Andrew Rodgers

Work as guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and Milton Keynes Gallery. Specialise in Stanley Spencer-much overlooked, original artist.

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@ahistoryinart I studied for my Masters degree in the history of art at 46 Gordon Square!

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@ahistoryinart I can’t understand why she’s not better known, she’s a world class artist.

My treat for my 60th birthday was to visit her house and gallery in Unter den Linden in Berlin

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@OldSheffield I was born on Heeley Bottom, it’s good to know this.

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@OperaCreep I had one of the protest when I was giving a ten minute talk about Equivalent Eight, I sweat she didn’t take a breath for five minutes.

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@arthistorynews Art bollocks alert!

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Here is one of them.

The "Will of the People" was used to suppress democracy after the Brexit Referendum.

Lord Sumption giving the Reith Lectures addressed the Brexiters' claim that Brexit is the will of the people. He said - "This is the authentic language of totalitarianism. It is the lowest point to which a political community can sink short of actual violence."

This is not about percentages. It doesn't matter what percentage voted for Brexit. It is about a referendum being used to attack the fundamental democratic right to oppose, and to promote the totalitarian division of society into the people and its enemies, the subversives and saboteurs.

In the period following the referendum the so-called "Will of the People" was used to create a climate of intimidation that silenced almost all political & media opponents of Brexit. During that period Britain was not functioning as a democracy, and we are still living with its effects, pro-European politicians are still cowed by the Brexit "Will of the People".

In a democracy there is government and opposition, majority and minority, competing parties and dissenting voices. There is no totalitarian unity of the "Will of the People" which makes all opponents into the enemies of the people. Where the right to oppose ends, democracy dies, and that is exactly exactly why dictators like Hitler loved referendums.

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@ahistoryinart @torquay_de_mayo I didn’t know that! The art world is full of these odd pairings, my favourite is that Pauline Boty influenced Warhol, though the details are a little sketchy.

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Brilliant! I’ll use it next time I talk about A Bigger Splash, hopefully that’s ok with Ben.

[Political Cartoon @Cartoon4sale]

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #DavidHockneyRIP #DavidHockney @officialinews – political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6

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@ahistoryinart @Tate Apparently it really annoyed the critics who thought it was pretentious.

It also relates to Walter Patel’s idea that art should aspire to the condition of music, that is we should see it without relating it to the world around us. Pater published the idea in 1873.

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@ahistoryinart I’ll try, one of the paintings isn’t very good, the other, A Vision of God in his Heaven, is one of the best things she did. It’s in the catalogue that accompanied the Kenwood show, towards the end.

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@ahistoryinart I’d no idea that Bomberg painted still life’s, I’ll definately explore this.

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@arthistorynews @Simon_Nixon At least we’re not the USA, they really swallowed the exceptional pill.

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@OperaCreep My feelings too.

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@psychojography When I first started guiding there in 2000 there was a strong smell of oil, sadly that’s now faded.

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@arthistorynews @ZiaYusufUK As childish as Trump.

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@OperaCreep Thank God for that, one of very few artists who really annoyed me.

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@ahistoryinart Branch Hill pond was a reservoir built to service the growing population of London, it dried up in the 1880s.

Nowadays Canary Wharf dominates the view.

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@BorisJohnson My sister died alone without her family while Johnson celebrated illegally,can you imagine the hatred we feel for him?

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@arthistorynews @michaelgove @mattwarman @jtworr @SuellaBraverman Michael Gove,the man who famously said, we don’t need experts,people are sick of experts. Michael, I’ll be performing your brain surgery today, I’m no expert but I’ve watched a YouTube video.