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5 June 2020 Issue 116
Art News Art News Keeping you in the pictureKeeping you in the picture
Craft & Design Craft & Design Hand-made for you & your homeHand-made for you & your home
Art Books Art Books Read all about it!Read all about it!
Art & Travel Art & Travel Bohemian Rhapsody: PragueBohemian Rhapsody: Prague
Photo-SpreadPhoto-SpreadDog show: Furry friends Dog show: Furry friends
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Art & Health Art & Health Artists are “crazier” than us – Artists are “crazier” than us –
but “saner” toobut “saner” too
Marketplace Marketplace Original artwork & posters for saleOriginal artwork & posters for sale
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Also including: Amanda Philips, Sophie Mackay Knight, Linda Park, Moy MacKay, Jackie Gardiner,Fiona Miller and jewellers Ellie McAllister & Sheana M. Stephen
Future exhibitions: Aug/SeptFirst Solo Show: Arturs Akopjans
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Inspired by the colours,shapes and textures found in nature, Angus-based Gerrie Somerville
is equally accomplished working in acrylics, watercolours and mixed media. Look out for her work at this year’s North East Open Studios, scheduled for September 12-20, circumstances permitting. Pictured: Evening www.gerriesomerville.com
ON THE COVERFrancis Boag, Homage to Henri, from an online exhibition at the Fraser Gallery in St Andrews.
You may not be able to visit their Edinburgh store at Ocean Terminal
(pictured) or their Glasgow outlet in the Buchanan Galleries, but you can still buy work by over 300 independent Scottish artists and makers in the Scottish Design Exchange web store. Every penny you spend goes directly to the creators. www.scottishdesignexchange.com
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The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the cancellation or
postponement of all productions until the end of the year, but has partnered with the BBC and Marquee TV to make a number of productions available to watch online, including Richard II (with David Tennant), Macbeth (with Christopher Eccleston), King Lear (with Antony Sher) and Hamlet (with Paapa Essiedu, pictured). www.rsc.org.uk
The pre-eminent Scottish glass artist Alison Kinnaird MBE has created Lockdown
2020, portraying some of the emotions common to many people throughout the last few months. Alison is internationally recognised for her work, which ranges from small, intimate pieces to architectural-scale installations
and can be seen in many public and private collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Look out for her annual August open studio exhibition in Temple, Midlothian, circumstances permitting. Visitors may also arrange an appointment. www.alisonkinnaird.com
While its gallery at Waterston House in
Aberlady remains closed until further notice, the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC) has launched an online store featuring a collection of artworks by some of the UK’s leading wildlife artists. The focus of the range, which will change regularly, is works on paper, such as fine art
prints, watercolours, drawings, screenprints and linocuts, sold unframed and delivered within the UK. The launch collection has a distinct summer flavour showcasing a wide range of styles and approaches. The SOC is a charity promoting the study of birds in Scotland. It hosts a programme of activities, discussions and outings for its members and the general public. On-site exhibitions at Waterston House will resume when circumstances allow. Pictured: Lucy Newton, Pair of Puffins www.the-soc.org.uk/online-shop
Following the enforced cancellation of performances, the National Theatre of
Scotland has launched Scenes for Survival, a new series of
digital short works with contributions from Brian Cox, Jenni Fagan, Jonathan Watson, Ian Rankin and
others. Free to view, each piece has been created by a quarantine creative team made up of performers, writer and director, connecting remotely, and filmed by the performers from their personal spaces. Pictured: Brian Cox plays Ian Rankin’s irascible detective inspector in John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues. An ageing Rebus struggles with self-isolation, interrupted only by infrequent visits by his long-standing colleague Siobhan. www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/scenesforsurvival
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New work arriving all the time to browse online
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Art In Hungary 1956-1980, var. eds., Thames & Hudson This fully illustrated insight into Hungarian art of the period shows how avant-garde artists fought against both a Communist system which condemned their art as a product of capitalist imperialism and a conservative
public which rejected it as alien to national culture. While most studies of modern and contemporary art in Soviet-era Eastern Europe focus on its relationship to western art, this one shows how artists found themselves isolated, particularly after the failed 1956 revolution.
