THE ART GENE
The Darkest Black. Goya's Black Paintings are like scraping at the underbelly of a genius's imagination. Universally famous, and rightly...
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May 11
THE ART GENE
THE ART GENE Well, it is Caravaggio or not? The debate continues.... Spain’s Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio, 'Ecco...
May 9
THE ART GENE
Faking it. FORGERY - PART ONE It's not new, Michelangelo was adept at fakery when he sculpted a putti and then aged it (apparently with...
May 6
THE ART POST
The Eccentrics Of course everyone expects artists to be eccentric, it comes with the instruction manual, but there are some...
May 1
THE ART GENE
SEEING RED Apparently the reason for some paintings reaching higher prices is ‘often alarmingly simplistic’ i.e. the picture has red in...
Apr 27
SPRING - Giuseppe Arcimboldo style
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (5 April 1526 – 11 July 1593) was a successful court painter charged with recording the likenesses of three Holy...
Apr 23
THE ART GENE
The Death Toll Many artists met their deaths with the same violent intensity they brought to their lives, and a surprising number died in...
Apr 15
The Art Gene
First Careers of the Great Artists For some art is a vocation, for others perhaps not so much. It's fascinating to know what jobs or...
Apr 11
Why do I write art thrillers?
Why write thrillers set in the art world? The first reaction to that question – one that people ask me constantly – is why not? In the...
Apr 7
The Art Gene: the greats and their lovers
Love - when is it ever simple? Leonardo da Vince, always a connoisseur of beauty, was infatuated by Salai, his lover and assistant....
Apr 2
Historical put downs
Put downs are irresistible, especially those of the greats. It's like watching the gods of Olympus scrapping like toddlers over pieces of...
Mar 29
The Art Gene
We've all got one, an inbuilt fascination with the arts; painting/music/literature. It's inside us, and just needs a little teasing to be...
Mar 8
My first blog!
Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post! Here you will find an array of updates from myself on my work, my art takes and...
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