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“What do you think an artist is? He’s a political being, constantly alive to heartrending, fiery, or happy events, to which he responds in every way. No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy.”

Pablo Picasso

Visual Arts

The revolutionary realism of ‘Peasant Bruegel’

31 August 2019 / 324

Jenny Farrell discusses the life and work of ‘Peasant Bruegel’, unearthing the radically subversive protests and criticisms of political domination which are expressed so beautifully in his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

‘I am a human and I will be seen’: the anti-imperialist power of the photographic image

12 July 2019 / 340

Kate Potts introduces an extract from Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, the new book from Autograph ABP director Mark Sealy, published by Lawrence and Wishart This... Continue reading

Kate Potts

Visual Arts

A History of the Many, not the Few

9 July 2019 / 339

Michal Boncza reviews The Many Not the Few, by Sean Michael Wilson and Robert Brown AT THE launch of this timely graphic “history of Britain shaped by the... Continue reading

Michal Boncza

Visual Arts

Anti-war and anti-fascist German art: Otto Dix and George Grosz

1 July 2019 / 385

Jenny Farrell remembers Otto Dix and George Grosz, two German artists whose work was dedicated to the fight against fascism and war The painters Otto Dix and George... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Rembrandt the outsider

26 June 2019 / 337

Dennis Broe reviews the recent Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt the outsider? At first glance nothing could be further from the truth. Rembrandt is being... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Visual Arts

Walter Wolfgang

31 May 2019 / 335

Walter Jakob Wolfgang, 23 June 1923 to 28 May 2019, was a German-born British socialist and peace activist. He was Vice-President and Vice Chair of the Campaign for... Continue reading

Anon

Visual Arts

Against the day

19 May 2019 / 363

Narbi Price introduces his new exhibition of paintings, set in Ashington and inspired by the Pitmen Painters. Image above: Untitled Wall Painting (Kwik Fit), acrylic on board, 50x70cm... Continue reading

Narbi Price

Visual Arts

Boss

16 May 2019 / 316

(under capitalism) are eating destroying (eating up – not literally of course) other mammal species. Continue reading

Mike Quille

Visual Arts

Gustave Courbet: the working class becomes the subject of art

16 May 2019 / 447

On the 200th anniversay of Gustave Courbet’s birth, Jenny Farrell looks at his revolutionary choice of theme and form, called ‘socialist propaganda’ by his critics A constant... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa and the dialectics of nature

19 April 2019 / 320

Jenny Farrell presents the historical background and the art of Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago, on 2 May 1519. New trends in art do... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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“What do you think an artist is? He’s a political being, constantly alive to heartrending, fiery, or happy events, to which he responds in every way. No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy.”

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