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   J.M.W. Turner's Colour Trials 1791

   Shirana Shahbazi, Raphael Montañez Ortíz

   In celebration of the reopening of Tate Britain, Tate Etc. invited a selection of artists from around the world to choose a favoured work from a...
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   Inside the eye of the beholder

   Michael F. Marmor

   In 1930, when Munch was 66 years old, an intraocular haemorrhage in his right eye affected his sight. For several months, with methodical precision...
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   Colour me British

   Klaus Kertess, Jerry Brotton, Vidya Gastaldon, David Attenborough, Jennifer Higgie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Matsui Fuyuko, Deanna Petherbridge, David Musgrave

   Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to the first decade of...
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   Lure of the wild

   Robert Macfarlane

   The artist Francis Towne's near abstract eighteenth-century watercolours of Swiss glaciers were to inspire Eric Ravilious more than a century later...
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   Unfinished? Repulsive? Or the work of a prophet?

   Sam Smiles

   Turner's late pictures were dismissed as works of 'senile decreptitude' and questioned even by his most devoted disciple, John Ruskin. Sam Smiles...
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   A Rye view

   Desmond Corcoran

   He had six paintings in London’s International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936, but was never formally a surrealist. His work has always been hard to...
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   High fidelity

   Carter Ratcliff

   Malcolm Morley was an early practitioner of superrealist painting. He then won the first Turner Prize in 1984 after having moved to a looser style...
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   MicroTate 5

   Sista Pratesi, Tomma Abts, Gerald Davies, Marcel Dzama

   Sista Pratesi, Tomma Abts, Gerald Davies and Marcel Dzama reflect on a work in the Tate collection