Alexander Adams

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Trees in Snow with Pond (2018), oil on canvas, 12" x 16". This painting has found a new home, a private collection in Wales with a bespoke frame. Always a kick to see a painting find its place.

@ElliottVerney Thank you. I think you'll especially like the recent paintings when they are displayed at the end of the year. :-)

@AdamsArtist so direct and intense and hypnotic; beautiful work again

@PaqWilly Yes. And it's a relief to disperse work. You hear horror stories about studio fires destroying whole oeuvres!

@AdamsArtist Congrats on the sale, Alexander. Always a great feeling as an artist.

There are movements but they are to do with content, meaning, group identity and so on, not mainly aesthetics. Artists are wary of movements based on aesthetics: we've had aesthetics hijacked and repurposed by subversive actors. We've seen flags subverted into symbols of those hostile to the people. Same with art movements.

It’s very odd that despite all the abundance of this century, it still lacks an aesthetic, no major non political and purely artistic movement, no "new avant garde," despite all the complains about individualism, conformity and "community" have never been so overwhelmingly present, weird. Maybe some movements are taking shape and I don’t see them yet.

"Girl", May 2024, hand-drawn lithograph, 76 x 56 cm

If you painted a sign of the Turk's Head as it was originally envisaged you'd be arrested for a hate crime. Also the craft has died out.

Thanks to those who turned out Saturday for my talk. Great atmosphere and thoughtful questions. Meeting in real life shows to venues and organisers that there is organic demand for non-state culture. If you have a chance to support these events, try to do so.

Was a pleasure meeting and listening to @AdamsArtist yesterday. An artist with depth of art knowledge and skill. The art world has changed substantially in the last 50 years and sometimes feels like a lost cause, yet Alexander Adams remains a relentless advocate of craft, vision and spirit. Art work: Boy (2004)

It's a bank holiday weekend and the weather is set fair. Use a little of it to get out into the countryside to see and hear @AdamsArtist at the Rugby Art Gallery & Museum tomorrow afternoon 23 May at 1.30pm. ragm.co.uk/unveiled-the-r…

@moveincircles All vernissages kind of are

@AdamsArtist Are they ever fancy dress tho

There are always exhibition openings to attend....

@moveincircles It's on the list... You'll be first to know.

@AdamsArtist Dávila when

Born this day 1898, Julius Evola, Italian author, philosopher, artist and mountaineer.

@verdur_in It does, unironically, feel like a supermarket.

Maybe they'll finally figure out how to build some walls and take the Giacometti off the ceiling.

© Alan Bouti

@ElliottVerney What do you think of the frame? FB preferred wide gilded frames and glazing. He was upset that the Guggenheim framed a triptych in one frame.

Alexander Verney-Elliott visting The Pope in Rome.

The Art Academy has announced: "Sadly, we need to tell you that Art Academy’s Trustees have concluded that the organisation is no longer financially viable and will begin an orderly wind-down. On Tuesday 12 May, a document was lodged with the court and the Academy formally entered into Administration... Teaching and scheduled activity is continuing as normal through to the end of June."

LAST CHANCE: Filled with cultural ennui? Terminally online? Contribute to real life culture by booking one of the remaining tickets to see me speak at Rugby Museum, Sat. 23 May, 1.30-3.00 pm. tinyurl.com/uabtpe6y