Alexander Adams
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Tomorrow I will be travelling to Poland for the opening of my new exhibition "Ruin to Redemption" at the Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese. This is a huge milestone for me, as it is my major show since I dedicated myself to my art career three years ago. The road to this point
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I cannot think of any image that has more completely vindicated all our predictions. This is the face that will launch a renaissance of cultural resistance and creativity.
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Pleased to share that Amy and I got married this week.
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The winner of the annual Turner Prize, the leading contemporary art prize in Great Britain, has been announced as Jesse Darling. What won was worthless. That is the point. You are supposed to despise it. It is a chance for elite radicals to humiliate you and your ideals of
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"Ruins in Snow", oil on canvas, 2014, painted in Berlin
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Really pleased that I can finally announce the launch of my new art website. Although it is same address as the old website, with the help of
@FerroEgo
and one of his contacts, it is completely new. With books, prints, illustrations, archival photographs and (most importantly)
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"The New Impressionists" or "How to Start a Dissident Art Movement" is a short essay on the principles that allow art movements to succeed. How should we conduct a dissident art movement? Read my thoughts for free here:
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@PrisonPlanet
hits the target again....
The Turner Prize was yet again won by someone who chucked a bunch of detritus on the floor and imbued it with every tedious cliché of "the message" imaginable.
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Three original linocuts by me launched today. Gabriele d'Annunzio, Julius Evola and Knut Hamsun available on two types of paper. Each signed and numbered, editions of 50 each only. Available exclusively through Imperium Press.
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Charleston Atheneum Press released the following statement about the fate of the Civil War Memorial at Arlington: "National We will lose the 109 year old Confederate Reconciliation Memorial this week without a legal injunction. Demolition will begin December 18 and take four
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@Grizzlegutweed1
When I researched my book I found out that decolonisation sentiment had led to campaigns of iconoclasm of statues of Italians (especially Columbus) and Spanish explorers/administrators before summer 2020. The BLM riots simply enabled and heightened attacks. Many targets were
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Last year I published "Abolish the Arts Council". People have asked me about the Arts Council issuing a statement requesting funding recipients refrain from overtly political statements. Here is my view.
ACE is not genuinely interested in neutrality. If you doubt that, put in an
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@alessabocchi
True art transcends politics to tackle perennial issues. True artists show truths incompatible with ideology. Dissident artists need not do anything other than make art that is true in order to be expelled from the establishment before having their art later co-opted by it.
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Excited about my new project with Imperium Press. We will be issuing a series of limited-run linocut prints of reactionary thinkers. Only 50 of each available, signed by the artist. No reprints. First three are de Maistre, Carlyle and Junger. Visit:
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Delighted to announce that my new book has just been published by Imperium Press. "Blood, Soil, Paint" examines the links between Romanticism, nationalism, race and nationhood.
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Carel Willink (1900-1983) was a brilliant Magic Realist painter. He is not much known outside of his native Netherlands. In my new article (linked below) I explore what is remarkable about his painting and explain how dissenting artists can learn from him. (1/4)
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Delighted to share my new article for IM-1776 on the links between risk-taking, gambling, radical art and reactionary/conservative personality types:
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"Washington, DC – A federal lawsuit was filed today in a Washington DC District Court to block removal and/or demolition of the Confederate "Reconciliation Memorial” in Arlington National Cemetery.
The suit alleges numerous claims of overreach by the Department of Defense... 1/3
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First photographs of the new book, paperback edition, including colour illustrations.
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The new book "Blood, Soil, Paint" includes images of paintings by me (including this). I discuss how German architects in the 1930s came up with the idea of architecture as designed to be grand ruins, drawing from Romantic ideas of the picturesque.
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CALL TO ACTION. Please like and retweet.
THE JACKDAW publishes articles, reviews, polemic, artist statements, news, investigative journalism, humour, reader letters, reader art, mainly concerning British art (contemporary, modernist, traditional, historical). (1/5)
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Happy birthday, J.M.W. Turner, born 23 April 1775, English painter.
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One of my favourite maternities, by Picasso, drawn in 1905, posted for Mother's Day.