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, ed. Ortrud Westheider & Michael Phillip, pub. Prestel Taking a new approach to this much covered subject, six leading scholars explore a wide range of themes, from the use of repetition and variation to the ecological
climate in which the artists worked, through 90 seminal works by some of the movement’s leading exponents, including Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Renoir. They also show how these artists documented the effects of industrialisation on the landscape and and how they used the landscape to explore to explore colour theory.
Treason of the Scholars, by Peter Goodfellow, pub. Panter & Hall Painter and gallery owner Peter Goodfellow blames some of the world’s richest contemporary artists for destroying the quality of
Read all about it!the craft in Britain. He targets YBA leaders Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jay Joplin and Larry Gagosian and accuses their king-makers Charles Saatchi and Sir Nicholas Serota of creating a false economy in order to drive sales, resulting in the public’s alienation from contemporary art and artistic craft being compromised by commercialism, cynicism and politics.
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists, by Caroline Maclean, pub. Bloomsbury Publishing In the peaceful, verdant London suburb of 1930s Hampstead, sculptor Barbara Hepworth and abstract painter Ben
Nicholson launched an era-defining movement which drew into their orbit an inner circle of artists such as sculptor Henry Moore, surrealist Paul Nash, colour field pioneer Piet Mondrian and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Together they formed Unit One, which became a cornerstone of Modernism and brought them international renown.
Vincent van Gogh: A Portrait of his Life and Work, by Cornelia Homburg, pub. Carlton Books This gloriously illustrated overview follows the path which led Van Gogh from failed early attempts at careers as an art dealer
and pastor, through his beginnings as an artist with earthy portrayals of Dutch peasant life to the final blaze of colours in Provence, tragic death and analysis of his mental condition.
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A new book of superb sketches and essays by Ian Stuart Campbell FSAI FRIAS.
Twenty-two European cities from ‘Athens to Andalusia’ via Venice, Vienna, Sicily, and Seville.
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1 Aubin Stewart pairs precious and non-precious materials to create contemporary jewellery with a focus on pearls and perspex elements. Often inspired by natural forms, her designs are reduced to the simplest of shapes and patterns.
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2 Frazer Feid of Fife-based FAR Cabinet Makers specialises in custom-made pieces in locally sourced woods, from smaller items such as mirror frames and whisky cabinets to larger pieces such as dining tables and chairs. Pictured: Boat coffee table www.farcabinetmakers.co.uk
3 Rachel Elliott crafts her work using a variety of techniques, from screenprinting in kiln-fired enamels and traditional lost-wax casting to more modern methods such as water-jet cutting.
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4 Inspired by the Atlantic coastline of the Outer Hebrides, Louise Cook of Shoreline Stoneware imbues her clay with natural, beach-weathered sea fragments for texture and captures the changing light and seasons in her use of glaze and recycled glass. www.shoreline-stoneware.co.uk
5 By translating emotional and physical perceptions of Scottish landscapes and soundscapes into printed textiles and embroidery, Orla Stevens celebrates the interconnecteded of mind, body and environment. www.orlastevens.com
6 Both Edinburgh College of Art graduates, mother and daughter Leila and Jo Thomson of the Hoxta Tapestry Gallery produce hand-crafted rugs exclusively in Shetland wool, using a technique which enables sophisticated colour gradation reflecting the landscape and rhythm of life of their Orkney home. Pictured: Spring Tides
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PRAGUE HAS A LONG ARTISTIC LEGACY
It is easy to accept the commonly held view that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe. Damage by
WWII bombing (by the Allies, some of it accidental due to faulty navigation equipment) was minimal compared to the ruinous state of many other cities, so a centuries-long line of creating architectural gems through the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods was unbroken. As a result, this “museum of architecture” is the largest urban historical centre on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Hand in hand with its
Bohemian Rhapsody
architectural legacy is Prague’s history of artistic excellence. Czech-born Alphonse Mucha became a leading light of the Art Nouveau, the painter and graphic artist Frantisek Kupka was an early pioneer of abstract art, Cubism was embraced in its early days in Prague and today the sculptor David Cerny has left his mark all over the city with his witty and controversial works. In an opulent building from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire which is also home
