The literal translation from German into English of Gesamtkunstwerk is complete artwork. It was first used by Richard Wagner to describe a new type of art in the 19th century, which brought together many different types of art – including painting, literature and music, a new all-inclusive, modern art form. The newest exhibition at the […]
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The Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery is currently hosting the first major retrospective of New Yorker George Condo. Showcasing work spanning three decades, beginning in 1982, the appropriately titled ‘Mental States’ juxtaposes raw emotion with the fantastical and grotesque. The show is set out thematically, with three foci: portraiture, abstract figuration and mania and melancholy. Condo, the […]
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A panorama is a view over a wide area or of changing events. This is exactly what the curators of ‘Panorama – Gerhard Richter’ at the Tate Modern have shown us. Richter was born in Dresden, East Germany and located to the West in the 1960s. His style continuously changes and the exhibition is a […]
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