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 friend. He said he quite liked them but they appeared to create a problem for him. He seemed to feel that flowers were no longer a subject for serious… Continue reading Do real artists still paint flowers?
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Grayson Perry’s 2014 Reith Lectures – a missed opportunity
Patrick Cullen 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 those at the top of their profession preceding him in the job. One wondered why, when… Continue reading Grayson Perry’s 2014 Reith Lectures – a missed opportunity
Why shit can never be art – painter Patrick Cullen contests the commonly held view that a relic of an idea is a work of art
If any Jackdaw readers were still in doubt about just how rigged the contemporary art market is after numerous articles on the subject, many from the 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… Continue reading Why shit can never be art – painter Patrick Cullen contests the commonly held view that a relic of an idea is a work of art
Can the RA summer exhibition still be considered an open submission show?
… Painter Patrick Cullen supplies damning evidence that the answer is ‘No!’ A detailed survey of 2011’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition reveals that the 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… Continue reading Can the RA summer exhibition still be considered an open submission show?
The RA is not a charity
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. All deal with the genuine fears of artists that the Summer Exhibition is progressively a closed shop whilst being marketed as an ‘Open’. Patrick’s research succinctly reinforces previous… Continue reading The RA is not a charity