The Easel

23rd April 2019

How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s

The 1960’s US art scene was not all abstraction and Pop. Chicago had its own art moment – the Imagists. The group aesthetic was defined by quirky figuration and use of graphics. Sometimes the work looks like Pop – a love of bright colours and signage – though without the irony. Says the writer “I find myself falling for the work against my better judgment”.

16th April 2019

The radical prints of Edvard Munch: ‘New ways to express moods and emotions’

Munch painted The Scream in 1893. Nothing happened. In 1895, he made a black and white lithograph of the same image – it established his reputation. His “utterly dynamic” printmaking was both popular and influential, especially among Germany’s Expressionists. “One really can’t talk of Munch’s greatness without considering the prints alongside the paintings.”