How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)

This is as clear a piece of writing about the experience of looking at a great painting as I have ever read … Gayford seems to have seen everything and thought deeply about all of it´ Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'If you are someone who revels in the deliciousness of oil paintings, who looks at them and wants to eat them as if they were ice cream or something´, in Damien Hirst´s phrase, then Martin Gayford´s latest book will be a banquet' The Spectator 'Martin Gayford, long-serving critic and art historian, is a trusted insider and a favoured guest of the most celebrated talents in the UK and beyond. If anyone knows what makes them tick, it ought to be this latter-day Vasari … Stimulating and sumptuously illustrated' Financial Times 'From El Greco to Picasso, Martin Gayford´s How Painting Happens offers us an encyclopedic journey through art history' Daily Telegraph A remarkable painting can move the soul. So how does it come about? Martin Gayford brilliantly marks out the path from