How Mary Swanzy brought colour to cubism
Both a witness to and a participant in the birth of modernism, the Irish painter personified the experimental art of…
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Immerse yourself in the world of art with our captivating collection of articles, featuring artist profiles, art movements, exhibitions, and critical discussions that celebrate the creativity and inspiration of talented artists from various disciplines.
The rural fantasies of Helen Allingham
How the Victorian painter and illustrator excised the hard reality of country life and replaced it with poetry.
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The flickering landscapes of Alessandro Magnasco
The Italian painter used skittish brushwork to create mysterious scenes of religiosity and menace.
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The nostalgic American winters of Dale Nichols
For the Nebraskan painter, the soul of the nation lay in the Midwest of his boyhood.
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How Chiura Obata combined the traditions of Japanese and American art
The painter made a career that melded the oriental and occidental styles.
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The Hokusai of Sussex
Eric Slater was an unassuming man, but his Japanese art-inspired woodcut prints show his brilliance.
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Leon Dabo’s pictures of nothing
For the 20th century painter, landscapes were less real places than elusive moods.
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How Paul Sandby painted Britain as he saw it
The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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The mysterious and unsettling pictures of Paula Rego
A new retrospective at Tate Britain reveals the paradox at the heart of her art: here is a narrative artist…
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The conscientious painter
Percy Horton was born in 1897 and so reached conscriptable age in the middle of the First World War. He,…
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How the German painter Lovis Corinth found his many moods reflected in a Bavarian lake
Corinth’s national aspirations weren’t enough for the Nazis, however. In 1937, 12 years after his death, seven of his paintings…
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Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter’s final days
The modern artist, Bacon said, must “unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently”,…
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Atkinson Grimshaw’s glistening landscapes of Victorian prosperity
In the world of Atkinson Grimshaw it is always autumn or winter, always evening, and the rain has just passed…
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The greats outdoors: paradoxical painter Gustave Caillebotte
The artist who extolled the talent of his impressionist friends at the expense of his own.
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Beethoven’s political resonance
Beethoven was a musical revolutionary – but was he a political one, too?
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Bartolomé Bermejo: the pioneering painter of the Spanish Renaissance
Why the little-known artist of the Spanish Renaissance deserves wider recognition.
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Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust
Czapski survived his incarceration in a Soviet prison camp and went on to produce vivid paintings and prose. But his…
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Thomas Cole: the prophet-painter of America
Thomas Cole’s pictures revealed to his fellow citizens the majesty of their land while warning them of hubris.
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Beautiful grotesque: the “dark play” of Paula Rego
Rego’s latest fairy-tale visions give terror a face – but their deepest secrets remain hidden from view.
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Grayson Perry: The rise and fall of Default Man
How did the straight, white, middle-class Default Man take control of our society – and how can he be dethroned?
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