Margot A. Loudon, artist.

I visited the exhibition Three Generations of Japanese printmaking  at the Dulwich Picture Gallery to get a better understanding of the woodblock printing tradition, and its development and to learn the story of this remarkable family, the Yoshidas. The influence of Japanese prints on great western artists from the Edo period, by masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their contemporaries, ... Read MoreRead More »

The exhibition at Tate Modern, Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, is wonderful. I enjoy many exhibitions and take pleasure in looking at many works of art, but I am in awe of der Blaue Reiter, the group of young men and women who pushed art in new and exciting directions in the three years immediately preceding the First ... Read MoreRead More »

I have visited twice the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, “Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70”.  This ambitious exhibition aims to celebrate abstract women artists of the mid-20th century and their role in shaping the art of their time. It is an overwhelming exhibition. Around a core of better-known American women painters and some western European artists swirl lesser-known names ... Read MoreRead More »

This is a short musing on the pavilions I viewed in the Giardini, one of the two principal Biennale sites. Unlike the flexible spaces for national displays in the Arsenale, the pavilions are historically established dedicated buildings, period pieces in their own right.  Their distinctive architecture reflects the times in which they were built, ranging from the early years of ... Read MoreRead More »

One of the rooms in the heart of the Milk of Dreams exhibition in the Giardini venue is entitled The Witch’s Cradle. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum is showing an exhibition, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. These venues celebrate the twentieth century surrealists, in the Giardini space the work of the women especially. In this second of my blogs on the ... Read MoreRead More »