern exhibition recaptures the heady, over-the-top mood of the 1980s, with canvases dramatising America’s need for a new aesthetic - 15th November 2008
 * Creating space for contemporary art - For Charles Saumarez Smith, Royal Academy of Arts chief, the institution’s newest event strives to cut through the genres of conventional art practice - 1st November 2008
 * Renaissance portraiture - A show at the National Gallery during Frieze week shows that the more human individuality is threatened, the more intensely we turn to painted portraits - 25th October 2008
 * Chagall’s roots in Russia - In researching her new biography of the émigré, Jackie Wullschlager discovers that no artist had a richer, more intensely ambivalent relationship with his homeland - 18th October 2008
 * Lunch with the FT: Sam Taylor-Wood - 17th October 2008
 * A museum of one’s own - Worldwide a new generation of collectors seek immortality in extravagant establishments of glass and steel, designed by an architect of their choosing - 11th October 2008
 * The stuff of people’s prayers and dreams - Charles Saatchi’s inaugural exhibition at his new gallery in Chelsea is the most persuasive showing of contemporary Chinese art yet mounted in Britain - 11th October 2008
 * Maeght: The great postwar art dealer - A heartbreakingly beautiful show celebrates the last epoch when artists were unquestioningly, compulsively makers and constructors - 4th Octover 2008
 * Grand tour of Italy - Jackie Wullschlager takes her family on a three-week, cross-country rendezvous with the country’s historic towns - 4th October 2008
 * Mark Rothko at Tate Modern - The exhibition focuses on the artist’s difficult late period of impenetrable canvases, marked by deep brooding reds shading to purple and black - 26th September 2008
 * Formal splendour, ugly panic - Francis Bacon’s Tate Britain retrospective marks him as one of the most raw, physical and urgently affecting painters of the 20th century - 13th September 2008
 * Beauty and the beasts - Damien Hirst’s ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ exhibition features 223 of his latest pieces. Jackie Wullschlager finds his new formaldehyde zoo arresting as it is heart-breaking - 13th September 2008
 * The Midas touch that turns the art world lethally cold - Damien Hirst’s sale next week of 223 new pieces at Sotheby’s marks an insidious change in art’s relationship with money - 12th September 2008
 * Saints, sinners and sincerity - “Better a genius without faith than a believer without talent. We must take them as they are, barely Christian at all,” admitted Père Courturier - 6th September 2008
 * Gamble on well-being - You ask how a man can gamble away his last kopek...” – Dostoyevsky to his brother, 1863 - 16th September 2008
 * New wives’ tales - book reviews: A Dangerous Liaison, Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model Wives of Cezanne, Monet & Rodin - 15th August 2008
 * The late flower - book review: So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald - 2nd August 2008
 * The birth of tubism - “Grateful but unhappy”: writer Annette Kolb’s response to exile in America during the second world war summed up the feeling of most artistic refugees from Nazism - 25th July 2008
 * Freedom in three dimensions - Sculpture is the best comment a painter can make on his paintings,” said Picasso. “A drawing is a sculpture,” said Matisse. “White paint is my marble,” says Cy Twombly - 19th July 2008
 * The Magic Mountain - book review: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 19th July 2008
 * An angular vision - Hemingway said he looked like “an unsuccessful rapist”, Paul Nash thought him “strangely sub-human” and to WH Auden he was “that lonely old volcano”. Wyndham Lewis styled himself “The Enemy”, and certainly by the time he had anatomised London society in his satirical novel The Apes of God, he had barely friend or patron left - 5th July 2008
 * The Blue Flower - review: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - 30th June 2008
 * Rooms without a view - The drama of “The Scream” and the poetry of silence: Edvard Munch, born in 1863, and Vilhelm Hammershoi, born 1864, are the only Nordic painters in history who outgrew their native countries to become a presence in European art - 28th June 2008