to the Czech Philharmonic, the Galerie Rudolfinum has adopted an admission-free policy thanks to sponsors, which has resulted in a considerable increase of visitors. With no permanent collection of its own, it hosts a series of temporary exhibitions in its cavernous halls, which has showcased the best national
Deceiving the eye in the Illusion Art Museum
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artist M.C. Escher and Dali’s three-dimensional installation Face of Mae West, the Illusion Art Museum is one gallery where you are positively encouraged to take photos as you interact with over 50 exhibits. Stand on the marked spots and you can photograph your companion seemingly being crushed by a giant horse crashing through the wall, kneeling to be knighted by a sword-carrying queen, standing on the precipice of a large hole in the floor looking down into the floors below or sprouting giant angel’s wings. Is it art? Maybe not, but it’s definitely huge fun. www.iamprague.eu The Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the pre-eminent exponents of Parisian Art Nouveau and most famous for revolutionising poster design, particularly those commissioned by the French actress Sarah Bernhardt to promote her appearances. Mucha’s signature style – beautiful women, flowing hair, extravagant flowers and fanciful script – made him rich and famous and led to a wide range of merchandise. In particular, his inexpensive, mass-produced decorative panels enabled him to fulfil what he saw as his duty to promote art for
ordinary people to enhance the quality of life. The Mucha Museum, the only one in the world dedicated to his work, has a particular focus on his Paris period. There
is also an improvised interior of his Paris studio featuring the original furniture and photographs Mucha took of elegant models in some of the now immortalised poses. While best known for his Art Nouveau posters, Mucha is greatly underrated for his contributions to symbolism and figurative art, and a large format oil painting Star, also known as Woman in the Wilderness (1923), demonstrates his great skill in this genre.
The biggest omission from the collection is also
Mucha’s finest work: the monumental Slav Epic. Taking 18 years to complete, the series of 20 oil paintings is a monument to the struggles and achievements of the Slav people. It is currently in storage while a solution is found for its permanent display. www.mucha.cz In its lovely location in former mill buildings on the bank of the River Vltava, Museum Kampa focuses on mainly 20th century Central European, particularly Czech, art with occasional >>>
talent along with international stars such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Louise Bourgeois, Georg Baselitz, Neo Rauch and Nan Goldin. www.galerierudolfinum.cz Across the street is the Museum of Decorative Arts in another building which is itself a work of art with its lavish murals, elaborate stained glass windows, gilded ceilings and ornate plasterwork. As elsewhere in the world, the museum was founded in 1875 to preserve art and crafts at the advent of the era of mass-production. In recognition of its founders, the Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the decor depicts handicrafts such as basketry, goldsmithing, locksmithing, lace-making and weaving. The collection includes ceramics, textiles, furniture, clocks, precious metals and jewellery. Its extensive glass collection, one of the largest in the world, is particularly prized. www.upm.cz For centuries artists have played with perspective and optical illusion, and both form the basis of Prague’s most playful art gallery. Taking its inspiration from the likes of trompe l’oeil, the perspective-bending graphic
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The French actress Sarah Bernhard as Gismonda in a poster by Alphonse Mucha
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Part of the National Galleries, the Trade Fair Palace shows Czech and international modern and contemporary art
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overlaps with the 19th and 21st centuries. One of the most comprehensive collections of its kind in the world, it was assembled by the Czech art patron Meda Mladek, who with her husband (a former director of
the International Monetary Fund) spent many years in exile before returning to her homeland after the Velvet Revolution, whereupon she donated the collection to the city of Prague. Along with temporary exhibitions, there are two on permanent display: seven rooms of works by the Czech painter and graphic artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) and sculptures, drawings and designs by the Czech sculptor Otto Gutfreund (1889-1927), mainly from his Cubist period. There are large contemporary sculptures on the site such as David Cerny’s Babies, a set of eight giant bronze infants with bar code stamps for faces apparently crawling around outside. www.museumkampa.cz
