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‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? ⊕⊕
Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent…
3 months ago
Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix review – chronically funny satire of the literary scene ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Full of word games, in-jokes and grisly murders, this debut pours gleeful scorn on the pretensions of contemporary literary life
Freud would have had a lot to say about a novel in which the central pr…
Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’ ○
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a story from Financial Times ✅ › Financial Times
The 94-year-old doyenne of British abstract art on influences from Seurat to Mondrian, her wartime childhood in Cornwall — and ‘the healing power of looking’
4 months ago
Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium ⊕
Antwerp exhibition testifies to growing recognition of woman who took gender-neutral name Tour to get on
In the turbulent years after the first world war when artistic experiment flourished, critics w…
7 months ago
‘I was struck by the grammar of it, the angular nature’: Elizabeth Day’s best phone picture ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The author’s instinctive image of colourful windows in a house undergoing renovation was selected for the Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition
Elizabeth Day felt as if she hadn’t seen the sun for …
12 months ago
‘She kept pushing the boundaries’: Paule Vézelay, the British abstract pioneer who found fame in interwar Paris ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A new exhibition celebrates the life and work of the maverick British artist beloved by Miro, Hemingway and Mondrian, who had to flee to Paris to realise her true artistic vision
Whichever art histori…
14 months ago
What is the Beatles’ most streamed song? The Saturday quiz ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
- Beatles ■■■
- John Adams ■■■
- Thomas Jefferson ■■■
- History Boys ■■■
- Miser ■■■
- Warning ■■■
- European ■■■
- Who ■■■
- Britain ■■■■
- Christmas ■■■■■
- England ■■■■
- Aaron Burr ■■■
- George Clinton ■■■
- Funny Face ■■■
- Rear Window ■■■
- Salvador ■■■
- Bridges ■■■
- Madison County ■■■
- Matisse ■■■
- Le Bateau ■■■
- Mondrian ■■■
- New York City ■■■
- Keeffe ■■■
- Oriental Poppies ■■■
- Emily Anderson ■■■
- William DuVall ■■■
- Brian Johnson ■■■
- Adam Lambert ■■■
- Substance ■■■
- Billy Liar ■■■
- Bridget Jones ■■■
- Diary ■■■
- Washington ■■■
- Place Kléber ■■■
- Strasbourg ■■■
- Trafalgar Square ■■■
- London ■■■■
From John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to The History Boys, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The Miser’s Warning was the subtitle of an 1844 adaptation of what story?
2 What term for a trends…
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