The history of art is, as you probably know or can guess, quite broad. So massive in fact that my little brain gets overwhelmed by the scope and I can’t imagine writing about anything, at
Continue ReadingThere’s more to art than painting and sculpture! Part 1: Alfred Hitchcock
Art is such a broad term, and includes all types of mediums – yet all I’ve talked about here is paintings and sculpture! This is the beginning of a series where I’ll delve a little
Continue ReadingWhat Charles Baudelaire thought of French art
Every old master has had his own modernity Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a renowned poet, philosopher, and art critic. He died a virgin – from syphilis that reached his brain?? The rumours of his demise
Continue ReadingKey concepts in Surrealism; focussing on René Magritte
It is difficult to reduce Surrealism down to a few keywords, because while the movement had general themes of revolution, the uncanny, and new ways of both creating and viewing art, they were simply a
Continue ReadingJohn Everett Millais
John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was an English painter who, along with William Holman-Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rosetti (aka coolest trio since the Holy Trinity), founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. These guys were extremely dissatisfied
Continue ReadingThe context of patronage in Donatello’s ‘Judith and Holofernes’
The word Renaissance is literally translated to “rebirth”, and the Italians used it to describe the rediscovering of the idea that the value of man, and the beauty of the world, was to be celebrated
Continue ReadingHieronymus Bosch – The Haywain and The Garden of Earthly Delights vs the rest of Holland
Jereon van Aken, more commonly known as Hieronymus Bosch (1460-1516), was a Northern European painter who is known for his fantastically creative paintings. Thought by early historians to be a heretic due to his unconventional
Continue ReadingWhat IS sculpture? Modernity answers
In the late 19th and early 20th Century, sculpture became an important avenue for artist’s exploration as they turned the seemingly simple question, ‘what is sculpture?’, into a complicated discourse. Historically, sculpture was at the
Continue ReadingA peek into Dutch still life
Still life is one of my favourite genres of painting, and no one did it better than the Dutch! I do plan to do a deeper dive into the subject, but here’s a brief overview
Continue ReadingWhy is the Mona Lisa so famous?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519): Renaissance master painter, sculptor, humanist, scientist, inventor, genius. A greatly admired figure in his own time and the proceeding 500 years, he is known for striving for perfection yet always falling
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