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Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger (born 1953 in Dortmund, died 1997 in Vienna) is one of the foremost and simultan...

“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”

Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...

Expression/Information

Painting is seen as a form of practice that—contrary to canonical accounts—in no way shies away ...

German Art since 1960

German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

reversed silhouettes

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L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Raymundo Colares

Raymundo Colares (1944 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais - 1986 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais) was a Bra...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Blast

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...

DADAMAINO

“I have always loathed the material and have always sought the immaterial” Dadamaino (Emilia Edo...

Manufactured Landscapes

We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...

Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque naît à Port-au-Prince, le 5 novembre 1937. En 1957, il quitte Haïti pour New Y...

Impressionist Gardens

“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

German Painting after the 1960s

What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

Silent Geography

Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...

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...

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...

Forward Retreat

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

Roberto Burle Marx: Landscaping Brazil

Roberto Burle Marx, considered to be the father of modern landscape architecture, was abstract paint...

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...

The Long River

Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the ...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

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

It Must Be Beautiful

Bus stop embellishments in Belarus. Photographer Alexandra Soldatova was born in 1983. She graduated...

Jean Arp: Randomness

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

Simon Vahala ....things that simply just happen

... things that simply just happen, with no one noticing or caring. The subject? Nature inscribed by...

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...

Parc de la Villette, Paris

The participants in the 1982 architecture competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris saw submi...

Postcards from Miami

Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi

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, ...

Jeremy Toth

Jeremy Toth is a photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. In between working on his own self-dir...

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...

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 ...

Landscape in my Mind

A network of connections between man and nature, the landscape presents itself as a projection of th...

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

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

Richard Estes´ New York

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

Borderline

Looking at a map of the world with its many frontiers it is obvious that someone drew the lines. Sep...

Terraform

Josef Schulz studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie where he encountered both Bernd and Hilla Bech...

Exit Eden

Doug Fogelson studied photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College...

The Tallest Buildings in the World

The tallest buildings in the world in 1901 New York City and other images from the United States aro...

Moyen Format Numérique

Gilles Alonso est photographe indépendant à Lyon, spécialisé en architecture. "Mes champs d'acti...

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

Daniel Salemi

Daniel Salemi’s work investigates the lack of distinction between a structure and its location. Th...

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...

Joel Sternfeld: On This Site

Joel Sternfeld was born 1944 in New York. He earned a BA in Art from Dartmouth College in 1965. He b...

45º27´51.36"N 4º37´33.62"E

Series "Grid Reference" by Sam Irons. Sam, born 1978 as son of actor Jeremy Irons, works as a film l...

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...

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...

A Feast Of Colours

Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...

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...

Masood Kamandy

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