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Cubism, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Paintings which changed the way in which we look at the world on show in Edinburgh
POTENT: (Left to right) Lyubov Popova: Painterly Architectonic, 1916; George Braque: Le Bougeoir (The Candlestick), 1911; Robert Delaunay: L’Equipe de Cardiff (The Cardiff Team), 1922-23
George Braque: Le Bougeoir (The Candlestick) © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018
[Antonia Reeve]
MIRANDA RICHMOND relishes the gloriously liberated art of Roy Oxlade, and traces his method back to the thinking of David Bomberg, his acknowledged teacher
MARTIN HALL examines the way the Roman orator took on different schools of philosophy
ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap
ANDY HEDGECOCK is astonished by a portrait of contemporary Greece, complete with political protest, organised crime and people trafficking, told from the point of view of — wait for it — runaway poultry
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Eagles Of The Republic, The Balloonists, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War
THIS compact exhibition packs a potent aesthetic punch. All the principal Cubists are represented, with work that allows a full appreciation of the movement that shook and shaped 20th-century art in all its diverse strands.
With the world in rapid flux, Cubism burst onto the scene around the turn of the 20th century. It challenged established but tired post-Renaissance canons with canvases that communicated simultaneous viewing of the subject from different perspectives.
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