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• Roy Powell obituary

  03-04-2022 18:25
  
  The Welsh artist Roy Powell, who has died aged 87, was a distinguished painter in both oil and watercolour, particularly in the still-life “vanitas” tradition.His distinctive paintings, as with those of his biggest influence, Cézanne, emerge from a contemplative, intense emotional involvement with subject. Vanitas paintings, in a philosophical tradition dating from the 17th century, are a confident assertion of life alongside a reminder of its ephemeral nature. In Roy’s
  
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• Letter: Rozanne Hawksley obituary

  03-04-2022 17:20
  
  In 2017 I had a hand in helping the purchase by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales of Aberfan: 21st October 1966/Nos Da, Cariad X, a gloved wreath by the textile artist Rozanne Hawksley. Rozanne had been very moved by the 50th commemorations of the Aberfan disaster, and this was her response. The piece, with its web of black beads and netting holding a torn child’s mitten, is now in the collection of the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff. Continue reading...
  
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• Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts review – brilliant and bewitching

  03-04-2022 14:00
  
  The Wallace Collection, London
  An exhibition paying homage to Walt Disney’s love of French art is playful and spellbinding, revealing how rococo clocks, paintings and tea sets were drawn into his most famous filmsPink castles, talking sofas, a butler based on a golden candlestick, mirrored ballrooms that stretch into an infinity of twinkling reflections – the fantasies of Walt Disney are so spectacular they seem entirely without precedent. He seems sui generis, a true American genius
  
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