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

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nginx/1.17.10 to feel that flowers were no longer a

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subject for serious artists, more one for Sunday […]

Patrick Cullen explains why Grayson Perry missed

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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

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nginx/1.17.10 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 articles on the subject,

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nginx/1.17.10 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 is why the

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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 non-members’ work now represents only 29% of the total exhibition if

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nginx/1.17.10 measured by the amount of wall space it commands. This

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is in contrast to a figure of 78% estimated for the same show exactly one […]

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

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nginx/1.17.10 years. All deal with the genuine fears of artists that the Summer Exhibition is

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