Richard Morrisさんのイラストまとめ

Painted in 1974, this is one of Lucien Freud’s most probing self portraits. To depict himself was an act of estrangement. ‘You’ve got to try to paint yourself as another person,’ he said. ‘Looking in the mirror is a strain in a way that looking at other people isn’t at all.'

'Coal Miners,' (1949) was painted three years before Keith Vaughan visited the Nicolas de Staël exhibition at the Matthiesen Gallery in Bond Street. He realized direct representation was stifling his development and began to evolve a synthesis between observation and abstraction.

'From the City Walls, York.' (1954) When contemporaries such as Victor Pasmore were noisily abandoning representation for abstraction, Richard Eurich carried on painting from nature, respecting the laws of perspective and using his palette naturalistically.

'Dublin Bay, Portrait of the Artist's Wife,' (1912) depicts William Orpen's wife Grace at Howth Head overlooking Dublin Bay. Orpen considered the sky a perfect back projection, its mood reinforcing that of the subject.

Here's the Monday morning quiz from @AlanPar46565002 and me. Who painted this picture, who does it depict and can you give me two designs he oversaw?

Ruskin Spear's portrait is of the English cricketer Freddie Trueman who was the first cricketer to take 300 Test wickets (in his 65th Test match) and is considered one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Former PM Harold Wilson called him 'the greatest living Yorkshireman.'

'Scuole Grande di San Marco, Venice.' Kyffin Williams first visited Venice in 2004. Sixty years earlier at the Slade he had been inspired by Canaletto, Guardi and Paolo Veronese as well as visitors to the city including Monet, Turner and Sickert.

The man in this 1905 painting by Harold Gilman is something of an enigma. His bare feet and elegant form suggest that he might be an artist’s model, posing as a gardener in Gilman's studio if only because nobody ever did heavy digging barefoot in the British weather.

'Bath Time.' During the early 1950s Robin Darwin, the great-grandson of Charles made the Royal College a leading force in English art education, and in changing the fortunes and image of the Royal Academy of Arts. His approach was uncompromising. No shortcuts, no easy routes.

There is something rare and enigmatic happening in Michael Andrews’ art. In this oil sketch of the artist Leslie Davenport at work painting in his Norwich garden, there's sense of heat and summer light as compelling as any by Degas for example.