Julian Barnes, one of my favourite writers, poses the question – “is art a depiction of reality, a concentration of it, a superior substitute for it, or just a beguiling irrelevance?” (excerpt from the novel, […]
Since the 1970’s, painting has been declared dead, defunct and irrelevant. This blog explores the reasons for antipathy to art with a focus on distrust of and distaste for painting and in particular, for painterly […]