📗 Libro en inglés HOW PAINTING HAPPENS (AND WHY IT MATTERS) A TIMES BOOK OF THE Y EAR 2024

A Times Book of the Year This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it Andrew Marr New Statesman If you are someone who revels in the deliciousness of oil paintings who looks at them and wants to eat them as if they were ice cream or something in Damien Hirst s phrase then Martin Gayford s latest book will be a banquet The Spectator Martin Gayford long serving critic and art historian is a trusted insider and a favoured guest of the most celebrated talents in the UK and beyond If anyone knows what makes them tick it ought to be this latter day Vasari Stimulating and sumptuously illustrated Financial Times From El Greco to Picasso Martin Gayford s How Painting Happens offers us an encyclopedic journey through art history Daily Telegraph A remarkable painting can move the soul So how does it come about Martin Gayford brilliantly marks out the path from inspiration to execution The Irish Times Drawing on decades of conversations with practising artists Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice meaning and potential of painting Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains v