John A. Walker
After Vincent van Gogh 1 by John A. Walker (2008)
→ café library - photoJohn A. Walker - 25 Aug 11 After Vincent van Gogh 1 by John A. Walker (2008). Oil on Linen, 120 x 100 cm. Click to see the Vincent van Gogh drawing on which this painting is based. Also click to see more paintings from the Vincent van Gogh series with compare / contrasts of the original...
John A. Walker. Orange: Ripe, (2005)
→ café library - photoJohn A. Walker - 25 Aug 11 John A. Walker. Orange: Ripe, (2005). Oil on canvas, 130 x 130 cm. Collection Tom and Sally Vernon.
Backbeat film (2003)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 12 Mar 11 A review by John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen. This docudrama and rock ’n’ roll film is about two years in the life of a young British art student and bass guitar player called Stuart Sutcliffe (1940-62), who was of Scottish origin, and his participation in early...
SUPERCOLLECTOR:
A Critique of Charles Saatchi (4th edn)
(Press release) (2010-11)
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ADP staff, Rita Hatton, John A. Walker - 13 Feb 11 ADP staff; Text by Institute of Artology, Esher, UK artdesigncafé | café library | Published 13 February 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUPERCOLLECTOR: A Critique of Charles Saatchi (4th edn) Rita Hatton & John A. Walker Esher: Institute of Artology, 2010 (November), 400 pages, 68 illus....
Charles Saatchi: "Supercollector" -
The revolution continues: New Art from China
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Rita Hatton, John A. Walker - 11 Dec 10 Excerpt from Rita Hatton & John A. Walker’s 2010, 4th edition book. Charles Saatchi inaugurated his third gallery with a show of new Chinese art (October 2008 - January 2009). (In this instance he was behind a public gallery— Tate Liverpool— which had mounted a Chinese show in spring...
New Neurotic Realism & Charles Saatchi (1999)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineRita Hatton, John A. Walker - 15 Nov 10 Excerpt fr. Supercollector: A critique of Charles Saatchi (4th ed.) by Rita Hatton & John A. Walker. While the crowds inside the galleries of [the Royal Academy of Arts] were still assimilating Sensation during the autumn of 1997, Charles Saatchi was already preparing his next move in the...
John Lennon: Art, film and music (2010)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 12 Oct 10 The music legend would have turned 70 last Saturday; in tribute, John A. Walker offers a historical overview of Lennon’s history and contributions to art and film. John Lennon (1940-80) came from a lower middle-class, suburban background in Liverpool. Although intelligent he had a poor school...
Charles Saatchi branding iron : Order now!
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 04 Sep 10 "You are nobody in contemporary art until you have been branded." Your attention please: Press release— Announcing The Charles Saatchi branding iron—for branding artists’ flesh, dead cows, sheep and sharks, etc.) "One cannot help but think of Saatchi as a ’brand manager’." —Neil...
Between the lines (1977) film review
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Aug 10 A review by John A. Walker (2010), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Although this American comedy and drama from the 1970s is about journalism and professional and personal relationships rather than art and artists in general, it merits inclusion in any discussion of art in cinema...
Alison Jackson’s photographs
or "Mental images"
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John A. Walker - 30 Jul 10 An essay by John A. Walker, the author of the books Art in the Age of Mass Media, Art and Celebrity and Art & outrage. Alison Jackson’s "Mental images" Alison Jackson. Still fr. Diana video, (from "Mental images" series), 1998, black and white photograph / print. Alison Jackson became...
Charles Saatchi & Sensation (1997)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineRita Hatton, John A. Walker - 15 Jul 10 Excerpt fr. Supercollector: A critique of Charles Saatchi (4th ed.) by Rita Hatton & John A. Walker. Although Charles Saatchi dislikes attending private views— even those lavish ones organised by his own gallery— over the years he has inevitably become acquainted with a number of...
Art and celebrity book summary (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Jul 10 Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity culture, which is now so pervasive,...
Paul Gauguin in Paradise found (2003)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10 Review by John A. Walker (2010), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Kiefer Sutherland is a major American movie and television star even though he was born in London in 1966 and raised in Canada. Since he is the son of Donald Sutherland, he has benefited from having a famous...
Paul Gauguin in The wolf at the door (1986)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10 Review by John A. Walker (2010), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Since Paul Gauguin’s wife Mette was Danish, the Danes have a special reason to be interested in him. Henning Carlsen (born Aalborg, 1927), the Danish producer-director of The wolf at the door has explained that...
Paul Gauguin in The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10 Review by John A. Walker (2010), the author of Art & Artists on screen. In 1919, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) wrote a fictionalised version of Paul Gauguin’s life entitled The Moon and Sixpence on which a screenplay by Albert Lewin (1894-1968) was based. Lewin also directed the...
Paul Gauguin on screen (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Jun 10 By John A. Walker, the author of Art & Artists on screen. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) achieved fame because of the opulent colours, decorative beauty and enigmatic symbolism of his post-impressionist canvases and because of his lurid biography— his late start as a painter, his financial and...