Located in the House of the Black Madonna (she looks out from her gilded cage on a corner of Prague’s first Cubist building, built originally as a department store), the Museum of Czech Cubism has a permanent
exhibition of works from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts, including furniture, ceramic, glass, metals, posters, graphic art and paintings. Czech Cubism made Prague one of Europe’s avant-garde centres in the years preceding WWI, as artists who had become exposed to contemporary art in their studies abroad, particularly in Paris, returned home eager to usher in newly discovered trends pioneered by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. On the ground floor Gallery Kubista sells all manner of Cubist-inspired products. www.czkubismus.cz The National Galleries exhibit works in three main buildings. On Old Town Square the Kinsky Palace sports one of
Prague’s finest Rococo facades. Recent exhibitions have featured Rembrandt and French Impressionism. One of its earlier uses was as the secondary school that Franz Kafka attended and where his father ran a shop. A short walk along the hill from Prague Castle, the sumptuous Schwarzenberg Palace has a permanent exhibition of Old Masters, including Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, El Greco, Goya, Hans Holbein and Rubens. The jewel of Czech functionalist architecture and once the largest building of its kind in the world, the Trade Fair Palace (the name indicates its original use when first opened in the 1920s) was rebuilt after almost
being completely destroyed by a fire in 1974. Today it shows Czech and international modern and contemporary art, including works by Picasso, Georges Braque, Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh and Gustav Klimt. www.ngprague.cz Rather than a castle in any traditional sense, Prague Castle is really a small town in its own right. According to the Guinness Book of World Records the >>>
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world’s largest castle complex, this cluster of palaces and ecclesiastical buildings in various architectural styles dating from the 10th century onwards is also the burial place of Czech saints and monarchs. The centrepiece of the complex is the magnificent St Vitus Cathedral, its towering spires visible from all over Prague. Art Nouveau insinuated its
influence into the hallowed walls in the form of three stained glass windows designed by Alphonse Mucha. Art is also represented in the former Imperial Stables, which now host a series of exhibitions under its vaulted ceiling. Prague Castle is also home to the oldest and largest privately owned art collection in the Czech Republic. Now a museum, the Lobkowicz Palace is home to a collection which reflects seven centuries’ of the cultural, social, political and economic life of central Europe with a display of ceramics, armour, hunting equipment, musical instruments, engravings and some 1,500 paintings by artists such as
Rubens, Cranach, Velazquez and Veronese. One of the highlights is Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s Haymaking (1656), one of six panels by the artist, each depicting two months (here, June and July) and of which only five still exist – one here, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and three in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. In the Beethoven Room you can see the first printed edition
of the composer’s Symphony No. 3, the ‘Eroica’, dedicated to the 7th Prince Lobkowicz, a major patron of Beethoven. There are also two astonishingly detailed views of the Thames and the
city of London by Canaletto, considered to be the most accurate visual record of the city in the mid-1700s, while the Croll Room, a recreation of a room in another Lobkowicz palace, is named after the artist Carl Robert Croll (1800-63), who depicted almost every piece of furniture and object in the room in his watercolours and oils, almost fifty of which decorate the space. www.lobkowiwicz.cz
The roof terrace of the Vienna House Diplomat Prague hotel with the spires of St Vitus Cathedral on the skyline
WHERE TO STAY The modern, four-star Vienna House Diplomat Prague is a 15-minute tram ride from the city centre. There is a spa and wellness centre and an excellent restaurant. With 400 rooms it is one of the largest hotels in Prague and belongs to a chain which also has properties in Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Russia and Romania. www.viennahouse.com/en/diplomat-prague
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Haymaking, 1656 (Lobkowicz Palace Museum)
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In visiting art galleries around Europe, Artmag has been struck by how often dogs, specifically hounds, are depicted in older pictures and other media. Their frequent appearance should be no surprise. As hunters, these furry friends were essential in putting food on the table, not to mention providing a bit of warmth on cold nights. So here’s our little tribute to everybody’s best friend.
