‘If you have one art experience a month, your life is extended by ten years.’ Art Critic Estelle Lovatt explores how artists through the ages have captured the spirit of Easter.
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Estelle Lovatt, AP Associated Press, Bansky’s Jack Vettriano at auction
A treasured Banksy painting could raise up $6.3 million at auction
A rare Banksy painting with a sharp environmental message is set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London. Crude Oil (Vettriano), a reworking of Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler, is expected to fetch up to $6.3 million at auction. (AP Video: Mustakim Hasnath)Published 5:31 PM BST, February 26, 2025
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Jack Vettriano
Estelle Lovatt, Talk TV / Radio, David Bull
That huge Life Drawing row…”nude models should wear clothes…”
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Estelle Lovatt, GB News with Michael Portillo: Jack Vettriano
Estelle Lovatt and the worst portraits | The Standard
Social media users were quick to mock the artwork, with one calling it “the stuff of nightmares” and another bluntly saying that “it looks nothing like him”.
Even experts weighed in, with art critic Estelle Lovatt telling Sky News: “If you think about it historically, a public statue was there to immortalise, show off and loudly boast of the achievements and accomplishments of the person.
“If it doesn’t really bear a resemblance to the person, it’s quite difficult to relate to it.
“I just thought the Roman emperors wouldn’t have put up with it, with this sort of standard. It’s imposing because of its size and its fantastical because of its size, but it lacks any aesthetic creativity.”
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