Review of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant exhibition at Tate Britain

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In a review for The Guardian, Jonathan Jones criticizes the new Tate Britain exhibition featuring the works of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. He argues that attempting to present these two as pioneers of British art is fruitless. Jones contends that while their personal lives, sexualities, and access to Picasso and Cézanne paintings in their home were fascinating, their paintings lack depth and artistic passion. The critic notes that while other Bloomsbury Group members like John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf were geniuses in their respective fields, the visual art of the group is insufficient to hold a viewer's attention for long. Jones finds only the final sections of the exhibition, featuring Duncan Grant's uninhibited erotic drawings, to possess genuine artistic power, describing the rest of the show as akin to costume dramas.