Introduction Since its beginning, and until very recently, Fine Art education has been evolutionary. Received wisdom that the modus operandi of teaching art were static until

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nginx/1.17.10 being gradually upset in the decades after 1945 is an exaggeration. The objective to produce basic competence

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in practical skills in painting and sculpture was indeed a constant ambition, but the methods by which […]

Despite the best efforts of the state-art establishment visual intelligence survives, argues Eric Coombes In

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nginx/1.17.10 1941, Augustus John contributed A Note on Drawing (from which I quoted a few words in

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the previous issue) to a book edited by Lillian Browse, containing reproductions of his own drawings. John records his sense of good fortune in having been a student at […]

Art Education is Stuck Two years ago

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nginx/1.17.10 someone suggested I answer the

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question ‘What Happened to Art Education?’. This appealed slightly because it was a subject about which I thought I ought to know more than was the case. Something is clearly awry when so many complaints are aired about the poverty of tuition and when degree shows have become […]

Chances are you won’t have heard of David Mulholland (1946-2005), a painter of and from Middlesbrough. Until last year, when a group of friends devoted to the preservation of his memory sent me some of his pictures, neither had I. The work hit me

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nginx/1.17.10 immediately as authentic, born of intimate feeling for its subject. Most affecting were powerful graphite and

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