The Art Exhibitions Blog

Vuillard, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Hammershøi: The British painter Harold Gilman seems to have to sucked up a whole range of continental European artistic influences and, in the second decade of the 20th century, distilled them into a series of intimate, often enigmatic, colour-filled pictures. He died in 1919, aged 43, in the Spanish flu epidemic that swept away millions around the world at the tail end of World War I. An appropriate anniversary, then, for an exhibition about Gilman at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, the first such show for 35 years. It's called Harold Gilman: Beyond Camden Town , because it focuses on the final decade of the artist's career, when he moved on from the rather more formal post-Impressionism of the Camden Town Group around the often very murky Walter Sickert. He continued to depict everyday subjects and apply his paint thickly but became, well, just a little bit more daring and experimental. At the start of this show there's a brownish...

There's an impressive range of new art shows starting in both London and Paris in March. So before cross-Channel traffic grinds to a juddering halt.... The rediscovery of Greek and Roman art in the 15th and 16th centuries saw artists north and south of the Alps put the human body at the forefront of their painting and sculpture. That's the theme of The Renaissance Nude  from March 3 to June 2 at the Royal Academy in London. Titian, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bronzino, Dürer and Cranach are among those represented in an exhibition of around 90 works. Over at Tate Britain, the largest assembly of Vincent van Gogh's paintings in the UK for nearly a decade -- 45 of them -- is the big selling point of Van Gogh and Britain . The show   explores how he was inspired by British art and culture -- Constable, Millais and Dickens -- and in turn inspired British artists like Francis Bacon and David Bomberg. March 27 to August 11, with standard tickets costing £22, reflecti...