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See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.support@ft.comThu, 24 Jul 2008 18:57 BSTFri, 25 Jul 2008 04:38:40 BSTNewspapers15http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/arts/visual(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32d397a4-5999-11dd-90f8-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32d397a4-5999-11dd-90f8-000077b07658.htmlPastoral's commentary on the state of the world is achieved by looking away from it, at a past that is partly imagined, and partly extrapolated from whatever has survived into the present, writes Robin Blake Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:57 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4fc26cfe-5805-11dd-b02f-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4fc26cfe-5805-11dd-b02f-000077b07658.htmlWith visitor numbers to Naples plunging in the wake of negative media reports, a group of artists has decided to fight back with an exhibition to highlight the problem, writes Jane Ure-Smith Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:36 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3a73754-5455-11dd-aa78-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3a73754-5455-11dd-aa78-000077b07658.htmlThe sculptures made by many great 20th-century painters illuminate modernism's metamorphoses of forms and matter, writes Jackie Wullschlager Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:32 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af2d296c-5455-11dd-aa78-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af2d296c-5455-11dd-aa78-000077b07658.htmlNow that handwriting has been supplanted by emails, the whole notion of carving letters in stone seems absurdly old-fashioned, says Richard Cork Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:31 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93eb247e-51bc-11dd-a97c-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/93eb247e-51bc-11dd-a97c-000077b07658.htmlIn telling the story of photography's first century through the work of 13 figures, this show cleverly lets us juxtapose different treatments of the same motifs, exposing the extent to which sensibility, culture and context filter the quirks of individual vision, writes Ariella Budick Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:22 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe71ec28-4eed-11dd-ba7c-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe71ec28-4eed-11dd-ba7c-000077b07658.htmlBen Nicholson, who became the standard-bearer of pure modernism in British painting, was known for taking inspiration from other artists, says Robert Blake Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:10 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08e46014-4eee-11dd-ba7c-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08e46014-4eee-11dd-ba7c-000077b07658.htmlSarah Lucas's new sculpture of a shire horse and cart at Waddesdon surprises those familiar with the earlier work of the sculptor ranked among the most prominent Young British Artists of the 1990s, says Richard Cork Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:09 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/648f9698-4d06-11dd-b527-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/648f9698-4d06-11dd-b527-000077b07658.htmlWhile Europe reeled from social upheaval after the first world war, avant-garde artists from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland revelled in radical styles and bold political statements, writes Claire Holland Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:19 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0b5f2f88-4965-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0b5f2f88-4965-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlWyndham Lewis's ruthless, insightful portraits of some of modernism's heroes reflect his obsession with identity and unmasking his subject's psyche, says Jackie Wullschlager Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:37 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fccb0e4c-4964-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fccb0e4c-4964-11dd-9a5f-000077b07658.htmlAt 73, Jan Pienkowski shows no signs of slowing down. Lydia Fulton finds out what inspires the revolutionary illustrator of children's tales and what keeps him goingSat, 5 Jul 2008 01:33 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27a06792-484e-11dd-a851-000077b07658.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27a06792-484e-11dd-a851-000077b07658.htmlFrom photography to explorations of women's rights, a contemporary art prize has revealed a wealth of talent in a country where such means of expression were largely forbidden until recently, writes Constance Wyndham Wed, 2 Jul 2008 19:20 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc722688-43e9-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc722688-43e9-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlVilhelm Hammershoi used realism to depict familiar forms but subverted them with a disruptive interiority, says Jackie Wullschlager Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:29 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d98cc694-43e9-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d98cc694-43e9-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlGary Hume's 'door paintings', household paint on aluminium sheets, are as impossible to resist as roses and blossoms, or cheerleaders, or Kate Moss, writes Emily Stokes Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:28 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb763ccc-439c-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb763ccc-439c-11dd-842e-0000779fd2ac.htmlThe Wallace's new show is principally a comparative study of Boucher and Chardin as painters of domestic scenes. Yet for so small and focused an exhibition, there is a lot going on, writes William Packer Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:43 BSThttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3addb13c-3e64-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.htmlhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3addb13c-3e64-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.htmlTwo former bankers have made it their mission to produce a national catalogue that will enable the British public to unearth 200,000 hidden works of art hung in disparate locations across the countrySat, 21 Jun 2008 02:37 BST