Word Watch: Imaginary
The term “imaginary” used as a noun is cropping up frequently in recent prose. It seems at first sight a totally alien item.
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The term “imaginary” used as a noun is cropping up frequently in recent prose. It seems at first sight a totally alien item.
Bingham conveys so well his sense of the burgeoning potential of what was then the Far Western borderland of America.
The smallest grinning boy has his hand on Felipe’s thigh – a friendly gesture that seems to contradict the refusal to share the tart.
The word ‘untitled’ is not a lazy evasion of Francis’s duty to inform us of his intention. It is a candid declaration that what we see is what we must work with.
For years, this painting was well known as a work by the great Scottish portrait-painter Sir Henry Raeburn. But there have always been many reasons to doubt that attribution.
Despite its cool, unemotional title, the painting is more than an objective study of an effect of light: this almost has the richness of a portrait.
Adam Elsheimer’s jewel-like images embody in miniature form some of the most powerful ideas to be found in Baroque art.
Kasimir Malevich’s groundbreaking work in the Russian avant-garde movement has resulted in pretentious emulation.
Much of the late nineteenth-century preoccupation with the femme fatale is prefigured in this image.
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