Exhibition review- Basquiat X Warhol
Emmanuelle Orr Emmanuelle Orr

Exhibition review- Basquiat X Warhol

This raises interesting questions about the idea of style, and of authoriality. Of course this is a question Warhol engaged with throughout his career, the works produced at the Factory challenging the same notion,

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Exhibitions review: Michael Armitage and David Hockney at the Royal Academy
Emmanuelle Orr Emmanuelle Orr

Exhibitions review: Michael Armitage and David Hockney at the Royal Academy

On one hand, British-Kenyan artist Michael Armitage whose works are fervent and febrile and brim with life: animals, humans and spirits fill the large cloth canvases, building up a carnival of creatures, surreal and mythological.

On the other hand, David Hockney’s large iPad drawings of the Normandy scenery, deliberately childish and flat.

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