Mark Gould describes his lively approach to color as “color without rules.” Enjoy an online-exclusive gallery of his work in acrylic.

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Andrew Wyeth, with Battleground on the easel, 1981. "Andrew Wyeth had just finished his superb tempera, “Battleground,” and asked me to photograph it in his studio. I took an 8 x 10 view camera, lights, and all the necessary paraphernalia and made the reproduction images. But after the lights were off and I was getting ready to leave, Andy came by the studio with his dog, Nell, and I asked if I could make a portrait or two. After a lifetime of getting people to pose for him, Andy was a great sitter….as unselfconscious as can be. And Nell stood, almost asleep on her feet, until the large shutter clicked, making her move her head just a bit. ...." (bron: Ralston Gallery Blog, foto: Peter Ralston) Andrew Wyeth: Battleground, 1981. The Andrew Wyeth Studio. At left the converted 1875 schoolhouse; center, the living wing added in the 1930s; and at right, the mid-1950s kitchen. The Andrew Wyeth studio. The main room of the Andrew Wyeth studio, a converted schoolhouse. Andrew Wyeth’s studio, with a reproduction of Raccoon (1958) on the easel and reproduction drawings taped to the wall. (foto's: Carlos Alejandro) "A converted schoolhouse, this is the primary studio of Andrew Wyeth, in continual use from 1940 until shortly before the artist’s death in January, 2009. The studio is the center of Wyeth’s Pennsylvania world, the rich microcosm that inspired and nourished his art. In 1940, the young Andrew Wyeth and his new wife Betsy moved into a converted schoolhouse, just down the lane from where Andrew had grown up. The Wyeths would live – and Andrew would work – in this building for the next twenty years. In the early 1960s, the Wyeths acquired a new home, but the old schoolhouse remained Wyeth’s major Pennsylvania studio where he painted for another five decades. The schoolhouse had already been used by Wyeth’s sister, Henriette, and brother-in-law Peter Hurd, as both studio and home. Wyeth’s sons, Jamie and Nicholas, remember a life integrated with art—visiting their father in the studio room, or having guests come to look at newly completed paintings that Andrew often hung in the kitchen. While Wyeth ventured out to select and sketch various motifs in the countryside, his major temperas were always painted in the studio. The painting studio is presented almost as it appeared shortly before Wyeth’s death. Watercolor and tempera material give visitors a sense of the artist’s craft. The building still houses Wyeth’s art library and his extensive collections of military miniatures, costumes, and paintings by Howard Pyle. The high-ceilinged, sparsely-furnished former schoolrooms reflect Wyeth’s austere aesthetic and earth-toned palette. The tall, paned windows create details on the landscape that speak to the way Wyeth constructed some of his compositions; they also infuse the interior spaces with natural light that was so important to the artist. During Wyeth’s lifetime, the studio was a very personal space, and the artist protected the privacy he felt necessary to his work. The artist posted a sign on the door that says: “I am working so please do not disturb.” Although the sign remains, we are now welcome to visit this very special place." (bron: Historic Artists' Homes & Studios) > Andrew Wyeth

These three intriguing photographs have no real relationship with one another, except that each image reveals a little bit of the hidden history of art. Read on for more about these remarkable imag…

Alex Beck is an award-winning painter and illustrator who maintains a studio in Richmond, Virginia. Known for his uncommonly versatile work in oil, acrylic, and gouache, he’s had his images appear in S Moda, The Paris Exchange, Whurk Magazine, Arlington Magazine, Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual #19, Creative Quarterly, and showcased at the both the LA & NY Society of Illustrators. Previous to his fine art career, Beck’s work experience includes working as a concept/production artist for the Oscar/Emmy-winning animation house, Moonbot Studios and production work for Myachi Entertainment, The Design Center, and Tervis Tumbler. Beck was formally trained at Ringling College of Art and Design. He also expanded his training at the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, The Masters Class at Amherst, Massachusetts, and The Art League of Alexandria, Virginia where he has previously been a teacher.

Jaehyo Lee, Arte Sella, International Meetings Art Nature, Trentino, Italy, 2015 http://www.leeart.name/ http://www.artesella.it/

