What do Poussin and the London Underground have in common?

Nicolas Poussin, Triumph of David, Dulwich Picture Gallery.	Clive Head, Terminus Place, Dulwich Picture Gallery.

If you go along to this  forthcoming talk at Dulwich Picture Gallery, you might find out. 

In Conversation: Nicolas Poussin and Clive Head

Tuesday 4 December

7 for 7. 30pm/Linbury Room

Join Xavier Bray, this time in conversation with artist Clive Head and critic Michael Paraskos as they discuss Clive Head’s project From Victoria to Arcadia at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Marlborough Fine Art.  Painted in response to Nicolas Poussin’s The Triumph of David, Clive Head’s work ‘Terminus Place’ will sit temporarily alongside the gallery’s collection of works by Poussin. This provides a timely opportunity to reconsider the place of the artist today and a look back to Old Master techniques.

Clive Head’s work From Victoria to Arcadia will be on display from 10 October 2012 until 13 January 2013. He is the leading British realist painter of his generation, known for his striking paintings of urban landscapes.

Michael Parasko is director of programmes for the Cyprus College of Art and is one of a new generation of art critics associated with the New Aesthetics.

£10, £8 Friends - Includes a glass of wine

This is yet another attempt by this gallery to show their Poussin’s holdings next to a modern artist. This sounds pretty pointless to me- Poussin is able to speak for himself.

I found this comment by Head on another site.

“Poussin has helped me to understand that art is not about the documentation of our world and that the artist is not a social commentator. Art has a far more important purpose which is to reveal a world beyond our own. I have no interest in the stories Poussin chooses at the beginning of his journey but the very means in which he redefines reality every time he picks up a paintbrush."

And the view from Dulwich is….

“Juxtaposing two very different worlds - the classical world of Poussin and Head’s depiction of one of London’s busiest tube stations - will provide a startling visual comparison, which I hope will inspire visitors to look at Poussin in a totally different way.”

To which I reply in amazement…Oh yeah? If anybody can tell me how a photorealist painting of the London Underground helps people appreciate the subtleties of Poussin’s art, then let me know- the laugh will do me good. 

I hope the Standard send Brian Sewell to review this.

Comments

[Gressy1971]

But Clive Head is not a photorealist. Perhaps you should look at a painting, rather than a photograph of one, before judging things. That might improve the level of your criticism.

[David Packwood]

Alright, I stand corrected. I'm not an expert on modern art. FYI, I don't have a problem with Clive Head per se; just don't see the point of displaying him next to Poussin.

DP

[Gressy1971]

But the point is, how can you tell whether it is worth it without seeing the work? Until you see the painting "in the flesh" you don't know whether the way the space is organised, or the colours used, or perhaps even the surface of the painting (the way the paint is put on the canvas) is not like a Poussin.

I think you have to remember that in the 1990s Head was making paintings that were very like Poussin's work, that is mythological and allegorical subjects set in Arcadian landscapes, which did look Poussinesque. In the early 2000s he started painting contemporary urban scenes. But what he is saying here is there is still a link to Poussin. This is not an artist who has jumped on a recent bandwagon, he has claimed a link to Poussin for over 20 years!

So rather than dismissing that Poussin pedigree in Head, in the way you can with the nonsensical attempt to connect the dire work of Chris Ofili with Titian at the National Gallery, I think it is worth going to see the Head painting alongside the Poussin at Dulwich before making a value judgement as to whether the claims being made have any validity.

[Graeme]

David,

Could not agree more with your assessment, it seems just to be about "startling difference" for the sake of an exhibition. Perhaps Gressy1971 could point out this actual link to Poussin, when he asserts "there still is a link being said to Poussin" in this painting. I cannot perceive it. Where is it?

[David Packwood]

Gressy,I don't know much about Head's work. If he has been doing paintings based on Poussin mythological subjects, and his work has been informed by Poussin's technique, that's fine. I'm glad a modern artist has been inspired by Poussin. But then why don't the curators show these "Poussinesque" paintings in this exhibition?

The Dulwich curators have focused on Heada's painting of an underground station, and as Graeme says, and as I believe too, they seem to have nothing in common. What is it?

For the record I have nothing against Head or his devotees. As a Poussin scholar I'm concerned that curators, especially at Dulwich, seem to be manufacturing these shows for their own dubious agendas. Poussin would be served better if they arranged exhibitions of his own art, ideally with other museums. Let the public see Poussin in his own paint, as it were.

DP

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