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Intimate womanhood: the sculptures of women that Jules Dalou produced during his exile in England in the 1870s quietly reveal h political ideals
A group of four sculptures of female figures was exhibited at the Henry Moore Centre in Leeds this winter. With fluid contours and soft shadows,...
Apollo, 07/01/09 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
On board the phantom ride: Nancy Ireson reviews Lynda Nead's ambitious work on the links between art, film and theories of sight in fin-de-siecle culture
The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography and Film around 1900 The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography and Film around 1900 LYNDA NEAD...
Apollo, 10/01/08 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
Old friends in fresh company: the new galleries for European painting at the Metropolitan: the opening of the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries has allowed the Metropolitan Museum to display virtually its entire holdings of 19th- and early-20th-century European
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Last December, the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York...
Apollo, 03/01/08 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
Forgotten fauve: a travelling exhibition has reestablished the reputation of that key but oddly obscure Fauve painter Emile-Othon Friesz
To even the most conscientious gallery-goer, the name Emile-Othon Friesz is relatively unfamiliar. His early works have featured in numerous Fauve...
Apollo, 11/01/07 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
Artist alone: the paintings of Maurice Denis: this major exhibition, originally staged at the Musee d'Orsay and now in Montreal, provides a rich and occasionally revelatory overview of an underrated, idiosyncratic artist. But its monographic format is str
Maurice Denis cuts an idiosyncratic figure in the history of modern art. His life spanned the years of France's Third Republic, but he was unlike...
Apollo, 05/01/07 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
Art in an age of anxiety: Tate Modern's exploration of Kandinsky's early work reveals that despite his move to abstraction, it reflects the social and political climate in which it was made
In 1911, when Kandinsky wrote an essay 'On the Question of Form' for the Blaue Reiter Almanac, he outlined his belief that each artist should find...
Apollo, 09/01/06 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
The shapes of London: the Lancashire-born landscape painter John Virtue is the sixth associate artist at the National Gallery, London, Nancy Ireson talked to him about the exhibitions of paintings and drawings made during his two years there
Until 5 June, visitors who enter the National Gallery through the Getty entrance and climb the stairs to the main galleries will be met with a...
Apollo, 05/01/05 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication -
Le douanier as medium? Henri Rousseau and spiritualism: towards the end of his life, Henri Rousseau was often discussed with reference to the supernatural. As Nancy Ireson explains, spiritualism—like 'the primitive'—was one of the keys with whic
In March 1910, the critic Arsene Alexandre interviewed Henri Rousseau in his Montrouge studio, where the artist was working on one of his jungle...
Apollo, 06/01/04 by Nancy Ireson · More from publication
