Providing safe routes for asylum seekers should be the focus of the UK government if it is to stop small boat crossings, according to the artist Es Devlin , who is unveiling 50 portraits of refugees that she wants to challenge misconceptions. The project, which draws on her research into the plight of refugees across the world and of those attempting to get to Britain, is called Congregation and is a collaboration with the UN high commissioner for refugees. Read the full article
Van Gogh decided when he was working in Arles that his true art hero was Delacroix. Vincent had been liberated by the impressionists and their younger rivals in Paris – he knew Gauguin, Bernard and Signac among others – to use colour with radical freedom. But he wrote most passionately in his letters about the earlier 19th-century painter Delacroix whose works, including Women of Algiers and Liberty Leading the People are charged with bold, enflaming colour. Here, the poetic intensity of Delacroix goes with the modern religious fervour Van Gogh also respected - he made a copy of Delacroix’s Pietà in 1889. This crucifixion might be a baroque painting until you notice that smoky, atmospheric sky and the cadaverous paleness of Christ in this bohemian vision of the abandoned Son of God. • National Gallery, London
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