COBRA was an avant-garde art movement active in Europe from 1948 until 1951. Although the movement was short-lived, it was immensely influential and productive, and many of the artists involved continued to create work throughout the 20th Century. This post focuses on paintings by the movement’s artists from before and after ...
Image: Alex Barth Musicians thrive off life in the public eye. With no public attention, nobody would by their records (see Amy Winehouse's ever increasing album ...
Image: Olivander The humble pen may be mightier than the sword, but it is nevertheless taken for granted in today's modern world. But that wasn't always ...
Indian miniature painting is one of the world’s most impressive artistic disciplines. As the name suggests, it involves painting images onto implausibly tiny canvases, often ...
Image: Art Virtue When ink was a precious commodity, before the days of ready-mixed ink pots, it was preserved in solid sticks (inksticks), ready to be ...
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then these incredible images speak volumes. The photographs below catalogue some of the most influential moments of the ...
Image: Untitled A The three Luo Brothers were born in Nanning, in the southern Chinese region of Guanxi Zhuang, in the period after the country’s ...
Image: Joshua Davis In need of a little escapism? I thought so. Summer’s all but disappeared and winter’s fast approaching. Whether you’re slaving away at the ...
The Third Reich, Germany’s Nazi era, existed from 1933, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Worker's Party came to power, until 1945, when ...
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Takashi Murakami is a prolific Japanese artist who has worked across a wide range of media, from the traditional nihonga style and fine art painting, ...