October 2026

Trois Crayons Magazine, October 2026

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Picasso – Bacon with Michael Peppiatt

In this episode of the Albertina’s podcast Long Ears, Felix von Boehm joins art historian and curator Michael Peppiatt to discuss Francis Bacon’s lifelong fascination with Pablo Picasso. Drawing on his thirty-year friendship with Bacon, Peppiatt explores how Picasso inspired the artist to radically reshape the human figure. The conversation reveals the desire, vulnerability, and surprising warmth behind Bacon’s intensely visceral art, taking the exhibition PICASSO – BACON as their starting point

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“What is Drawing?” with Tom Richards

Tom Richards, Director of the Florence Academy of Art, gives an artist’s view of what makes a drawing in this 2022 lecture. Through frequent reference to historical drawings, from Leonardo to Sargent, the talk provides an overview of the terms, materials, functions, techniques and formats frequently encountered in the Old Master drawings field.

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‘Drawing after the Antique at the British Museum, 1809–1817: “Free” Art Education and the Advent of the Liberal State’ by Martin Myrone

Writing for British Art Studies (April 2017), Martin Myrone examines the British Museum’s opening of the Townley Gallery to art students from 1808. Based on an analysis of the 1809–17 student attendance register, presented alongside a full transcription and directory, Myrone argues that while this access was framed as a victory for liberal public education, it ultimately served to further entrench the middle-class dominance of art training.