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ANN ARMSTRONGANN ARMSTRONGScottish Landscape ArtistScottish Landscape Artist
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KATE HENDERSONKATE HENDERSONPainting • Glass • TeachingPainting • Glass • Teachingwww.katehenderson.co.ukwww.katehenderson.co.uk
GERRIE SOMERVILLEGERRIE SOMERVILLEMixed Media ArtistMixed Media Artist
www.gerriesomerville.comwww.gerriesomerville.com
IAN MCKINNELLIAN MCKINNELLAbstract PhotographyAbstract Photography
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LIZ MYHILLLIZ MYHILLPainter & PrintmakerPainter & Printmakerwww.lizmyhill.comwww.lizmyhill.com
SENJA BRENDONSENJA BRENDONSaltwater Studio, ArranSaltwater Studio, Arran
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In 1963, the pioneering creativity scholar Frank Barron wrote that the ‘creative genius…is
both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner than the average person’. Almost 60 years later, researchers at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in the USA have found ways to measure and quantify Barron’s claims, as reported in the art market website Artnet. In a study published in the
journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, they found that artists possess both more psychological vulnerabilities and more psychological strengths than people who work in non-creative fields. Researchers surveyed over 300 teachers at top US art schools and a similarly sized sample of workers who had no training in the arts. Both groups were asked about their “crazy” sides (or their “psychological vulnerabilities,” in psychology parlance), which were defined as
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the degrees of stress, anxiety and depression they experience in their everyday lives. Subjects were also asked about their “saner” sides (or “psychological resources”), which include self-acceptance, personal growth, positive relationships, autonomy, hope and ego resilience. The results showed that the artists ranked moderately higher on both the stress and anxiety measures as well as those indicating hope, ego resilience and psychological well-being. In other words, while artists are >>>
Artists are “crazier” than the rest of us –– but “saner” too
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more anxious than people in other professions, they are also better at coping with challenges. In fact, they rated higher in all the positive categories except “environmental mastery,” which indicates how much control people feel over their life circumstances. The study’s co-author Zorana Ivcevic Pringle wrote: ‘Psychological vulnerabilities give people a perspective of understanding suffering or knowledge of a broader range of human experience’. However, for these experiences to also enhance creativity, people needed to have strengths ‘that enable them to respond to the challenges of their circumstances’. So, a little bit of adversity can go a long way – as long as it doesn’t break you in the process.
ART IN THE WORKPLACE CAN BOOST BOTH MENTAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITYA survey by the art consultancy Artiq found that half of all office users believed that artwork makes them more effective, over 60 per cent believed that art inspires them to think and work more creatively and over 80 per cent believed artwork to be an important addition to the workplace. The survey also found that a regular change in visual surroundings could further stimulate creativity, thought processes and general well-being. The feel good factor didn’t stop there. By procuring art to improve the work environment, businesses were also saying to their employees, “We value you enough to invest in your surroundings”. In return, staff were instilled with a sense of pride in their company and felt greater loyalty towards it. www.artiq.co
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June Carey RSW RGI PAI is a multiple award-winning artist
whose work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Her work is in many public and private collections, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, Oxford University, BBC Television, Highland Region and Dundee District Council.
‘Forbiden Love’, gouache & acrylic
Evocative landscapes by Simon Rivett from his recent
Borderlands series of the Scottish Borders in which he captures the graphic rhythms of the fields and walls, using colour and shape to create works which are full of harmony, playfulness and joy.
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Intimate figurative paintings by Kevin Low from his
Women and Men series. For several years a photographer of stage performances, Kevin’s understanding of lighting, drama and the precisely chosen moment have resulted in a resonant collection of images.
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