Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920, aka ‘Modi’) is an outstanding example of the ‘tormented modern artist-genius’ who suffered for his art and died prematurely. He was a School of Paris painter and sculptor of Italian-Jewish origin, who became popular after his death because of his distinctive but mannered and melancholy portraits, erotic female nudes with sinuous outlines…
Boshier is a senior British artist who has lived and worked in the United States for many years and drawn his subject-matter from American culture since the 1960s. A survey of his career is followed by an appreciation of recent anti-war drawings and exhibitions What I admire about Derek Boshier (b. 1937 Portsmouth) as a…
Rolf Harris’s art encompasses paintings, murals, cartoons, book illustrations, prints, woodcarving and stone polishing. While there are many pop and film stars who paint as a pastime, what is special about Harris is the way he has combined both art and performance With some justice, Rolf Harris’s biographer Michael Heatley has called him ‘the most…
