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Painting is seen as a form of practice that—contrary to canonical accounts—in no way shies away ...

German Art since 1960

German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...

Microscopes of utopia

This are some of landscapes spaces of nowhere with spaces inside

Andy Warhol: Endangered Species

In 1983, Andy Warhol expressed his love for animals and his concern for the environment in a series ...

reversed silhouettes

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HOKUSAI X MANGA

Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...

Jewelry Design Art

Jewelry Art design pattern inspired from nonlinear dynamics. Drawings collection about fluid flows...

Universality of the Vortex-Sphere Archetype

The Universality of the Vortex-Sphere Archetype - Code nature sign language Following the entire pr...

Raymundo Colares

Raymundo Colares (1944 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais - 1986 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais) was a Bra...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

Impressionist Gardens

“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

German Painting after the 1960s

What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...

Forward Retreat

Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...

Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk

Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...

Jean Arp: Randomness

Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...

American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s

Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...

Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream

"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...

The Art of Writing. The Rebirth of the Ogatsu Inkstone

The inkstone industry of Ogatsu, in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture once accounted for 90% of the...

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy was born 1895 in Bácsborsód, Austria-Hungary. He attended Gymnasium in the ci...

Gordon Walters: Koru

"My work is an investigation of positive/negative relationships within a deliberately limited range ...

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

The nineteenth century was a time of upheavals. A wide variety of developments took place at the sam...

Voyager avec un crayon: Jacques de Loustal

À la fin des années 70, alors étudiant en architecture, il commence à publier des illustrations ...

Igort Tuveri

Igort Tuveri (Igort) was born in Sardinia in 1958. His first stories were published in the magazine ...

Richard Estes´ New York

"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...

Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva: Nature vs. Nurture

Collages by Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva, a Bulgarian born, Detroit based artist.

Master of Fantastic Illustration: Daniel Mróz

Daniel Mróz (1917-1993) was a Polish illustrator whose unique style influenced several generations ...

Herb Aach: Color Theory

Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...

The Bean King

A painting by Jacob Jordaens

Diego Velázquez

Baroque Master painter Velázquez, celebrated as the "painter of painters" by Édouard Manet, inspir...

Gianfranco Pardi

Born in Milan in 1933, Gianfranco Pardi started studying poetry and philosophy, dedicating himself t...

Enrico Castellani: Superficie

Enrico Castellani was born in Castelmassa, Rovigo, in 1930. He moved to Brussels in 1952 where he st...

A Happy and Abundant New Year

Flemish painter Pieter Aertsen was one of the first artists to paint "inverted still lifes," works i...

Emerging trends

penccil allows deep insights into what is happening in worldwide creative industries. We have select...

Sigrid Sandstrom

"Seeing allows us to navigate the world. Through perception we become oriented in space and time. Se...

William Glackens

Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...

Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 7, 1894. His father was the art editor of the Philadel...

Abstract

Jack Vanzet is a 23 year old art director, music producer and visual artist based in Melbourne, Aust...

Modern Masters at Albertina

Albertina in Vienna has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressio...

Ren Han 任瀚

Ren Han (1984 Tianjin, China) lives and works in Tianjin. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts Tianjin...

Masood Kamandy

Masood Kamandy (b. 1981 in Colorado) is a Los Angeles based artist. Masood received his MFA from the...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Speaker

Master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder would often use biblical themes to depict village life as he...

Firework Drawings

Rosemarie Fiore (born 1972, New York) lives and works in Bronx, NY. She studied at University of Vi...

Nagtzaam

Nagtzaam makes drawings. Using graphite and the occasional colored pencil, he works primarily in bla...

The farmer continued to plough

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a painting in oil on canvas long thought to be by Pieter Brue...

German Pop

Was there Pop Art in Germany? Pop, which began in Great Britain and the USA and was quickly establis...

Carmelo Baglivo: Architectural Collage

Carmelo Baglivo studied Architecture at "La Sapienza" University, Rome. He worked for Max Dudler in ...

Hugh Ferriss

Hugh Ferriss was trained as an architect at Washington University in his native St. Louis, Missouri....

Ray Johnson

"I happen in my work to use words. And perhaps it’s all incorrect that these be looked at in terms...

Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon, born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published...

Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo, a pioneer of constructive art, was born Naum Neemia Borisowitch Pevsner in Russia in 1890...

Eduardo Recife

Eduardo Recife lives and works in Brazil. "I´ve been drawing since I was little. At school I had no...

Sergio Mora

Sergio Mora was born in Barcelona in 1975 and studied at La Llotja. He lives and works in Barcelona....

Wataru Yamakami

Great Vitality

Great Vitality: Old work and leftover materials were renewed through ripping, cutting, painting, and...