Felice Casorati was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara he showed an early interest in music and art. To please his parents he studied law at the University of Padua until 1906, but his ambition to be a painter was confirmed in 1907 when a painting of his was shown in the Venice Biennale. The works he produced in the early years of his career are naturalistic in style, but after 1910 the influence of the symbolists and particularly of Gustav Klimt turned him toward a more visionary approach. In 1915 he had a solo exhibition at the Rome Secession III, where he showed several paintings and the first of his sculptures. His military service in World War I began that year and lasted until his discharge in 1917. In 1918, "intrigued by the decadent atmosphere of Turin with its sinister views", he settled there with his mother and two sisters. His works of the next decade typify, in their emphasis on geometry and formal clarity, the "return to order" then prevalent in the arts as a reaction to the war. Although many critics found his work cold, cerebral, and academic, Casorati achieved international recognition as a leading figure in this movement. Often working in tempera, Casorati drew inspiration from his study of Renaissance masters, especially Piero della Francesca, as in his 1922 portrait entitled Silvana Cenni. This symmetrical composition of a seated woman in a white dress is perhaps the best-known of the artist's works. In it, the careful rendering of volumes results paradoxically in a sense of unreality which is characteristic of Casorati's art. In 1925, Rafaello Giolli summarized the disconcerting aspects of Casorati's art—"The volumes have no weight in them, and the colors no body. Everything is fictitious: even the living lack all nervous vitality. The sun seems to be the moon ... nothing is fixed or definite"—and argued that these very qualities give his work its originality, and connect him to the metaphysical painters. Casorati himself wrote, in 1931: "In taking up, against me, the old polemic of classicism and romanticism, people rail against intellectualized and scholastic order, accuse my art of being insincere, and willfully academic—in a word, of being neoclassical. ... since my art is born, so to speak, from within, and never has its source in changing "impressions", it is quite natural that ... static forms, and not the fluid images of passion, should be reflected in my works". Briefly arrested in 1923 for his involvement with an anti-Fascist group, Casorati subsequently avoided antagonizing the regime. Beginning in 1923, he opened his studio to the young art students of Turin. One of his famous students was the Italian painter Enrico Accatino. After 1930 the severity of Casorati's earlier style softened somewhat and his palette brightened. He continued to exhibit widely, winning many awards, including the First Prize at the Venice Biennale of 1938. He was also involved in stage design. He died in Turin in 1963.

A beuatiful structure of balcony of one havaly in Lahore City

Du 7 mars au 7 juin 2014 L’exposition Carl Larsson, l’imagier de la Suède au Petit Palais présente pour la première fois en France la grande figure de l’art suédois des années 1900. Près d’une centaine d’œuvres — aquarelles, peintures, estampes et...

Joe Mortell’s familiar yet otherworldly work evokes a longing for places that don’t exist

Carl Larsson was a prolific Swedish artist whose paintings of his own home interiors have inspired homeowners like me for over 100 years. Carl and his wife Karin were given a small house by Karin’s father in 1888 in Sundborn, named Lilla Hyttnäs (little furnace). Is this a fairy tale, or what? Carl and Karin decorated and furnished this […]

One of Britain’s most popular artists through much of the 19th century, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema became something of a joke in the 20th.

Keith Mallett was born in Pennsylvania, and received his formal art training at the Art Students League, and Hunter College in New York City. He has worked as a freelance artist and for fifteen years was the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers. Keith’s work is currently published by Canadian Art Prints, one of the largest fine art publishers in the world.

One hundred years ago, Vienna was at the epicentre of a world on the brink of war. Bethany Bell reflects on a century of changes in the Austrian capital.

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House of Stories: Paula Rego, a new museum dedicated to the artist is opening in Cascais near Lisbon

Every so often you catch a glimpse of a once in a lifetime photo that makes you think differently about a specific moment in history. From bygone structures to vintage ads, and stars in the prime of their lives, the photos collected here provide new insight into the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Peter Hone Collection of plaster casts and more from his amazing Notting Hill home took place today at Christie's in London.

Image 10 of 39 from gallery of Nikolay Polissky Creates Towering, Handcrafted Structures Across Russia. Beaubourg (2013). Image © Alexey Lukin

Given that her complete catalogue is composed almost entirely of work she produced as a student, the posthumous critical esteem for American photographer Francesca Woodman is astonishing. Unlike music or math, where precocious displays of talent are not uncommon, photography tends not to have prodigies. Woodman, who committed suicide in 1981 at age 22, is considered a rare exception. That she has achieved such status is all the more remarkable considering only a quarter of the approximately 800 images she produced—many of them self-portraits—have ever been seen by the public.

L'artista inglese Susan Ryder è nata nel 1944. Ha studiato presso la Scuola di Pittura Shaw a Londra. Fin dall'età di 18 anni ha esposto regolarmente alla Royal Academy Summer Exhibition e in molte altre mostre misti e di gruppo. Anche se ben nota per i suoi ritratti e interni, Susan Ryder ha ricevuto il suo primo premio come pittore di paesaggi . Molti i premi conseguiti per i suoi ritratti e per gli interni, con commissioni a dipingere belle case di campagna, sia nel Regno Unito che altrove. www.susanryder.co.uk

on november 20 dolls' houses by well known designers, architects and artists will be auctioned for charity.

Korean artist Kimsooja splits her time between New York, Paris and Seoul, and has exhibited her work worldwide. This fantastic installation was done in the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid's Retiro Park. The greenhouse was transformed into a luminous, prismatic wonderland that the artist calls "To Breathe - A Mirror Woman." To create the installation, translucent diffraction film was placed over the greenhouse glass, and mirrors were applied to the floor. There was a sound component to the installation as we...