Were the artists after impressionism really that radical?

Were the artists after impressionism really that radical?

Europe experienced a time of culural upheaval between 1886 and the start of the First World War in 1914. It was a period in which many European artists ⁠— most famously, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh — broke with established tradition, rejecting direct transcription...

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Piet Mondrian a pioneering modernist?

Piet Mondrian a pioneering modernist?

An abstract artist whose work was rooted in the language of landscape, Mondrian pared back his canvases to convey only essential forms — a process which, he said, was ‘not the creation of another reality, but the true vision of reality’Mondrian’s first job after...

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Here’s to glorious Venice

Here’s to glorious Venice

This Italian city's distinct architecture with its water canals has captivated artist for centuries.The intricate network of canals ensures that water is a constant presence throughout the city. Magnifying its atmosphere, light can be seen shining between buildings or...

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Loose yourself in the mindscapes of MC Escher

Loose yourself in the mindscapes of MC Escher

Recognition came late in life for MC Escher. Only in the 1960s, did he become a countercultural icon, feted by the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Mick Jagger. Escher had an intuitive understanding of mathematics, which proved crucial to his success as an artist. Beyond...

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Warhol’s Marilyn

Warhol’s Marilyn

On 9 May, Christie’s  20th/21st Century sale week in New York concluded with auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie’s Global President, hammering down Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for a record $195,040,000, making it the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever...

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Consider how you interpret colour

Consider how you interpret colour

Georges Seurat (1859–1891), Poseuses (1886-8)Poseuse debout, de face (1886)All painting is a form of optical illusion, but pointillism, the technique Seurat pioneered in the 1880s, aims to deconstruct the act of seeing itself. He was keenly interested in how the eye...

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Franz Marc

Franz Marc

Roter Stier, 1912 Franz Marc. His career was short. Sadly ended by the Great War. He was at the centre of the Expressionist group of artists known as Der Blaue Reiter. On the 20th anniversary of Franz Marc’s death, his friend and co-conspirator Wassily Kandinsky...

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Does art transport us? Where to?

Does art transport us? Where to?

An old Chinese legend tells of the painter Wu Daozi (680-c760), who learned to paint so vividly that he was finally able to step inside his work and vanish into the landscape. Magical though it sounds, this legend iterates the common intuition that artworks are more...

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Revealing Leonardo da Vinci’s secrets

Revealing Leonardo da Vinci’s secrets

New research into one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works has revealed fresh information about an abandoned composition hidden under the painting. Experts have found initial designs for the angel and infant Christ beneath the surface of the Virgin of the Rocks....

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A word on blue

A word on blue

“Colors are not possessions; they are the intimate revelations of an energy field… light waves with mathematically precise lengths… deep, resonant mysteries with boundless subjectivity… Our lives, when we pay attention to light, compel us to empathy with color.”“Where...

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A Girl (part one)

A Girl (part one)

This is the first part of our demonstration. We had three sessions. The topic under discussion is how to access the right side of the brain. The theory is that people are either left-brained or right-brained, meaning that one side of their brain is dominant. If you're...

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A Girl (part two)

A Girl (part two)

This is the second part of our tutorial on how to access and train the right side of your brain. How was this classic dichotomy born and how much truth is there to it? This concept of brain specialization was researched by a surgeon Joseph Bogen; Robert Ornstein,...

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A Girl (part three)

A Girl (part three)

This is the third, and last part of our tutorial on how to access and train the right side of your brain. Having personally witnessed my students over many years I have concluded that creativity resides in both sides of the brain. The link to the right brain is...

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Why Art?

Why Art?

"For the past 25 years, I endured living under solitary confinement with the mental and emotional stress of facing death." On May 5 1993, in Pine Bluff Arkansas, Reams and his friend, Alford Goodwin, robbed a drive-through ATM with a single .32 pistol. Alford, in a...

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Rosehip

Rosehip

Sometimes we just feel like using more than the conventional! See how I created a background using spray paint!You are welcome to use my illustration to start with.

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Playful Kitten

A Girl in Acrylic

Please don't eat the daisies

A Girl (part three)

A Girl (part two)

A Girl (part one)

Painting the space around

Rosehip

Sleeping beagles

Roses in red ink

Colourful mugs

Dressing up

Drawing from the right side of the brain

Umbrella

Landscaping in soft pastel

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