‘Most paintings should have been burnt’: Augustus John’s granddaughter attacks artist’s later works

The Guardian— Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interviewThe granddaughter of Augustus John, Britain’s most famous and successful artist of the early 20th century, has delivered a damning critique of his later works. Rebecca John, the leading authority on the artist, says in her first interview for two decades that “most should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every...

TheBlaze—Remember the young surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack? 21 years later she’s fighting to protect women’s sports. A promising young surfer, then 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton’s world was turned upside down when she lost her arm in a shark attack. On “Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey,” Bethany detailed how her family’s faith in God helped her through these troubling times: “My dad worked really hard — like two to three jobs at a time, so we had a really simple childhood. But they gave me so much. They gave me so much time, and they gave me my faith in God. And so, when I lost my arm, it was almost like...

Scroll.in—‘Echoing around, etched in the edifice’: This artist’s poetry is inspired by her paintings. An excerpt from ‘Unmasked: Reflections in Brush and Ink’, by Nandita Chaudhuri.

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