The Frenchman Honoré Daumier turned his wit into art, leaving behind fascinating drawings and canvases full of savage satire and social criticism. Through his incredible talent as…
The strength that comes with painting from life is one of the most striking features of Vicent Molina Contreras' artwork. A painterly practice through which he lays bare both physical forms and…
On the lid of the harpsichord in La lección de música, the Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer left an inscription in Latin: “Music is the companion of joy and a balm for sorrow”. This attachment to music…
The captivating exoticism of Japanese culture, its elegance, mystery and sensuality all come together in Phil Couture's painting. The Canadian artist draws on his knowledge of other cultures to…
In the straitlaced Victorian art world of the mid 19th century, realism stood as the only path open to artists. In this context, three young students at the Royal Academy…
The female body has been one of the main sources of inspiration that many painters have drunk from. As captivating as they are defiant, female nudes have flirted with…
The painter Javier Cabo offers a plastic version of reality through a figurative art that he pushes to the edge of abstraction. A road he travels in order to experiment with space, the…
At the height of Romanticism, the German painter Friedrich revolutionised the landscape genre with an approach in which the objective, faithful depiction of the elements of nature was subordinated to achieving a reflection…