camera obscura, Cezanne, French Salon, Golden Ratio, Gustave Courbet, Leonardo da Vinci, modern art, Mont Sainte-Victoire and Chateau Noir, Rilke, Salon d'Automne, The Bathers, Theory of Colours

Cézanne’s Sixteen Shades of Blue

13th March

In 1907, the poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to France and visited the Salon d’Automne, an annual art exhibition in Paris, where he saw the work of Cézanne, a year after the death of the artist. Rilke wrote a series of letters to his wife, the sculptor Clara Westhoff, reflecting on the paintings of...

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15th century, 20th century, Albert Dürer, Barbara Hepworth, blue, blue and white, blue gowns, classical representation, draughtsperson, drawings, Giovanni Bellini, hands, Henry Moore, Hepworth, hospital, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, movement, oil wash, orthopaedic surgery, parthenon frieze, piety, postwar Britain, sculptor, St Ives, surgery, surgical process, tendon, transplant, ultramarine

Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings

9th March

Faded, monumental figures loom out of a haze of muted blue and white tones. Classical in representation and with an air of piety, this drawing looks as though it could be a fresco by an Italian master, fading away on the wall of a stone chapel. In fact, Trio (Tendon Transplant) is from a series...

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