The Dying Language of Art

Prospect Magazine
January 2000

The painter Susannah Fiennes continues an occasional column in which she tells us what is happening in great paintings. This month, ” Pereus and Andromeda” by Titian…

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Misreading Chardin

Prospect Magazine
September 2000

Once again the catalogue for an important exhibition fails to tell us anythin g about how to understand the language of the paintings on show, argues Susannah Fiennes….

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It’s the Visual that is Vital

The Daily Telegraph
13 May 2000

“Great exhibitions are spoilt by the catalogues and wall labels”, says Susannah Fiennes.” Let’s have less art history and more on the art of painting”.

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Where is Kossoff?

Prospect Magazine
September 2000

Leon Kossoff’s absence from Tate Modern is further evidence that curators have given up trying to help us appreciate the language of painting, says Susannah Fiennes…

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Red, Yellow and Blue

The Daily Telegraph
5th January 2002

From my window in Greenwich Village, on the morning of September 11 2001, I was struck by the dramatic sight of a row of six or seven workmen standing on the roof of the building next door and look anxiously up at the sky. So beautiful was the vision of their golden faces in red helmets, dazzling against the blue sky, that I summoned a visiting friend to photograph the theatrical moment.

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