Tag Archives: 20th century painting

Chaïm Soutine, misfit artistic genius in 1930s Paris

Art   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on September 28, 2016     Permalink     Comments (2)

Could anyone have better fitted the 20th-century archetype of an artist than Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943)? He was a temperamental social misfit who painted in a frenzy when inspiration struck him, at the same time creating an important new expressive style. Plus,… Read more

Take a look behind the scenes as a new exhibition goes up

Art   Collections & Objects   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery
Posted by administrator on December 18, 2012     Permalink     Comments (4)

Ana, the museum service’s picture conservator, is making the last cleaning touches to a painting for the new exhibition of pictures from the Laing’s collection. She’s using moistened cotton wool wound around a special cleaning stick – a painstaking job. The… Read more