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Caspar David Friedrich urged his fellow artists to ‘Recognise yourself and the time in which you live.’ On the 250th anniversary of his birth, what does the leading painter of German Romanticism have to say to us today?
The awesome art of Caspar David Friedrich | Apollo Magazine
The leading exponent of German Romanticism was keenly concerned with the destructive effects of humans on a rapidly industrialising world
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August 10, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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‘They occupy space as only great sculpture can, as if touching down from some other world’ – Glenn Adamson on the wonderfully intricate and elegant baskets of the seventh-generation maker Jeremy Frey
Jeremy Frey weaves new worlds | Apollo Magazine
The seventh-generation basketry artist is bringing new dynamism to an ancient craft, writes Glenn Adamson
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August 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In Olivia Laing’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too, writes Emily Cox. www.apollo-magazine.com/olivia-laing...
Olivia Laing’s guide to radical growth | Apollo Magazine
Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In Laing’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too, writes Emily Cox
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July 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and Angelica Kauffman’s paintings encapsulated the ideas of the age, writes Clare Bucknell www.apollo-magazine.com/angelica-kau...
The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman | Apollo Magazine
In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age
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March 4, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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What would Pericles want? After a week in which a British prime minister has realised, seemingly for the first time, that Greece would quite like the Parthenon marbles back, perhaps it’s time to take a longer view? www.apollo-magazine.com/parthenon-ma...
December 3, 2023 at 1:17 PM