How I got my art back
Article by T. Stonefield It was 1998. My husband was gone. My mother had died of leukemia that June.and I was trying to get my live back together. I had been back in the States…
The Five Essentials of Basic Painting
The things you need to know to make your paintings sing Article from T. Stonefield 1. Focal point – What do you want your views to look at first? The main goal of a artist…
The Misconceptions of Greek Sculpture
Article by Slater Smith When we think of Greek sculpture, we tend to have beautiful white statues made of marble run through our heads. The figures are realistic, full of movement, and idealized. The Venus…
Neolithical art
Article from Chris Crombé From hunters/gatherers to farmers/shepherds In the history of prehistoric times one makes distinction between the old and the new Stone Age. Both in the Paleolithic and the Neolithic age people made…
Palaeolithic Art
Article from Chris Crombé When did the history of art start? The simplest answer is: the moment people started to create art. It has been assumed for a long time that the earliest form of…
Disappearing Tempera
Article from Slater Smith Tempera painting was once the primary way of applying pigment on canvas, its only rival being fresco painting. Every Old Master made tempera from scratch in their workshop, along with the…
Karl Bryullov – Russian Romantic School Painter
Karl Bryullov – Album Russian Romantic School Painter Right-click and choose “Save Link As” to save this Album. Download Album » Review by Vladimir London Karl Bryullov was born on 12 December 1799, in St.…
Herstory of Art
Article from Chris Crombé Women and art Throughout the ages Women were barely recognized as artists. It was partly thanks to the research of the first (1860) and the second (1960) emancipation wave, that their…
Three (almost) Forgotten Artists
Article from Luca Molnar Edwin Long (1829-1891) Raphael Delorme (1885-1952) Alphonse Mucha, the painter (1860-1939)…
Study of an Oriental Head for “The Marriage at Cana” Gaetano Gandolfi
Article from Coco Depink Gaetano Gandolfi was the most talented member of a family of artists that dominated Bolognese painting in the second half of the eighteenth century. Early in his life he studied with…