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Wishing a merry Christmas to all of you. I hope you have a peaceful and happy holiday.
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In the latest part of my series for Halloween the Art of Horror, I look at the art of Alfred Kubin. In "Epidemic", Kubin portrays death in the figure of a giant skeleton introducing pestilence to a snowbound winter village. He used a manual ink spray technique. 1/4
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Michael Sandle, The Drummer, 1985, bronze. In a new article I discuss the troubling genius of Michael Sandle and what his career means for the next generation of monumental sculptors. Read free:
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In my new (free) article I outline what is needed for an art movement. Looking forward to the feedback on this.
@FendeVilliers
@FerroEgo
@Art_Deano
@giantgio
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In my new article I suggest how Polish painter Beksinski's temperament is revealed in his paintings and how this may align with the tragic/constrained vision of humanity. Read it for free here.
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Pleased to share my recent television interview on the state of the public arts in the UK.
"We should be unashamed to protect & promote high culture. I think some of the leaders of our historical museums have lost faith in classical culture."
@AdamsArtist
📺PREMIERE tomorrow 8pm NTD Sky ch.185,
@Channelbox
ch.271,
@LeeAlanHall
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Signing the new linocut prints of Wyndham Lewis in preparation for delivery to Imperium Press. This is my favourite of the new set.
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For Amy on Valentine's Day, with love. "Portrait of the Artist's Wife on her Wedding Day", pencil on paper. Preparation for a new group of paintings.
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Please retweet: Support THE JACKDAW, the UK’s leading independent fine arts newsletter, 6 issues per year. It publishes news, investigative journalism, opinion pieces, reviews of books and exhibitions, satire, exhibition listings, obituaries, letters, artist statements. (1/4)
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Now that Fischer has been deposed from the British Museum, it is time for the director of the National Gallery, Gabriel Finaldi, to go also.
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The Exhibition (including art by me and others) opens to the public in London on 4 July. Visit the website to get advance details and offers.
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What do you get for Christmas for the reactionary or conservative in your life who already has everything? You couldn't do better than these beautiful handcrafted original artist's prints of Annunzio, Junger and Evola. (1/3)
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Published today! Three new linocut prints of H.P. Lovecraft, Konstantin Leontiev and Gaetano Mosca. 1/5
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Excellent chat. Dixon really gets what AA is on about and has clearly absorbed the same lessons so many of us have.
My appearance on Nick Dixon's Current Thing podcast is out here:
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Here is the process of how a linocut is made - or at least how I made mine. To start a source is either selected or composed from imagination. The first stage is a thumbnail sketch in a sketchbook just describing light and shade. (1/5)
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Publication: Alexander Adams, "Vermeer", Prestel, April 2024, 112pp, 50 col. illus., available now in English and in German. It looks very handsome and it's great to see the final product after months of work.
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Remember that The Exhibition (Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street, London, N1) is open for two more days only, closing on Sunday afternoon. Saturday is going to be very busy. Catch it while you can!
@FendeVilliers
@MatthewTheStoat
@FerroEgo
@Art_Deano
@Columba_1
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This painting (oil on canvas board) was snapped up by a British collector in the first 24 hours of my website opening. It is now dispatched and heading to its new home.
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Hanging the exhibition now. Looks fantastic! Opens to the public tomorrow. More information in website linked.
@FerroEgo
@Columba_1
@FendeVilliers
@Art_Deano
The Exhibition (including art by me and others) opens to the public in London on 4 July. Visit the website to get advance details and offers.
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I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas and wish you all a healthy and peaceful New Year. Special thanks to everyone who has supported my work through becoming a paid subscriber, bought a print or just followed me on social media. It has been a wonderful year for me and
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“The latter stages in the decay of an art form are very interesting and worth study because they are peculiarly applicable to the state of poetry at the present day. They resemble the latter stages in the decay of religion when the spirit has gone and there is a meaningless
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For anyone who missed it, I joined Academic Agent and Mike from Imperium Press for a video discussion about the politics of vanguard Modernism in art, music and literature. Watch it here:
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First review of "Prophets of Doom" is live. Become a paid subscriber to read it now. An additional review by me will appear in
@bournbrookmag
very soon so be sure to follow them.
