The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post capture the dismal dawn of the colonial age
The 17th-century Dutch artist was the first professional painter to record the New World – and the view was far…
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The 17th-century Dutch artist was the first professional painter to record the New World – and the view was far…
ByThe mid-century artist rejected London glamour for her husband RS Thomas and the hillsides of their beloved Wales.
ByA new exhibition presents the artist as a highly complex man whose unsettling work had innumerable narrative interpretations.
ByHis 1905 painting Red Sunset on the Dnieper shows a Ukrainian village illuminated, something which today carries inescapably dark connotations.
ByHe showed succeeding generations not just how art should be made but how an artist should live.
ByEugène Delacroix’s great painting changed Western art and recorded an atrocity that still haunts the island today.
ByThe leading postwar industrial photographer created images that are romanticised, unreal and full of respect for hard labour.
ByThe artist neither chased fame nor tired of his small patch of England.
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