ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By
Ernest &
Gregory Disney-Britton
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| "The Agony in the Garden" (1469) by Giovanni Bellini |
You will want to know this. There are amazing paintings in the exhibition, "Painters' Paintings" this summer in London. There are works by
Picasso,
Bellini,
Rembrandt, and others all previously owned by other artists such as
Anthony van Dyck,
Henri Matisse, and
Lucian Freud. It's an opportunity to see what these artists collected, but it's also an exhibition that investigates why they collected the work of other artists. Reasons presented include a desire for creative inspiration, to support fellow painters, as status symbols, to sell later and even obsession. With today's cheaper travel to Britain because of
Brexit, we should all be heading to
The National Gallery in London.
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| 'The Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross' (1540-1560) by Titian. Oil on canvas |
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