He has dressed his warrior in a composite of antique armour that seems to swamp him, just as thoughts of imminent future bloodshed surely must. The ultimate feet-on-the-ground artist undercuts the champion’s gleam with human insight. It is thought that this painting portrays the young conqueror Alexander the Great, although idealised heroism is hardly Rembrandt’s line. The ceiling features a dictum paraphrased from the Canadian poet Dennis Lee – “Work as if you were living in the early days of a better nation” – now engraved on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall. Its panels present figures from various belief systems against a blue cosmos. His mural for the auditorium of the Òran Mór arts venue is in another league, though. His first murals for the city can be found in the Ubiquitous Chip restaurant and Hillhead subway station. Alasdair Gray – The Auditorium Celestial Ceiling MuralĪlasdair Gray’s work will be familiar to any Glasgow local. As a painter renowned for his depiction of animals, the theme also gave him a chance to include the family dachshund, Fritz. Leading Glasgow Boy artist Crawhall here embraces a sense of late 19th-century modernism through a watercolour of his sister Beatrice, on a bicycle. These range from architectural in scale to tiny, such as the ceramic plaques in Julie’s Garden. Throughout nine themed landscapes, foliage, waterways and birdsong complete more than 270 works where his minimalist poetry is carved on sculptures created with craftspeople. The result is a one-off fusion of human creativity and nature. Ian Hamilton Finlay spent decades developing the seven acres of garden and moorland that surround Stonypath farm in the Pentland Hills with his wife, Sue. The bells are rearranged in the positions of the stars on the night of Boltanski’s birth. Here it finds expression in more than 200 Japanese bells, swaying and chiming in the wind on an island to produce what he called the “music of the souls”. SSīoltanski, who died last year, made autobiographical art that probed history, memory and mortality. This 1999 recreation of his studio, packed with casts and research, offers insights on his pioneering methods. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, EdinburghĮduardo Paolozzi had a roving imagination, from the burgeoning post-second world war consumerism that powered his pop collages to the sci-fi that influenced his industrial assemblage sculpture. It’s suggestive of organic existence at its most sexual. She then made plaster casts and cast them in bronze, reversing the hole into the flower’s upright stigma. Chadwick created her flowers while on a residency in Canada in the 1990s, by making mounds of snow, shaping them into flowers, then urinating on them with her partner to wear down the snow into valleys around a central hole. Urine is not used enough as an artistic material. In the time this statue was made, in about 100BC to 50BC, cultures were mingling farther north as well as in Sudan as Greeks, Egyptians and Romans shared gods and art. It has a connection with ancient Egyptian art yet is much craggier, if more natural in its fleshy chest and arms. This massive character strides towards you in the main hall of the National Museum, its presence as mysterious as an Easter Island head. Bacon’s is a prophetic image that sees into the darkest corners of hell.
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Painted a decade before Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann sat in a glass box for his trial in Jerusalem. The enthroned figure is stuck in a limbo between palace and prison: there are traces of gothic vaulting that suggest the Sistine Chapel yet he is isolated inside a glass booth. In this 1951 masterpiece he reaches into the past to capture the anguish of the present. Yet Bacon, a gay man before the reforms of the 1960s, always saw the mainstream with an outsider’s irony. Avant-garde art had always rejected traditional themes.
It took a gambler and drinker to turn modern art on its head. The bloody spoils seem like a trophy, and are more chilling for it. The culture clash that underpinned Cranach’s art – German courtly splendour and strait-laced religious reformation – powers a magnetic imagining of Jewish heroine Judith displaying the head of Assyrian general Holofernes.
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Judith With the Head of Holofernes Photograph: Peter Cavanagh/Alamy Scotlandġ. Judith With the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach.