John Baker’s Blog

This exhibition at The National Gallery brings out some old favourites as well as introducing us to some lesser known pictures.
Briefly, there are groupings of Monets, Pissaros, Degas’, Renoirs, Van Goghs and Cezannes, mostly taken from the gallery’s own collection, but some placed alongside loans from elsewhere.
The exhibition is portrayed broadly chronologically and there [...]

Herbert Read argued, in 1933, that the modernist movement had produced the greatest seismic change of all time. We were not, he wrote, concerned with an unprecedented development. But with an abrupt break with all tradition. The aim of five centuries of European effort is openly abandoned.
Twenty years later, C S Lewis, referred to the [...]