Edward Winters, Author at Trebuchet Magazine

James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties

20/09/2019 Edward Winters

This essay looks at the work of James Rosenquist in terms of the pop art movement. Broadening its scope, we look at this artist’s work against that of Ed Kienholz and Joseph Cornell. (read more)

Colour and Structure; Delightful abstract paintings in Paris

23/07/2019 Edward Winters

These paintings show quasi-geometrical structure of colour space. Together with a sensitivity to surface texture the abstract nature serves to p[oint upa new kind of content – or one that is hidden behind the concept of representation. (read more)

Seeing is Believing

15/07/2019 Edward Winters

Looking at paintings requires an ability to place works in the historical context of the medium. Only then can we see the human significance of the work. It is no good looking inward to brain patterns. That is not where human significance is to be found.
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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

29/05/2019 Edward Winters

Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. (read more)

Two Contemporary Women Concrete Artists

29/05/2019 Edward Winters

Two current exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe present work from two contemporary women artists; each, in her own way, a concrete artist. At RaumX, in north London, Katrina Blanin shows paintings and monoprints. (read more)

The Painting That Changed the History of Modern Art

26/02/2019 Edward Winters

Exhibition On Screen returns with Young Picasso, an extraordinary detective story that looks in detail at the elements that drove one small boy from southern Spain to such heights. (read more)

Hippolyte Hentgen and the Other World

04/02/2019 Edward Winters

Hippolyte Hentgen at Semiose, Paris (read more)

Colour, Love (or its absence) and Beauty are at the Heart of the City

17/01/2019 Edward Winters

Piazza Rotunda at Dawn Making Art as Chronicle ona Grimes is a restless city artist. She makes pictures; and in making them she strives to manipulate her medium in new ways. Hence there is always (read more)

Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads 1975-83

19/12/2018 Edward Winters

This essay argues that Rauschenberg, as an American artist, repositions collage as a flat formal arrangement. However, the formal arrangement, whilst remaining flat, accommodates depictive content as a secondary source of content. (read more)

Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir

05/12/2018 Edward Winters

Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching (read more)

Skill and Competence as a Requirement

11/11/2018 Edward Winters

Skill is deployed in many fields of human endeavour Football takes skill. I played football at the same time as did Rodney Marsh, Denis Law and Colin Bell. They were footballers; but I was not. (read more)

Degas: Passion For Perfection

09/11/2018 Edward Winters

Degas: Passion For Perfection uses the film medium to good effect, allowing the viewer to see the artist’s process in action. (read more)

‘Site Unseen’ Explores Making and Seeing

07/11/2018 Edward Winters

‘Darren Coffield’s ‘Orgreave’ ite Unseen’ is a group show inaugurating the new exhibition premises of Dellasposa in Lancaster Gate. A New Space for Contemporary Art It presently showcases the work of eight emerging contemporary (read more)

On The Image

14/10/2018 Edward Winters

Two Russian Tourists visiting Salisbury mages of every kind bombard us daily with information, persuasion and delight. The ‘image stream’ as John Stezaker, the collage artist has called it, is intoxicating in its delivery of (read more)

Science and Aesthetics

08/10/2018 Edward Winters

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Science, of course, is immensely important; perhaps even the patterns made by diffraction are important too; even if only as a bi-product of some scientific goings-on. Diffraction patterns, I have recently (read more)

Face-to-Face: Mary Kelly and Conceptualism

02/10/2018 Edward Winters

Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018) ary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition engages its audience with work that is at once intellectual and experiential. One enters the Pippy Holdsworth Gallery on Heddon (read more)

Depiction in the work of a Photo-Collagist

21/09/2018 Edward Winters

Conceptualist and Romantic Photo-Collagist Provides insight into Depiction: John Stezaker at the Approach (read more)

A Romance of Many Dimensions at sid motion

07/09/2018 Edward Winters

Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery (read more)

Paintings, Flat Sculpture, and Non-Medium Specific Art

30/08/2018 Edward Winters

Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro (read more)

Fake News, Clickbait, and the Phishing Net

26/08/2018 Edward Winters

resident Donald J Trump is an intriguing phenomenon. Any criticism of his presidency is dismissed as ‘Fake News’. Nigel Farage described him as a silver-back gorilla, as he prowled the set whilst Hilary Clinton spoke (read more)

Liberal Democracy and Freedom of Expression

17/08/2018 Edward Winters

linton Stanley Jr. has been denied access to his school upon the day of his enrolment because he wears his hair in dread locks. Is this a constraint upon his freedom? (See USA Today) Six (read more)

The Genius That is Boris Johnson

09/08/2018 Edward Winters

Sky News Poll oris Johnson’s latest contrarian contribution pulls out of focus some features of our modern democracy. And whilst his popularity is on the rise, within the Tory right, his credentials for being PM (read more)

Mind Over Matter: Putting Thought in its Place

06/08/2018 Edward Winters

Mind and Brain henever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good brain. There. In just two sentences we (read more)

Contemporary Artists’ Drawings at The Drawing Room

27/07/2018 Edward Winters

hy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv presenter, foreign correspondent, novelist, and sometime Call My Bluff panellist, A. (read more)

YZ: Street Artist Makes Image for New French Stamps

20/07/2018 Edward Winters

President Macron has selected an image for a new set of French stamps designed by YZ, a Franco-British street artist whose work celebrates strong women. (read more)

Of Art, Cultural Heritage, and Human Harm

19/07/2018 Edward Winters

Should we risk lives to save cultural heritage? n Tuesday 17th July 2018 Professor Derek Matravers gave his inaugural lecture, ‘Heritage in War: Protecting Cultural Property and Human Harm.’ The lecture served as an introduction (read more)

Painting and Research in the University

12/07/2018 Edward Winters

Jo Volley’s ‘Research Art’ at Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone (read more)

Evolution, Religion and Art

12/07/2018 Edward Winters

Little has changed in the stand-off between religion and science, we might be tempted to think. (read more)

The Unbearable Blindness of Theology and Science

05/07/2018 Edward Winters

urther to ‘Philosophy and the God of Bleak Things,’ the abstracts of two new research papers appear in Improbable Research. The papers address the question of whether or not it is possible for God to (read more)

Miyako Narita’s Photography at Flowers

03/07/2018 Edward Winters

Miyako Narita works in fine art photography, video and music. Her photography was on show in Cork Street last week. Flowers Gallery held the 24th edition of Artist of the Day, a West End exhibition (read more)