Paintings and Sculpture

Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection at London’s Royal Academy

By James Brewer

His nickname was the Demon of Painting. Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), Japan’s most daring, exciting, and feted painter of the late 19th century, turned out hanging scrolls, decorative screens and album leaves of exquisite detail on an industrial scale, just as the modern industrial revolution was beginning to shake the structures of his country’s society. After centuries of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/27/kyosai-the-israel-goldman-collection-at-londons-royal-academy/

By James Brewer

The past two years have been a test of courage for everyone – and artists are among those who have come with flying colours through the pressures of living during the pandemic.

An exhibition which opened on the second anniversary of the first UK lockdown celebrates the way eight artists closely connected to the London scene coped with the mental and physical challenges that were sprung upon them. Their concepts, many in coded...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/15/things-will-continue-to-change-london-artists-new-work-on-show-in-aftermath-of-the-pandemic/

Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan. Royal Academy highlights the model who was so much more than a muse

By James Brewer

All who knew her were enthralled by her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, with enchanting pale blue eyes and tumbling copper-gold hair. Immortalised as a model by the American artist James McNeill Whistler who spent many years in London, Joanna Hiffernan was much more than a muse. The woman whom Whistler enlisted for his renowned The White...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/07/whistlers-woman-in-white-joanna-hiffernan-royal-academy-highlights-the-model-who-was-so-much-more-than-a-muse/