BANKSY INSPIRED BY THE CHURCH
The anonymous street artist Banksy is known for his graffiti work and graphic statements. His latest work is a sculpture being displayed at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool alongside artistic masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck within room three of the museum’s 17th century old master galleries, reported CultHub. His new art work, Cardinal Sin, is a vandalised statue of a priest with a sawed off face, in place of the face is an arrangement of blank tiles which gives it a pixellated look. The sculpture is a comment on the child abuse cover-up within the Catholic church and is being displayed “for an indefinite amount of time.” And […]
BACON ON BLOCK: £18 MILLION
A “seductive and sexually charged” Francis Bacon painting entitled The Portrait Of Henrietta Moraes, is expected to fetch £18 million ($27.8 million) when it goes on sale at Christie’s in central London on February 14, according to The Huffington Post UK. Francis Outred, Christie’s head of post-war and contemporary art, Europe, said: “Searing with raw colour and texture, Portrait Of Henrietta Moraes is one of the most seductive and sexually-charged paintings I have ever encountered by Francis Bacon “The carefully constructed mood through colour is forcefully invaded by the extraordinary swipes of the loaded brush, which create the woman’s voluptuous figure. This juxtaposition of the sheer beauty of colour with […]