Dorment

There's the visual arts — here's Richard Dorment talking about Jasper Johns 'early paintings in the current issue of The New York Review of Books: Whereas Rothko's floating expanses of dark color seemed to offer the possibility that art can provide transcendental spiritual experience, Johns's work was down to earth.

Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008

There's the visual arts — here's Richard Dorment talking about Jasper Johns 'early paintings in the current issue of The New York Review of Books: Whereas Rothko's floating expanses of dark color seemed to offer the possibility that art can provide transcendental spiritual experience, Johns's work was down to earth.

Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Most egregious, Dorment asks his reader to believe that the new material in Hogarth is only "further thoughts on those already published" in the 1971 work.

Lenin's Paintings 2009

But according to Dorment, completely empty of real feeling or thought.

Waterhouse 2009

The dilettante Horace Walpole, whom Dorment cites as his contemporary witness ( "Hogarth is not a difficult artist"), regarded Hogarth as condescendingly as does Dorment.

Lenin's Paintings 2009

I can only ask the reader to decide: Is Hogarth's vision of "England" so optimistic, so lighthearted as Dorment would like to think?

Lenin's Paintings 2009

But according to Dorment, completely empty of real feeling or thought.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Richard Dorment in The Telegraph in his review of the Royal Academy's new exhibition.

Waterhouse 2009

Richard Dorment in The Telegraph in his review of the Royal Academy's new exhibition.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

In that context Dorment speaks for the generation of Ralph Edwards and Ellis Waterhouse, whose position was represented at its most distinguished in E.H. Gombrich's attack on Leo Steinberg's "overreading" of Michelangelo in this same journal in 1977.

Lenin's Paintings 2009