Visual Arts at London Galleries and More Reviews on The Arts Desk ...

In the selection of art reviews on The Arts Desk this week, several big names feature highly, although this doesn?t necessarily mean that satisfaction is guaranteed.

We start away from the London galleries in Bath, for something a little different from Thomas Gainsborough. The painter was famed as the leading portraitist in the 18th century, but he also had a passion for painting imagined landscapes. The exhibition ?Gainsborough?s Landscapes: Themes and Variations? at the Holburne Museum give a marvellously rich overview of the artist?s work.

Although the career of Barry Flanagan began thrillingly enough, it gradually went off the boil and Sarah Kent was left feeling disappointed in her art review of ?Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982? at Tate Britain. Flanagan began working as a true exploratory sensualist, as he made fun, inventive works using a variety of different materials and processes. He began to rely on mass-produced works though, which had none of the probing and investigative energy that once made him so radical and interesting.

With a feel-good factor about it, Pipilotti Rist?s exhibition ?Eyeball Massage? brings us back to the London galleries at the Hayward Gallery. Various video projections can be seen in the exhibition including graphic close-ups of the female body and a woman behaving like an animal ? as well as a chandelier made of white knickers. It lacked the desired impact however in this permissive setting, which didn?t have the presence of any particular strict constraints to kick against.

Josh Spero was left feeling unmoved by the exhibition ?Frank Stella: Connections? at Haunch of Venison, which showcased Stella?s acclaimed works of Abstract Expressionism. The artist is undeniably asking all the right questions about what art can do and what it can represent in his ground-breaking experiments with planes, depth, colour fields, angles and three-dimensional painting. The gradual development and creation of just two major works is focused on, but the questions being asked were purely academic and the human element was entirely missing.

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