Edward Winters, Author at Trebuchet

Concrete Art 2: Number As Material

12/05/2021

Euclid defines line as ‘breadthless length’. The Skills You Need educational website, under the heading of ‘geometry’, defines ‘point’, ‘line’, ‘plane’, and ‘solid’...

Concrete Art 1: Colour As Material

05/05/2021

The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, as provided by John Locke, tells us that secondary qualities are accessible only to one mode of perception...

Surrealism, Over, Yet Everywhere: Mica McDonald and Sofia Mitsola

13/07/2020

“And now consider how passing a child on a swingCalling higher, higherCan bring back all that tender trauma of childhoodRealising that we don’t leave the past behindBut that it leaves...

Architecture and Aesthetic Errors

29/05/2020

Modernist architecture, seen as art, falls into aesthetic error when it fails to address the nature of the lives encompassed by it....

Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

14/05/2020

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

After the hunt, 1870, by David Neal (1838-1915)

If the Lion Could Speak (…)

11/05/2020

This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...

Jane Bustin’s V – Tea Bowls (and Other Things) in Paris

31/10/2019

The more you think about things the stranger they get; and more beautiful....

James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties

20/09/2019

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....

Colour and Structure; Delightful abstract paintings in Paris

23/07/2019

These paintings show quasi-geometrical structure of colour space. Together with a sensitivity to surface texture the abstract nature serves to point upa new kind of content - or one that is hidden...

Seeing is Believing

15/07/2019

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...

The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

29/05/2019

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. ...

Two Contemporary Women Concrete Artists

29/05/2019

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...

The Painting That Changed the History of Modern Art

26/02/2019

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. ...

Hippolyte Hentgen and the Other World

04/02/2019

Hippolyte Hentgen at Semiose, Paris...

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

17/01/2019

Piazza Rotunda at Dawn Making Art as Chronicle dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;O/dropcapona Grimes is a restless city artist. She makes pictures; and in making them she strives to...

Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads 1975-83

19/12/2018

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...

Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir

05/12/2018

Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching...

Skill and Competence as a Requirement

11/11/2018

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. Why...

Degas: Passion For Perfection

09/11/2018

Degas: Passion For Perfection uses the film medium to good effect, allowing the viewer to see the artist's process in action. ...

‘Site Unseen’ Explores Making and Seeing

07/11/2018

‘Darren Coffield’s ‘Orgreave’ dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;‘S/dropcapite Unseen’ is a group show inaugurating the new exhibition premises of...

On The Image

14/10/2018

Two Russian Tourists visiting Salisbury dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmages of every kind bombard us daily with information, persuasion and delight. The ‘image stream’...

Science and Aesthetics

08/10/2018

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....

Face-to-Face: Mary Kelly and Conceptualism

02/10/2018

Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition...

Depiction in the work of a Photo-Collagist

21/09/2018

Conceptualist and Romantic Photo-Collagist Provides insight into Depiction: John Stezaker at the Approach...

A Romance of Many Dimensions at sid motion

07/09/2018

Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery...

Paintings, Flat Sculpture, and Non-Medium Specific Art

30/08/2018

Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro...

Fake News, Clickbait, and the Phishing Net

26/08/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;P/dropcapresident Donald J Trump is an intriguing phenomenon. Any criticism of his presidency is dismissed as ‘Fake News’. Nigel Farage...

Liberal Democracy and Freedom of Expression

17/08/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;C/dropcaplinton 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...

The Genius That is Boris Johnson

09/08/2018

Sky News Poll dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;B/dropcaporis Johnson’s latest contrarian contribution pulls out of focus some features of our modern democracy. And whilst his...

Mind Over Matter: Putting Thought in its Place

06/08/2018

Mind and Brain dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphenever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good...