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I've seen your cigar and cocktail posting and none can match this, simple as.
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New livestream about my recent book "Blood, Soil, Paint" due tomorrow (Thursday). Check my tweets for a link tomorrow.
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Trees in Snow (c. 2018), oil on canvas, 12" x 16"/30.5 x 40.5 cm. One of the dramatic and planar (flat) paintings in the series. Recession of the woods only indicated by a few patches of sky at the top and a handful of distant trunks in the bottom left. New on my website today:
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New drawing from this week - pencil on paper, 13 x 27 cm.
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Happy birthday to Gabriele d'Annunzio, born 12 March 1863, Italian writer, aristocrat and soldier.
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Pleased to receive copies of my new book "Dali", from Prestel. 112pp, 50 col. illus., French fold covers. German-language edition also available. Available now at shops and websites for $14.95/£9.99.
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Stanislaw Wyspianski's stained 1900 glass window celebrates Polish king Casimir the Great - raised from the dead and ready to fight to free his kingdom.
@FerroEgo
@MatthewTheStoat
@FendeVilliers
We need you to make designs that resurrect an English hero in undead form!
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Get ready for part 3 of a livestream discussion on the art of Francis Bacon. Join
@iohndee
and
@OGRolandRat
at 3 pm BST today.
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For those angered and concerned about the censorship of Roald Dahl (
@OGRolandRat
,
@RadicalLib
,
@iohndee
,
@cowpill
), you may be interested to read my 2016 article on the massive posthumous censorship/rewriting of poet Charles Bukowski:
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Last year we lost the illustrator Russ Nicholson, someone whose art inspired me and many young boys in the 1980s and 1990s. In my new piece I pay tribute to an artist who hit his peak illustrating the Fighting Fantasy series.
#fightingfantasy
@SJGames
@ian_livingstone
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untitled, oil on linen, 2000, 16" x 16", painted in London
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Received my hardbacks of "Blood, Soil, Paint" today. Available now. View and order at
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"Man on Balcony", (c. 2010), oil on coarse linen, 16" x 12". Another defaced painting. This was a small test for a larger painting made at the same time.
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My new limited edition, linocut print of H.P. Lovecraft will be launched on Monday, through Imperium Press. Details on Monday, 1 January.
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Speaking Man with Spectacles, ink wash on paper, Dec. 2009, 10 x 8.5 cm, painted in Berlin
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@FendeVilliers
The best response to the propaganda of the arts establishment today is to produce true art that addresses vital eternal issues of love, desire, death, suffering and beauty. It would set aside trivialities and overwhelm the viewer with the vigour and clarity of its insights.
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I had a preview yesterday of a wonderful Turner exhibition opening tomorrow at the Laing Gallery, Newcastle. It's an incredible display. If you are in the region well worth travelling to see "Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia". A unique chance to see "The Fighting Temeraire"
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"It's not repetition; it's discipline." That was Mark E. Smith on The Fall's uncompromising sound. Never truer than on "Eat Y'self Fitter". The drumming on this is brutal, captured in all its ferocity by BBC engineers in 1983. When he played it for the first time on his show DJ
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Get ready for
@iohndee
and myself team up for the definitive stream on Francis Bacon. Part 1 live at 15.30 Wednesday on the Academic Agent YouTube channel. Will tweet links in advance. Follow Mr Dee here for a selection of paintings.
Francis Bacon (1909–92) - Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Æschylus - 1981 - oil paint on linen - each panel: 78" x 56" (198 x 147.5 cm) - Private Collection
Enlarge for detail
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My long review of "The Prophets of Doom" is published in the print version of Bournbrook Magazine, August issue. Only a few issues remaining so order today via
@bournbrookmag
! A good time to start your subscription.
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A chance to hear me speak at a small event in London, 24 January, discussing the political climate for the arts and my pamphlet "Abolish the Arts Council". Buy copies of that and my other books on the night. Book soon, £5-7
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Two installation views of my solo exhibition in Berlin, September 2012, all new work at the time. Often museum settings can be a bit sterile and I loved seeing the work on the walls in an environment that was more sympathetic.
