Teeming with prostitutes - from lowly street walkers offering a ' threepenny upright' to high-class courtesans retained by dukes - Georgian London was a city built on the sex trade.
Remember that a painting – before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote – is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. Maurice Denis &…
Any photograph which is created in direct explanation to the creative vision of the photographer can be termed as a fine art photograph. This genre of photography stands in very stark contrast to photojournalism, there
In my next two blogs I am going to look at the lives and works of two English painters, the father, Thomas Benjamin Kennington and his son, Eric. Today I am going to concentrate and examine some …
It’s one of the most original self-portraits ever painted. And, yes, it’s a lot of yellow.
Nom Kinnear King is an artist from Norfolk, England. She studied Fine Art Print at Norwich School of Art and Design.
My Daily Art Display today features an extremely moving picture which has the very long title Never Morning Wore to Evening but Some Heart Did Break. The painting was completed by the English arti…
My featured artist today is looked upon as one of the greatest portrait painters of her time. Of her, the American painter, William Merritt Chase said: “…[she is] the greatest woman painter t…
Many of Thaulow’s best known Norwegian scenes are from Åsgårdstrand, a town 100 km south of Oslo. It had become a significant centre for artists and painters from the 1880’s. The town …
Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the Swiss Post-Internet artist about the ideas and process behind her uncanny portraits that have won the following of Hans Ulrich Obrist and other top curators.
The Mona Lisa and da Vinci's Last Supper get a hilarious update as Ariel and The Simpsons are Photoshopped in as the subjects.
In eighteenth century France, Rococo was the popular style of art. Painters such as Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher had given art lovers a highly ornate and decorative f…
Часть 2:"Как хорошо все начиналось..." Sehnsucht (Träumerei) ca.1900 Die Erwartung (Träume II) 1912 Longing, 1907;Frühling, 1897 Verkündigung 1901 Verkündigung an die Hirten 1902 Träume 1911 Tanzende Kinder 1913 Melusine Tritychon ca.1910 *** Abendsonne im Moor,1903 Wintermärchen (Die Heiligen Drei…
German photographer Vincent Peters will be showing a new series of star portraits at the Leica Gallery Frankfurt from January 20, 2017.
Kai Fine Art is an art website, shows painting and illustration works all over the world.
There is something very intriguing about “–isms” when talking about genres in art. We are all aware of them common ones such as realism, impressionism, cubism, etc. In fact I have an art history …
Генрих Фогелер-немецкий художник и философ, представитель немецкого югендстиля (модернизма). Родился в Бремене 12 декабря 1872 года. В 1890—1895 годах посещал дюссельдорфскую Академию художеств. В 1895 году обосновался в деревне Ворпсведе (близ Бремена). Позднее (в 1918) с Ф. Макензеном, О.…
The darkest days of the year were seen by many Victorians as a time when the dead would have a particularly strong access to the living. Soon a battle between mediums and scientists would begin.
Explore the latest works and collections from acclaimed artist Toni Hamel.
A master of light and Romantic Impressionism, his lyrical compositions and exceptional execution have earned him the highest accolades. Numerous national and international awards include the Gold Medal at the World Cultural Convention in Algiers, the American National Award of Excellence and the President's Award of Oil Painters of America.
“I never get humans on camera, so this was interesting. As you may notice, he was not camera-shy, to say the least.”
Gallery: This retrospective, starting this week at Tate Modern, brings together the inscrutable, funny, and astonishingly wide-ranging pop art created by Sigmar Polke across nearly 50 years of work
Ernst Haeckel's intention was to make the natural forms of elusive organisms accessible to artists, and supply them with a new visual vocabulary of protists, mollusks, trilobites, siphonophores, fungi, and echinoderms. In his first book are jellyfish that look like flowers, protists that resemble Fabergé eggs, presented like crown jewels on black velvet, the seeming cosmic vastness of the images belying their actual, microscopic size. Haeckel’s name has not endured as well as the words that he coined—among them, phylum, ecology, and stem cell. But artists took heed. Art Nouveau is crowded with the natural arabesques and patterns that seduced Haeckel.
The exhibition, called Celts: Art and Identity, will begin in London in September and continue in Edinburgh in March 2016.
In 1932, by the time Gluck was thirty-seven years old, life could not have been better. She lived in Bolton House in Hampstead village with its newly-built large studio and was busy putting togethe…
