Adam Wattam | Art UK

Adam Wattam teaches academic skills at the University of Essex. He obtained a Masters in Art History and Theory in 2019, writing his dissertation on the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. He has written four novels, two of which are based on his experiences in Poland and Algeria, where he lived while working for the British Council.

Bruegel's 'The Adoration of the Kings': not a picture-perfect Nativity
Adam Wattam
The modernist transformation of Alfred Wolmark: from Jewish East End to sunlit France
Adam Wattam
Natalia Goncharova's embrace of everything
Adam Wattam
Icons, tears and perspective: zooming in on Bruegel, Picasso and Crivelli
Adam Wattam
Early Netherlandish painting: deep feeling and great truth of character
Adam Wattam
Moonlight and northern towns: the enduring appeal of John Atkinson Grimshaw
Adam Wattam
Intimate moments of salvation: Annunciation scenes through the ages
Adam Wattam
Gustave Courbet's realism: knowledge made visible
Adam Wattam
Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained
Adam Wattam
The torments of James Ensor
Adam Wattam
Double take: continuous narrative in Renaissance art
Adam Wattam
Saint Joseph in art: from innuendo to veneration
Adam Wattam
Simone Martini's 'Christ Discovered in the Temple': a 700-year-old gilded wonder
Adam Wattam
From nowhere: Jack B. Yeats
Adam Wattam
Diego Velázquez: the captured moment
Adam Wattam
How to look at Mark Rothko
Adam Wattam
Chagall in the countryside: 'The Poet Reclining'
Adam Wattam
Francisco Goya: painting power and its abuse
Adam Wattam
Darkness amidst the light: Sorolla's drinkers
Adam Wattam
All dressed up with nowhere to go: love and angst in the work of Watteau
Adam Wattam

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