View highlights of our 2016 Christmas Art Camp from Warhol to Matisse, Cezanne to Dali, Native American Art to French Impressionists, Expressionism, Surrealism and much more, showcasing the work of kids from 5 to 12+ in paint, oil pastel, watercolour, lino print and clay. “Thank you Barbara for the brilliant classes. D learnt much and thoroughly […]
Tove Jansson, Sleeping in the Roots, 1930s, gouache and Indian ink on paper, 22.1 x 26.7 cm, Tampere Art Museum, Moominvalley. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis. The UK’s first major retrospective of Tove Jansson’s works, including not only some of her Moomin illustrations and comic strips but paintings spanning her work over 50 years, arrives at […]
Richard Aldrich, Future Portrait #49, 2003 Acrylic on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm At Saatchi Gallery to 22 March, this exhibition showcases the work of 9 contemporary artists, all of whom work with paint in an art world currently dominated by more modern media such as video, installation and conceptual art – paint was entirely absent […]
David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) 1972 Private Collection © David Hockney Born in Bradford in July 1937 the fourth of five children, Hockney remains one of the most popular and influential British artists of the 20th century. One of the founders of the British pop art movement of the 1960s, in 1964 […]
The major new exhibition, Cézanne Portraits, will bring together over 50 of Cézanne’s portraits from collections across the world. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted almost 200 portraits, including 26 of himself and 29 of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. Cézanne is considered one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. Generally categorised as a ‘Post-Impressionist’, he has […]
A 530 year old pen and ink sketch of St Sebastian by Leonardo da Vinci was identified this week – found by a French doctor. Valued at just under £12.5 million, the beautifully executed highly expressive drawing shows the muscular Saint bound to a tree in a desolate landscape and looking to Heaven. The exciting […]
A 7.5 x 5” (19.3 x 13 cm) pen and ink sketch found by a retired French doctor among his late father’s collection of unframed drawings is believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci. The work depicts the muscled St. Sebastian bound to a tree, hand and foot, eyes pleading towards heaven. Da Vinci referred to eight drawings of […]
“A Holiday at Mentone”, Charles Conder, 1888. Oil on canvas 46.2 x 60.8 cm. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide South Australian Government Grant with the assistance of Bond Corporation Holdings Limited through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation to mark the Gallery’s Centenary 1981. © Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide The Australian Impressionists were a […]
Five Drunken Kings Return on Horses, a 2-metre-long hand scroll by Ren Renfa, was sold at a Beijing Auction for US$44m (303 million yuan) earlier this week [4 December 2016], a record for the highest paid Chinese artwork sold at auction in 2016. Ren Renfa was a prominent painter of horses and also a high-ranking official in charge of water controls […]
Jackson Pollock, Blue poles, 1952. Enamel and aluminium paint with glass on canvas, 212.1 x 488.9 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2016. Don’t miss the Royal Academy’s fantastic new blockbuster exhibition. Abstract Expressionism was the first all-American art movement or, as the RA explain, “art phenomena” – not […]