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My simple charcoal outlines of figures have been age-restricted and suppressed by Twitter. I've noticed this has been happening to other figure images I've posted and as a result it will be difficult to post serious art on Twitter. I understand that safeguards need to be put in
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Wishing you all a Happy Easter.
The painting below is at the Antwerp fine art museum and is by Paul Delvaux. (Crucifixion, 1957, oil on canvas, 270 x 200 cm) In it, Christ alone is flesh, depicted in the style of the Flemish Primitives, everyone else are skeletons, suggesting the
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First review of Prophets of Doom drops in the next 24 hours. Sign up as a paid subscriber of my Substack to read it as soon as it is published.
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In the studio. New prints to be launched on Tuesday 2 April.
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A book cover by me you may have missed: Chad Weidner's book about William Burroughs and ecology, published in 2016. Original watercolour and final book cover.
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Delighted to contribute. See you all on Monday.
Deepest Lore this week will be on the misconception that modern art has always been leftwing with
@AdamsArtist
and
@rex_sacrorum_ip
Cigar Stream will be Evola on Solar-Masculine / Lunar-Feminine part 2 with
@Sargon_of_Akkad
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In the run up to my review of "Prophets of Doom" (which features Carlyle) read my review of Carlyle's "Latter-Day Pamphlets" for free here:
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I am pleased to announce the publication of my monograph "Magritte", Prestel, 112pp, fully illus., £10, available for order worldwide.
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This article covers Anselm Kiefer's use of imagery, ideas and figures used by the German Romantics in the C19th but now all but forbidden in the post-war period. It comes from my new book "Blood, Soil, Paint" from Imperium Press. Read the extract here:
NEW: "Anselm Kiefer's art – freighted with evocations of German ancestors and national myths – meditates on themes of blood and soil. And any evocations of such concepts inevitably confront the post-war world with powerful emotions..." —
@AdamsArtist
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In my new article, I discuss the pitfalls of modelling oneself too closely on artists of the past and why there is no such thing as a living Old Master. Read for free here:
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In advance of our Francis Bacon stream (
@iohndee
) you can read my article on a new publication discussing Bacon and the Egyptians, Richard Hamilton, Mervyn Peake and other topics. Read for free here:
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Sunderland lustreware mug with ceramic frog, English, from the Crimean War. It has a poem about England on the outside. Sold at auction.
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"We detect a reluctance of modern authors to address ancient peoples’ attitudes towards authority, kingship, religion, empire, war, death, slavery, suffering, social structures, women and education; these are not described honestly and directly by modern historians." (1/4)
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In light of
@OGRolandRat
's recent arguments against the idea of diversity being inevitable and one direction, take a look at the demographics of Tbilisi, where Georgians went from being 24.2% of the capital's population in 1876 to being 57.5% by 1970. It was 89.9% in 2014.
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Proud to take part in my first London show in over a decade, this time with my artist friends. Make sure you follow us here for updates. Hope to see you at The Exhibition!
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Now is the perfect time to read (or re-read) Knut Hamsun's masterpiece "Growth of the Soil". The novel describes the life of Isak, pioneer of the far north, who tames the wilderness then faces the consequences of civilisation. This edition has an introduction by me. Purchase
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Pencil and white chalk on Ingres paper, 2018, frontispiece in my book "After/Apres Francis Bacon", available for purchase here:
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Half of these prints sold in the first two weeks. If you'd like a copy, don't delay any longer.
Signing "The Men of 1914", the large linocut print, one of only 10 copies. These (and the individual prints) will be shipped this month.
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Great to receive copies of "Growth of the Soil", which includes an introduction by me. Pick up your copy from Imperium Press.
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Had a great time talking to
@Babygravy9
on his channel's podcast In The Raw. Episode 21, out now. We discuss The Exhibition held in London in the summer, arts funding, T.E. Hulme and lots more.
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untitled, 2019, oil on canvas board, 8" x 6", painted in Bristol
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