I’m delighted to announce that my recent online art history lecture, ‘The Art of Isolation: Edward Hopper’s Masterpieces’ raised £820 for Age UK! To all those who attended this special fundraiser talk on 1st May – thank you. Age UK conduct brilliant work at the best of times. Now the coronavirus has struck, calls to […]
The Rückenfigur is a kind of compositional device. It means ‘figure from the back’ in German. The Rückenfigur is commonly associated with the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich who used it in the 19th Century, most famously in his 1818 painting ‘Wanderer above a Sea of Fog’. Scores of artists have used this compositional […]
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