Romanticism and landscape, two closely linked terms. On one hand, Romantic painting found in landscape a perfect genre for dreaming up other worlds, for fleeing a reality that offered little…
What can you expect from someone who lies about where and when they were born? At the very least it raises suspicion, but also intrigue. Such was the life and the artistic career of Tamara de…
As the saying goes, "beauty varies according to the eyes that look at it", and maybe it's right. So far we know that Monet was short-sighted and that this mattered more than any other factor in his…
“There's no point looking for any meaning in these artworks, the visual arts aren't rational, they're sensory, there isn't a shred of politics in them (…) There's an important element here, which is water…
If we were to draw up a list of the most representative paintings of the 20th century, leaving out Las señoritas de Avignon would be unthinkable. The painting Picasso made in 1907 didn't start circulating until…
Without getting into slights over gender or anything else, we've picked five, out of the many, painter couples who loved art together. Chances are everyone reading this will think of the names Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo…
“Come with me into the void”. That was Yves Klein's (1928 – 1962) title for the lyrics of a song used in his 1960 exhibition Pinturas antropométricas. The void, lightness, transparency, “that…
This April 23 is World Book Day and even though this year we won't be able to celebrate it by buying something at our favourite bookshop or at the stalls that fill our streets every year, we want to suggest…