Raphael: emerging artists respond
Interesting small exhibition at the British Museum which invited six emerging artists to reaction to a Raphael drawing to mark the 500th anniversary of the artists death.
The show included the double sided Raphael drawing of five studies of nude male torso’s from about 1505, drawn when he was in Florence. It was a result of him seeing Michelangelo’s lost “Battle of Cascina”.
I liked Chrystal Chia’s simplified ink and thread drawings which emphasised the line of the originals as well as Eva Suhajek’s bright abstract composition on shaped board which seems to mirror the shape of the figures on the drawing.
My favourite, shown here, was Yulin Huang’s colourful version of the drawings layering ink, spray paint, gouche and oil paintings on panel.
Closes 13 October 2021
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