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The Symbolist Magic of Gustave Moreau
Through scenes of legendary heroes, biblical figures, and mythical beings, Moreau created a visionary world that profoundly influenced later Symbolist and modern artists.
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The art of the 20th Century: A century of innovation and change
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new.
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The Pop Art Tradition – Celebrating the Ordinary in Extraordinary ways
Naturally, the book discusses the major contributors to the Pop/Mass-Culture Art tradition right down to the present, in the process including a number of artists who have never previously been connected with so-called ‘Pop Art’ but who have always been primarily interested in mass-culture, and who are therefore partially or totally connected with Pop/Mass-Culture Art.
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Aestheticism: Where Art and Beauty Converge
William Hogarth wrote his Analysis of Beauty in 1753, during the Age of Enlightenment. Through this captivating text, he tends to define the notion of beauty in painting and states that it is linked, per se, to the use of the serpentine lines in pictorial compositions.
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The Pop Art Tradition: Where Art, Advertising, and Society Collide
The Pop Art Tradition explores the intersection of art, advertising, and society, showcasing how these elements influence and shape each other in a culturally significant way.
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Brotherhood of Inspiration: Unraveling the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetics
In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle favoured realism and biblical themes over the academicism of the time.
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100th Anniversary of The Passing of Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)
The next Sunday, 3rd December 2019, marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest artists in the world, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. We miss him so much!
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Is Cubism Just Art in Cubes?
Exhibition: Le Cubisme Date: 17 Oct 2018 to 25 Feb 2019 Venue: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris In 1907, one painting signalled the prelude to a change in painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. When Pablo Picasso first exhibited this bordello scene with five female figures, even the collector Sergei Shchukin and his friend Georges Braque considered the painting to be “a loss for French painting”. However, the significance of this new view of reality was not lost on Braque. In this work, Picasso crafted for the first time a clear and rational lens without any aesthetic allusions. Taking Cézanne’s analysis of shape further, Picasso fragmented the forms into small cubes. It was the task of…
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