Art Tag Archive
Edinburgh’s healing beauty
(8 minute read)
Adam Brocklehurst recalls a moment of consolation in the galleries of Scotland’s capital.
Draw, doodle or dance: well or badly doesn’t really matter
(3 minute read)
Being happy to fail in our creative endeavours is an essential way to draw out the ‘artist child’ deep inside us all, Nicole Law discovered.
Dallying shepherds and muscular Christs: the Pre-Raphaelites as mental wellbeing
(6 minute read)
Adam Brocklehurst believes art can still offer us inspiration in our lockdown state.
Grimy glory: lessons in beauty from sewage-plants and run-down buildings
(7 minute read)
Self-confessed commoner Adam Brocklehurst explains how the aristocratic Lucinda Lambton has helped him see the world around him with new eyes.
Did I really see what I think I saw? Optical illusion in historical and contemporary art
(6 minute read)
Seeing is believing – if you can believe what you see. Carolyn Morrison discovers an art form which makes us “think anew about what we see and how we see it.”
The artist who caught a world in flux
(7 minute read)
L. S. Lowry’s charming matchstick men are loved and loathed in equal measure. But as Adam Brocklehurst points out, there was more to Lowry than quirky depictions of northern English grime. He has a message for a society coming to grips with a new normal …
Flying high: what birds, artists and time have in common
(8 minute read)
Three books take Prakarsh Singh into new dimensions of being.
When is a painting not just a painting?
(4 minute read)
Luca La Monica goes behind the masterpiece by Raphael, ‘School of Athens’, and discovers a recipe for a new way of living.
Log in, contemplate and transcend: an art lover’s guide to online viewing
(7 minute read)
Carolyn Morrison takes a look at what’s on offer on social media platforms while the world’s great museums and galleries remain closed.
Advent promise or smoke screens and mirrors?
Modern technology takes Sr Carolyn Morrison back to 15th century Italy to discover a Renaissance masterpiece. But does it work?
