My favourite paintings from each major movement of art - a thread 🧵 1. Northern Renaissance: "The Garden of Earthly Delights", Hieronymus Bosch (c.1490-1510)
Italian artist Agostino Arrivabene uses antique painting techniques to create a foundation from which metamorphic figures emerge in moments of creation. The time-consuming labor of grinding pigments and layering paints is evident in the complex, heavily textural works. New worlds hide beneath and within cracks and crinkles as human-like figures manifest above ground and often out of water.
The archetypes series is a set of four paintings portraying five different archetypes: The Queen, The Food, The Prostitute, The Knight & Damsel. Each portrait was carefully designed to closely represent its designated archetype; meaning every decision, fro
„Die Schaukel“ gemalt 1767 von Jean Honoré Fragonard. Ein Sinnbild des Rokokos. Das Rokoko [franz.: Rocaille, ‚Muschelwerk‘], auch Spätbarock genannt, ist eine Weiterentwicklung der europäischen kunstgeschichtlichen Epoche des Barock in den…
As the Masters in the South got to grips with linear perspective, those of the Northern Renaissance explored the new medium of oil paints and their power in representing surface textures and the ef…
A few months back, I traveled to Praha in Czech Republic, and during my time there I visited the Gallery of Art Prague where they were exhibiting – amongst others – the paintings and drawings of Salvador Dali. He is one of my favourite artists, so I was glad to have a chance to view some of […]
The Giornea is a tabard-like overgown. In The Birth of Mary portrait (detail) this garment isn’t worn, but I really LIKE this garment, so I might make one anyways. I’m repeating some o…
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Henri Pierre Picou, The Dressing of the Favourite, (1857)
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As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them
How did one of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood come to paint this clothed Andromeda, waiting to drown in the Solway Firth?
Jacopo da Ponte, a Mannerist artist from the Renaissance period, born in 1510, Bassano del Grappa just north of Venice, became famous for his use of light and shade and the includsion of animals and every day objects within his works.
Rupert Sheldrake chooses his favourite painting for Country Life.
Eros Dans les rochers de la plage à Cartelet La chute de la sirène Danse des Naiades Le concert des sirènes Sirens Awaiting Their Prey Sainte Cécile Naiade et dauphin dans la vague Water Goddess La…
