Inspirations.  

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...

Forward Retreat

Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...

Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk

Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...

Jean Arp: Randomness

Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...

American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s

Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...

Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream

"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...

The Art of Writing. The Rebirth of the Ogatsu Inkstone

The inkstone industry of Ogatsu, in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture once accounted for 90% of the...

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...

Gordon Walters: Koru

"My work is an investigation of positive/negative relationships within a deliberately limited range ...

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

The nineteenth century was a time of upheavals. A wide variety of developments took place at the sam...

Voyager avec un crayon: Jacques de Loustal

À la fin des années 70, alors étudiant en architecture, il commence à publier des illustrations ...

Igort Tuveri

Igort Tuveri (Igort) was born in Sardinia in 1958. His first stories were published in the magazine ...

Richard Estes´ New York

"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...

Master of Fantastic Illustration: Daniel Mróz

Daniel Mróz (1917-1993) was a Polish illustrator whose unique style influenced several generations ...

Herb Aach: Color Theory

Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...

The Bean King

A painting by Jacob Jordaens

Diego Velázquez

Baroque Master painter Velázquez, celebrated as the "painter of painters" by Édouard Manet, inspir...

Gianfranco Pardi

Born in Milan in 1933, Gianfranco Pardi started studying poetry and philosophy, dedicating himself t...

Enrico Castellani: Superficie

Enrico Castellani was born in Castelmassa, Rovigo, in 1930. He moved to Brussels in 1952 where he st...

A Happy and Abundant New Year

Flemish painter Pieter Aertsen was one of the first artists to paint "inverted still lifes," works i...

Emerging trends

penccil allows deep insights into what is happening in worldwide creative industries. We have select...

Sigrid Sandstrom

"Seeing allows us to navigate the world. Through perception we become oriented in space and time. Se...

William Glackens

Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...

Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 7, 1894. His father was the art editor of the Philadel...

Abstract

Jack Vanzet is a 23 year old art director, music producer and visual artist based in Melbourne, Aust...

Modern Masters at Albertina

Albertina in Vienna has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressio...

Ren Han 任瀚

Ren Han (1984 Tianjin, China) lives and works in Tianjin. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts Tianjin...

Masood Kamandy

Masood Kamandy (b. 1981 in Colorado) is a Los Angeles based artist. Masood received his MFA from the...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Speaker

Master painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder would often use biblical themes to depict village life as he...

Firework Drawings

Rosemarie Fiore (born 1972, New York) lives and works in Bronx, NY. She studied at University of Vi...

Nagtzaam

Nagtzaam makes drawings. Using graphite and the occasional colored pencil, he works primarily in bla...

The farmer continued to plough

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is a painting in oil on canvas long thought to be by Pieter Brue...

German Pop

Was there Pop Art in Germany? Pop, which began in Great Britain and the USA and was quickly establis...

Hugh Ferriss

Hugh Ferriss was trained as an architect at Washington University in his native St. Louis, Missouri....

Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon, born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published...

Naum Gabo

Naum Gabo, a pioneer of constructive art, was born Naum Neemia Borisowitch Pevsner in Russia in 1890...

Sergio Mora

Sergio Mora was born in Barcelona in 1975 and studied at La Llotja. He lives and works in Barcelona....

Wataru Yamakami

Great Vitality

Great Vitality: Old work and leftover materials were renewed through ripping, cutting, painting, and...

The Return of the Herd

It is that time again - summer has finally ended, and winter is coming. This 16th century painting b...

Chair Art

Chairs by artists: Ai Weiwei, Joseph Beuys, Julius Deutschbauer, Tone Fink, Heinz Frank, Gelitin, Ma...

Geometric Abstraction

Artist Gary Andrew Clarke lives and works in Manchester, UK.

Indolence in Art

Indolence is the avoidance of activity. "I like the word ´indolence´. It makes my laziness seem cl...

William Turner

The exhibition "Late Turner – Painting Set Free" surveys the achievements of JMW Turner (1775–18...

Hans Christiansen´s Jugendstil

"I take my work as an artist as general as possible: I want to paint a portrait but can also design ...

Venice without Tourists

La serenissima

Pop Art 1960s

“Popular, mass produced, expendable, cheap, witty, sexy, playful, conspicuous, seductive” Richar...

The Harvesters

This painting is one in a series of six works that depict different times of the year. As in many of...

Baroque Co-creation: Jan Brueghel I and Rubens

During the seventieth century, two of the most famous masters of baroque art - Jan Brueghel the Elde...

Cats in Art

According to historians, the relationship of cats with humans could date back more than 9,000 years....

Dürer - Observer of Nature

Master print-maker, draftsman, and the Renaissance man from Germany, Albrecht Dürer was a keen obse...

Jason Martin

Jason Martin was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1970. He went to Chelsea School of Art and made...

Gustav Klimt: Landscapes

Georg Flegel: Still Life Painter

Georg Flegel (1566 – 23 March 1638, Frankfurt-am-Main) was a German painter. He is today best know...

"... Cheese! We´ll go somewhere where there´s cheese!"

Pictures of cheese painted by old and new masters.

The World is an Apple.

French post-impressionist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), "the painter of apples" synthesized formal pr...

An Art Collector in His Art Chamber

2014 is the anniversary year of four-hundredth birthday of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662) of H...

Nils Dardel: Modern Dandy

Nowadays, Sweden loves Nils Dardel’s (1888–1943) oeuvre. But that was not always the case. He ha...

Venice of America

The Venice recreation area opened on July 4, 1905. Unfortunately for Abbot Kinney, the developer of ...

Ilya Chashnik Илья Чашник

Ilya Chashnik was one of the foremost disciples of Kazimir Malevich. He was born into a humble Jewis...

Summer by Arcimboldo

Call him creative, whimsical, or deranged. Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a stained-glass ...