Art London Returns to Chelsea this October with More than 70 Art Galleries

LONDON.- Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee at the Royal Hospital in London’s fashionable Chelsea from Thursday 7 until Monday 11 October 2010. The eclectic mix of art on sale offers visitors works by internationally renowned names, as well as accomplished emerging artists. The art comes in many forms and media, including: paintings, drawings, glass works, sculpture and photography. These all [...]

Caravaggio’s Friends and Foes Opened at Whitfield Fine Art

LONDON.- Caravaggio was a man who made enemies easily. A quick tempered, intolerant artistic genius who was fond of a drink and prone to violence, he was frequently in trouble with the authorities and eventually fled Rome after being accused of murdering a former friend in a gang fight. This uncouth upstart also outraged the artistic establishment by by-passing traditional training methods and giving young painters the idea that all they had to do was to put brush to palette [...]

Whitfield Fine Art Presents an Exhibition of New Work by Ilona Szalay

LONDON.- Whitfield Fine Art is keen to support emerging artists and presents an exhibition of new work by Ilona Szalay. The exhibition concentrates on series of works exploring the workings of the figure and of the flesh in the nude. For this exhibition Ilona Szalay has painted a series of women and girls naked, nude, undressed or semi-clad. Their bodies have been constructed using thick, sensual layers of oil paint which is barely contained from bursting its boundaries and flooding [...]

Caravaggio’s Friends & Foes Announced at Whitfield Fine Art

LONDON.- Caravaggio always attracted controversy and by the time of his death aged only 38 in 1610 was hailed as an artistic genius by his supporters but regarded as an abrasive upstart with the blood of a murder on his hands by his enemies. His decisive break with artistic tradition and dramatic use of light inspired a generation of Caravaggesque artists. Whitfield Fine Art, a leading international specialist in Old Master paintings, is marking the 400th anniversary of his death [...]

Paintings from the 1950s & 1960s by Theodore Mendez at Whitfield Fine Art

LONDON.- Whitfield Fine Art presents an exhibition of early abstract paintings by 20th Century British artist Theodore Mendez (1934-1997). The exhibition is a reassessment of this talented artist’s early abstract work. Theodore Mendez first attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1950, at a time when so many, now icons, of 20th century British Art were also drawn to the School. The 1940s had seen Victor Pasmore, Michael Ayrton, John Minton, Keith Vaughan, Edward Ardizzone and William Coldstream hold posts [...]