Art History

Address Book: Los Angeles

Friday December 21st, 2018Museums behind the scenes

Our new series – Address Book, is here to take you all around the art world, one week at a time. For our second installment, we’re escaping the cold winter of Paris for some Californian[…]

Address Book: Paris

Tuesday December 11th, 2018Friday December 14th, 2018Art History

Our new series – Address Book, will take you all around the art world, one week at a time. To start us off, we’re exploring The big French five that characterize L’Hexagone’s exquisite City of[…]

Consumption, Creativity, and Cans of Soup: How Andy Warhol Created an Icon

Friday November 23rd, 2018Friday November 23rd, 2018A history of genres and artistic movements

American art in the early 1960s, with Abstract Expressionism enjoying post-war popularity, was not exactly the sort of arena where one would expect to find 32 canvas paintings of soup cans and acknowledge them as[…]

The Art of Politics

Friday November 9th, 2018Art History

With polarizing presidents, environmental tensions and news programs that alert us to daily controversies, it’s almost impossible to escape politics in 2018. And with the American midterm elections having been held this week, ideas about[…]

The Dark Arts

Friday November 2nd, 2018A history of genres and artistic movements

With Halloween festivities in full throttle and the weather getting colder, the days shorter and the nights darker, life has been feeling rather spooky. This week, we’re looking back at some gloomy, supernatural and spine-tinglingly[…]

Abstract Art

Friday August 10th, 2018Tuesday August 28th, 2018A history of genres and artistic movements

Abstract Art is art that is non-representational and does not intend to portray an accurate representation of visual reality. Artists who work with abstraction often employ colour, form and mark-making in order to achieve the[…]

Acrylic Painting

Thursday August 9th, 2018Tuesday August 28th, 2018Artistic techniques

Acrylic painting is a relatively young medium, as it emerged in the mid-20th century. It was first made commercially available in the 1960s, and while it does not have the same long history as[…]

Contemporary Art

Thursday August 9th, 2018Tuesday August 28th, 2018A history of genres and artistic movements

Contemporary art resists easy definition, due to the incredible variety of art it encompasses. It is broadly defined as the art of today, created during the late 20th and early 21st century. It is characterised[…]

Graffiti

Thursday August 9th, 2018Wednesday August 29th, 2018Discovering famous artists

Graffiti art is when text and images are drawn or spray painted onto walls and surfaces, usually in urban, public places and normally without permission. The notion of drawing words and images on to walls[…]

Landscape Painting

Thursday August 9th, 2018Tuesday August 28th, 2018A history of genres and artistic movements

Landscape painting is a highly popular genre in Western art, with a long and established tradition. Landscapes typically portray a variety of natural scenes, including mountains, rivers, valleys, forests, fields, and coasts. This definition was[…]