Inspirations.  

Tensegrity

If there is some sort of thread that travels through the life of Raimond Puts (1937 - 2012) then it ...

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...

The fairytales of H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen was born 1805 in Odense, Denmark as the son of a poor shoemaker. He undertoo...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Foam wood table

The wood has been planed down to its constituent wood particles and has been recast. As the wood sta...

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...

Bart de Baets

Graphic designer Bart de Baets graduated in 2003 from the Gerrit Rietveld academy. Bart teaches gra...

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

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

Gordon Walters: Koru

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

Light installations

Studio Drift was founded in 2006 by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn. Lonneke Gordijn studied at Desi...

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

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

Hermetic city

Hans Wilschut’s work originates from the urban world. His photographs are lyric reflections on the...

Light is a Vector

Lighting designer Arnout Meijer was born in Rotterdam in 1988. He studied design at Design Academy E...

Richard Estes´ New York

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

ingredients

Pierre Gagnaire conceived two playfully named dishes dedicated to the conceptual artist––“Nave...

The Fans

The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one ...

Herb Aach: Color Theory

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

Now whip it / into shape / shape it up / get straight / go forward / move ahead

Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 ...

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...

Hello Kitty Culture

The iconic Hello Kitty turned forty in 2014. Sanrio and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)...

Enrico Castellani: Superficie

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

Futurist Aristocracy

Axis No.3, England 1935; De Stijl No.1, Netherlands 1917; Futurist Aristocracy, USA No.1, 1923; Futu...

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano

Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...

A Happy and Abundant New Year

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

Sigrid Sandstrom

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

Wyne Veen

Wyne Veen is a Dutch artist working mostly in the photographic medium. Veen graduated from the Royal...

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...

Flow Table

A student at the Design Academy in Eindhoven from 2005 to 2010, Dirk van der Kooij uses a robot arm ...

Handmade Industrials by Rutger de Regt & Marlies van Putten

HandMade Industrials Founders Rutger de Regt and Marlies van Putten met during their studies at the ...

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...

Christian Kocx

Christian Kocx studied at Design Academy Eindhoven where he graduated in 2006. His products were pre...

Hans van Vrouwerf: Huiselijk

Disbelief is what comes to mind when you see this. Did they really leave everything? Diseased withou...

Hans van Vrouwerf: Industrieel

A collection of decay on an industrial level. A place where asbestos, pealing paint and loneliness g...

Scape

Scape by Oato: The Scape vases are shaped like little hills that transform flat surfaces into a land...

Stuck

Stuck chair by Oato: We dissected an archetypical chair and rearranged the elements to make it look ...

Cecil Touchon

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

Patterns

Hansje van Halem graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2003 and works as an independent gra...

New York New York

Remko Heemskerk is Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

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...

The Return of the Herd

It is that time again - summer has finally ended, and winter is coming. This 16th century painting b...

Chair Art

Chairs by artists: Ai Weiwei, Joseph Beuys, Julius Deutschbauer, Tone Fink, Heinz Frank, Gelitin, Ma...

FULL-BLOWN

Fieneke Ploeger’s FULL-BLOWN collection explores the concept of hyperreality in relation to the bo...

Future Fashion by Martijn Van Strien

"contra.dictions","Threads for Cockaigne" and "Dystopian Brutalist Outerwear" by Martijn Van Strien....

Geometric Abstraction

Artist Gary Andrew Clarke lives and works in Manchester, UK.

Indolence in Art

Indolence is the avoidance of activity. "I like the word ´indolence´. It makes my laziness seem cl...

Culinary design

Objects by Maarten Baptist and Jinhyun Jeon. Maarten Baptist made a BA at Design Academy Eindhoven i...

William Turner

The exhibition "Late Turner – Painting Set Free" surveys the achievements of JMW Turner (1775–18...

Hans Christiansen´s Jugendstil

"I take my work as an artist as general as possible: I want to paint a portrait but can also design ...

Venice without Tourists

La serenissima

Pop Art 1960s

“Popular, mass produced, expendable, cheap, witty, sexy, playful, conspicuous, seductive” Richar...

The Harvesters

This painting is one in a series of six works that depict different times of the year. As in many of...

Baroque Co-creation: Jan Brueghel I and Rubens

During the seventieth century, two of the most famous masters of baroque art - Jan Brueghel the Elde...