Inspirations.  

Palatial Eliasson

Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including in...

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...

SCHNAPPVIECHER

The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

Opie

Julian Opie studied at Goldsmiths´ College (1979-82) under Michael Craig-Martin, for whom he briefl...

German Painting after the 1960s

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

David Bowie is Crossing the Border.

This is a tribute to the musician, artist, designer, and dandy David Bowie (January 8th, 1947-Januar...

Eleni Karpatsi & Julio Calvo = (fos)

Eleni Karpatsi and Julio Calvo are (fos), working in the fields of architecture and interior design ...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Roland Rainer

Roland Rainer, born 1910 in Klagenfurt, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. His dissertat...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

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...

Faces of the 21st century

Images by Thomas Mailaender. « Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art worl...

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...

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...

Europa ‒ Where it has been & Where it is at

What image represents Europe? Is it the fall of the Berlin Wall, universal human rights, the Europea...

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...

Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris

A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

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

Ghost: Kader Attia and Ventimiglia

The striking similarities between the installation of Kader Attia and the current situation in Venti...

Fresh White

Four major arcana here: Fresh White is at a turning point, and a very positive one. The Sun and the ...

American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s

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

A Mirror Darkly

Nick Ross was born in Scotland in 1986. He studied at Gray´s School of Art in Aberdeen on the Indus...

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...

Samuel Bradley Photography

Samuel is based in London. He received his BA in photography from UCA Farnham in 2012 where he speci...

Neighborhood

A bi-annual competition organised by architekturbild e.v. and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfu...

Amir Zaki: Southern California

Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...

Passo del Rombo / Timmelsjoch

The goal of the project was to give the iconic Timmelsjoch pass a new appearance without adding a "c...

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

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

László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy was born 1895 in Bácsborsód, Austria-Hungary. He attended Gymnasium in the ci...

The New Social

From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...

Sony World Photography Awards

Gordon Walters: Koru

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

Art Dubai 2015

This year I again visited Dubai to browse Art Dubai 2015. Now being the hottest art market hub in th...

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...

Contemporary Still Life

Works from the Sony Photography Award 2015 shortlist. © Courtesy of 2015 Sony World Photography Awa...

Richard Estes´ New York

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

Sturtevant Double Trouble

Elaine Sturtevant understands the power of images. The American artist who worked most of her life i...

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla

Jennifer Allora was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974. Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 19...

Herb Aach: Color Theory

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

Who the f*** is Halil Altindere?

Since the mid-late 1990 artist Halil Altindere played with the notions of social and individual idio...

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...

Modular Constructivism: Norman Carlberg and Erwin Hauer

Norman Carlberg (born 1928) studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illino...

18 classic chairs

The chair is one of the most fascinating design objects of all time. An exhibition at the Gorcums Mu...

Enrico Castellani: Superficie

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

Gwendolyn & Guillane Kerschbaumer

Atelier Areti features the work of Gwendolyn and Guillane Kerschbaumer. Gwendolyn was born in 1976...

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...

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...

Posters from Germany, Austria, Switzerland

In the spirit of media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s widely known book The Medium is the Massage: An...

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...

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...