Patrick Wright visits Encounters, an exhibition featuring new work created in response to old master paintings from the National Gallery in London, and considers the continuing impact of the great tradition of European art. The new work by 24 big-name artists from Europe and North
America, including Hockney, Bourgeois,
Freud and Kitaj, will be hung alongside the old in a major new exhibition, which explores the way in which artists engage with the past.