2017

Learning About Art. #1 books

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There is no doubt that it is immensely enjoyable to walk into one of the world’s great art museums and to just wander around looking at the works. However if […]

The British Royal Art Collection needs returning to the public

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Monarchs are very good at collecting art, they can expropriate vast sums from the public to pay for it, they have huge homes to hang it in, they are well […]

Two Renaissance pictures

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The renaissance saw art develop from the style of the International Gothic, with lots of gold leaf, uniform facial expressions, 2D representation and hierarchical subject size, to the High Renaissance […]

Ludolf Liberts

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Ludolf Liberts (April 3, 1895 – March 11, 1959) was a Latvian artists whose works can be seen in the Latvian National Museum of Art and which sometimes crop up […]

Felice Brancacci

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Lord Clark of Civilisation said: “The grandest of all testimonies to the dignity of man is by Masaccio, in the series of frescoes he painted in the Church of the […]

Sophia Sartor

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Sophia Sartor is a character in the video game Assassin’s Creed, she is based on Albrecht Durer’s Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman from 1505. This small painting, 325 X […]

Holloway College

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Thomas Holloway was a fabulously wealthy Victorian entrepreneur who became one of the richest men in Britain from his patent medicine business. Having no offsprings to leave his money to […]

What is art?

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There doesn’t exist a single compelling definition of what the word ART actually means, because the word is totally abstract and depends on the user, their education, their cultural heritage, […]

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Nice video that shows how very rich people work and how the modern art market is an artificial construct. With more than a million works of art stored as investments […]

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This is an interesting perspective and not far off what a lot of people (the majority?) think. Our popular press pour scorn on the Turner Prize every year. Does it […]