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Anatomy of an artwork

  • Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes (detail)

    Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes: a vision of vengeance

    There’s a violent urgency to the 17th-century Italian painter’s iconic work, which resembles a female version of David and Goliath
  • Nathaniel Mary Quinn - Lunch 2020

    Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Lunch: the human form stripped back to its essence

    The American mixed-media artist’s new work explores the way we perceive each other, especially during the pandemic
  • Dana Schutz's
Boat Group

    Dana Schutz’s Boat Group: dystopian visions and existential angst

    The American artist turns the still-life cliche, a bowl of fruit, into a crazed Raft of the Medusa
  • Dana Lixenberg's
Big Shaan

    Dana Lixenberg’s Big Shaan: a stark tale of neglect

    The Dutch photographer and film-maker’s 20-year project preserves moments from a part of LA that the US would rather forget about
  • Tavares Strachan’s  Every Knee Shall Bow

    Tavares Strachan’s Every Knee Shall Bow: cryptic clues

    The New York-based conceptual artist reiterates the power of narrative, as told by the storyteller
  • Victor Hugo’s Dentelles et Sprectres

    Victor Hugo's Dentelles et Spectres: phantom threads

    The famous poet and novelist, and lesser-known painter, created shape-shifting visual creations
  • Max Ernst’s La Joie de vivre (The Joy of Life)

    Max Ernst’s The Joy of Life: horror rooted in the everyday

    The great surrealist explores trauma by painting the woods, a stand-in for wild imagination in 19th-century Romanticism
  • Sutapa Biswas’s Housewives with Steak-knives

    Sutapa Biswas’s Housewives With Steak-Knives: avenging goddess

    The London-based artist challenges Britain’s colonial past and art history’s prejudices
  • YOUNG REMBRANDT Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) Bearded Old Man, 1632
Oil on panel, 66.9 x 50.7 cm Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

    Rembrandt’s Bearded Old Man: captures an end-of-the-day feeling

    A young Rembrandt painted this study in his mid-20s, honing his craft with finely layered paint
  • Ruth Ewan’s Worker’s Song storydeck (film still), 2018.

    Ruth Ewan’s Worker’s Song Storydeck: a Marxist magic trick

    The Scottish artist made the film in collaboration with magician Billy Reid, swapping kings and queens for workers’ struggles
  • Cao Fei's Asia One

    Cao Fei’s Asia One: human behaviour

    The Chinese visual artist delivers a surreal sci-fi romcom that speaks to China’s past and the global future
  • Catherine Opie's
Rusty

    Catherine Opie's Rusty: jock meets surfer dude

    The American photographer known for capturing gender fluidity questions the age-old view of manliness
  • Tullio Crali
Tricolour Wings, 1932 (Ali tricolori)
Oil on plywood
72 x 56 cm

    Tullio Crali’s Tricolour Wings: cosmic vision

    The Italian futurist painter who looked to capture the world from a new perspective conveys the thrill of flight
  • At Segregated Drinking Fountain

    Gordon Parks’s At Segregated Drinking Fountain: persistent inequalities

    The American photographer was a pioneering voice in documenting the everyday radical divide
  • The Tower by Walter Wegmuller

    Walter Wegmüller’s The Tower: the all-seeing eye of providence

    The Swiss painter is known for creating a set of tarot cards, with the Tower seen as a sign of disaster
  • Sunil Gupta’s Untitled No 12, 1988.

    Sunil Gupta’s Untitled No 12: love, poetry and protest

    The Indian-born photographer known for capturing lives at the margins of society looks at the impact of Section 28
  • Tschabalala Self’s Pop

    Tschabalala Self's Pop: a vision of plenitude

    The American artist explores the complex back and forth between personal desires and outside influences
  • Mike Silva’s Tempa T

    Mike Silva's Tempa T: the politics of representation

    The London-based Swedish artist paints the politics of representation in stark and understated tones
  • Jessie Makinson’s Furry Darkness

    Jessie Makinson’s Furry Darkness: a carnivalesque party

    The British artist paints a tantalisingly drama in an eerie landscape – a space for dreaming and reimagining
  • The Tree of Life (1922) by CG Jung

    C.G. Jung’s The Tree of Life: from Norse gods to eastern mysticism

    Included in the secret Red Book, the illustration marks Jung’s departure from science into the realms of myth, magic and soul
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