Painted Lives

Marina Vaizey

Painted Lives
Format
Paperback
Publisher
CV Publications
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 April 2017
Pages
50
ISBN
9781908419996

Painted Lives

Marina Vaizey

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Two of the most interesting and pioneering British artists of the 20th century may be just as crucial in the trajectory of modern art for their private lives, their biographies, as for their painting. Vanessa Bell was a significant woman artist, for whom portraiture was a central preoccupation, and whose personal life, as a member of the Bloomsbury Group, has been the subject of endless study. Her complex life story has almost obscured her art, which is now being newly examined. She experimented early on with abstraction, and then turned to domestic subjects, modifying the lessons of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism which had so influenced Bloomsbury artistic thinking. David Hockney is a hugely versatile artist - painter, draughtsman, print-maker, writer, stage-designer - who has always been fascinated with new technology, including photography, fax, film and iPad. Yet he too is essentially an autobiographical artist, . MV 04/2017

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