Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time.
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Georgian artists depicted the scenes they witnessed with creative license, that influenced Great Britain’s self-image as an imperial power.
The two artists have very different, yet curiously complimentary, responses to nature.
Social change made leisure gardens accessible to all – not just kings and aristocrats – at the same time as ‘the great horticultural movement’.
This exhibition is not about British, or even English landscapes, but about how a broad range of British artists responded to the landscapes they chose to depict.
With little revelation, it’s an indictment of the film’s inability to discover dramatic life in these potentially rich scenes.
The curators of this new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge have achieved a complex yet complementary arrangement.
For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother or maternal figure.
A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief that drawing and design – not painting – were the wellspring of all great art.
After British television was established in 1926, it went on to foster a productively rich relationship with the arts, but coverage has seriously declined this century.
Choosing a new colour scheme is a psychological issue, not just an aesthetic one. Here’s what the evidence shows.
Art and the body are often linked in Kahlo’s life, which was short and traumatic.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
Instead of treating creative work as a legitimate field, US labor policy, copyright law and the tax code have failed to offer artists stability or protection.
With a recovery rate below 10%, most stolen works are never found. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to monetize.
The artist’s 1942 painting ‘Birthday’ will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s upcoming ‘Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100’ exhibition.
In 2023, the French luxury giant LVMH participated in the acquisition of an Impressionist painting by the Musée d’Orsay, a transaction combining patronage, public relations and tax optimisation.
Different paint recipes work for different uses. Two art conservators explain how analyzing paints from the past can reveal how they were made – and how best to preserve them.
This Scottish exhibition is an ethereal, hypnotic showcase of artists who share a commitment to pursuing a more compassionate way of looking and being in a place.
Gray’s artworks give us insights into the intensely personal psyche of a creative genius.
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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