Inspirations.  

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

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

Richard Estes´ New York

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cecil Touchon

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

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...

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...

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...

Cats in Art

According to historians, the relationship of cats with humans could date back more than 9,000 years....

Dürer - Observer of Nature

Master print-maker, draftsman, and the Renaissance man from Germany, Albrecht Dürer was a keen obse...

Jason Martin

Jason Martin was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1970. He went to Chelsea School of Art and made...

20th Century Silver Tea and Coffee Sets

Today the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig holds some 300 silver objects. Silver colle...

Gustav Klimt: Landscapes

Georg Flegel: Still Life Painter

Georg Flegel (1566 – 23 March 1638, Frankfurt-am-Main) was a German painter. He is today best know...

"... Cheese! We´ll go somewhere where there´s cheese!"

Pictures of cheese painted by old and new masters.

Avedon & His Friends

In addition to straightforward fashion shoots, which secured the financial basis of his practice, Av...

The World is an Apple.

French post-impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), "the painter of apples" synthesized formal pr...

An Art Collector in His Art Chamber

2014 is the anniversary year of four-hundredth birthday of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662) of H...

Nils Dardel: Modern Dandy

Nowadays, Sweden loves Nils Dardel’s (1888–1943) oeuvre. But that was not always the case. He ha...

Venice of America

The Venice recreation area opened on July 4, 1905. Unfortunately for Abbot Kinney, the developer of ...

Ilya Chashnik Илья Чашник

Ilya Chashnik was one of the foremost disciples of Kazimir Malevich. He was born into a humble Jewis...

Summer by Arcimboldo

Call him creative, whimsical, or deranged. Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a stained-glass ...

Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey

This painting tells the story of a poem about how Cupid complains to his mother, Venus (the goddess ...

Parmigianino: Schiava Turca

The exquisite portrait of an unknown woman called the Schiava Turca ("Turkish slave") is an icon of...

Prince of the streets

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) is one of the most influential photographers of his generation. During t...

Wall painting project for a Cowork Space that links with environmental concerns

All my mural projects have in common the portuguese identity and connection to the history of the pl...

The house was just a cage, when embroidering, the portuguese woman wove the webs of silence - Lisbon, 2014

Mural : Urban Art Collaboration with EBANO Collective and GAU - Galeria de Arte Urbana Wall painting...

The legend of the Penha de França Lizard - Lisbon, 2012.

Mural / Urban Art - collaboration with GAU - Galeria de Arte Urbana Wall Painting that tells the sto...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Master of Color

"I can’t work rationally; I’m too much a colour man (Farbenmensch) for that." said Ernst Ludwig...

In pintura veritas

Yago Hortal was born 1983 in Barcelona. He lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the University o...

Henrique Olivera, Brazil

Painter, sculptor and installation artist Henrique Olivera lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. He...

San Marco by Canaletto

With the Palazzo di San Marco on the right and the Palazzo Ducale on the left, this painting depict...

I Feel Fine

When the Beatles came to Paris in 1964 to perform a series of concerts at l’Olympia, they chose th...

Geoff Diego Litherland

Geoff Diego Litherland is a Mexican born artist based in Nottingham. He spent his early years in Bol...

Stefano Zagaglia

Stefano Zagaglia's figurative, almost hyper-realistic wildlife portraits require on average a month...

Rembrandt Bugatti

Rembrant Bugatti (1884-1916), son of furniture designer Carlo Bugatti and brother of automotive desi...

Egg Dance

An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal...

Dummies and Dolls

Laurie Simmons works with dummies and dolls. She was born on Long Island, New York, in 1949. She rec...

The Fight between Carnival and Lent

Easter is coming near. A time to say good-bye to Lent and say hello to springtime.

Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde, one of the most prominent German Expressionists, found his style influenced by Scandinav...

A God in every Stone

Paintings by Toronto-based artist Carly Waito. Carly was born in Manitouwadge in 1981 and is a gradu...

orbs

Orbs by Robert Standish. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian painter, designer and pioneer of abstract art. Born in Kiev, he moved...

Preraphaelites

a collection

Packaging

Paintings by Yrjö Edelmann. Yrjö started to draw at an early age, initially in comic strip magazi...