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Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums

Beryl Cook, a self-taught artist whose playful paintings of ample-figured women were long dismissed by major institutions, is experiencing significant art-world rehabilitation through major exhibitions and public celebrations.

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'Rubens with jokes': UK exhibitions place Beryl Cook in the art historical canon

Beryl Cook's work is being reassessed through major Plymouth shows that place her in the Western art canon and recognize her LGBTQ-focused social documentation.

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Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM

Generally, you get two versions of England in art: it's either bucolic vistas, rolling hills, babbling brooks and gambolling sheep or it's downtrodden, browbeaten, grim poverty and misery. But Beryl Cook saw something else in all the drizzle and grey of this damp old country: she saw joy. The thing is, joy doesn't carry the same critical, conceptual heft in art circles as more serious subjects

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Radical and joyous': Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist

Beryl Cook created vibrant, compassionate paintings that documented working-class life, body positivity, and queer culture, asserting her significance as a chronicler of social change.

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Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums

'Rubens with jokes': UK exhibitions place Beryl Cook in the art historical canon

Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM

Radical and joyous': Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist

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