From Barbara Hepworth's organic abstractions in Kendal to JD Ferguson's post-war
bohemianism in Chichester, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the country
From Barbara Hepworth's organic abstractions in Kendal to JD Ferguson's post-war
bohemianism in Chichester, find out what's happening in art around the country
Not exact matches
Having graduated
in Fashion and Design, she is inspired by the past eras such as the French
Bohemianism of the early 1900s, Art Deco and 1920s Hollywood.
She frequented the Colony throughout the years until its final closing, and her recent book, The Colony Room Club 1948 — 2008, was described
in the Sunday Times as «a love letter to a lost world of British
bohemianism».
This is to their credit, but too often
in the show the connections drawn between works across time seems based on aesthetic contiguity or a shared sense of
bohemianism.
In the popular imagination, the neighborhood conjures the great era of 1920s cultural
bohemianism known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Drawn to the
bohemianism of Venice Beach, he redirected his technological and material investigations toward art; his meticulously polished forms were
in dialogue with those by «finish fetish» figures with whom he worked and exhibited, such as Larry Bell and John McCracken, though his concerns are more deeply rooted
in the physics and metaphysics of light.