I love art that makes me use my noggin. Berthe Morisot by Edouard Manet, 1873. The above, housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art, is of the painter Berthe Morisot by her brother-in-law, Edouard Manet. Berthe glances nervously towards the artist, her hair dishevelled, her lips parted as if caught in mid-sentance, her body hiding […]
I love art that makes me use my noggin. So I thought I’d share with you some of the paintings which have particularly intrigued me over the years. Rain by Vincent Van Gogh. Everybody knows about Van Gogh and his ear. It has become a joke, seen as the embodiment of an artistic temperament. But […]
I love art that makes me use my noggin. So I thought I’d share with you some of the paintings which have particularly intrigued me over the years. The first of my Art for the Brain series is Interior by Edgar Degas. Think you know what’s going on in this scene? Think again. Degas never […]
While I’m on the subject of Jane Austen I thought I’d mention the Rice Portrait, as I was reminded of it which watching a TV programme currently being shown on BBC1 called ‘Fake or Fortune’ which investigates cases of paintings with uncertain provenance, last night focussing on a possible Monet. For those of you who […]
