Patrick Cullen explains the enduring appeal of paintings requiring only to be looked at I showed some paintings of flowers I had done recently to a

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nginx/1.17.10 friend. He said he quite liked them but they appeared to create a problem for him. He seemed to feel that flowers

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were no longer a subject for serious artists, more one for Sunday […]

Patrick Cullen

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nginx/1.17.10 explains why Grayson Perry missed an opportunity by avoiding the important issues he claimed to be addressing. Grayson Perry was a surprising choice to deliver the Reith Lectures given the list of senior academics, elder statesmen and

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those at the top of their profession preceding him in the job. One wondered why, when it came to contemporary art […]

If any Jackdaw readers were still in doubt about just how rigged the contemporary art market is after numerous

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articles on the subject, many from the

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nginx/1.17.10 editor, then Phil Redman’s piece “The Crap Art Market” (The Jackdaw, no 108) should have put the matter beyond doubt. So I take all that as read. Less obvious is why the domination of […]

… Painter Patrick Cullen supplies damning evidence that the answer is ‘No!’ A detailed survey of 2011’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition reveals that the

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non-members’ work now represents only 29% of the total exhibition if measured by the amount of wall space it commands. This is in contrast to a figure of 78% estimated for the same show exactly

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Inspired by landscape painter Patrick Cullen, The Jackdaw Sept-Oct 2011 reprinted pieces about the Royal Academy that have appeared in The Jackdaw over the last eleven years.

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nginx/1.17.10 All deal with the genuine fears of artists that the Summer Exhibition is progressively a closed

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shop whilst being marketed as an ‘Open’. Patrick’s research succinctly reinforces previous claims made by artists that […]