When Picasso went to a show of children’s art, he remarked: “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael; but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.” He wasn’t alone in this ambition. Primitivism was a big thing in modern art; along with tribesmen …

 
The Foundling Hospital in Bloomsbury was created in the 18th century by a venturesome sea captain and shipwright called Captain Thomas Coram. It existed to alleviate the appalling suffering of the many wretched foundlings who were abandoned on the streets of London. Captain Coram’s hospital took some of them in …

Why was this art painting of Lady Jane Grey’s beheading such a hit in 1830s France? Jonathan Jones on Delaroche’s hidden agenda
Jane Grey was one of the finest classical scholars of her age, ­despite being a teenager. One day, a schoolmaster visited her family’s country house near Leicester and found …

Rather than use acrylic printsto have photos made in a wall artthat one can be proud of, the use of canvas art is the most popular and revered. As most individuals try to find special gifts, inimitable and largely special for all their beloved people, many will just offer them …

The painting, Le Blute-Fin Mill, is the first to be authenticated since 1995. It was bought in 1975 by Dutchman Dirk Hannema.
Louis van Tilborgh, curator of research at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, said the painting was unusual for the 19th-century impressionist, depicting large human figures in a landscape.
It …

Creating canvas pictureshas become a very popular enterprise in recent years. With so many people taking lots of digital photos in their anniversaries, weddings, parties, holidays and travels, the need to put them on canvas is very high. This goes hand in hand with finding a better and unique gift …

Art has been around in many forms for a long time now. Even ancient civilizations like Egyptians or Mayans use to practice arts in forms of rock sculpture or painting or even literature which dates back to 2100 B.C. Music has been around for quite some time also.
However one of …

THIS April will mark the centenary of the death of William McTaggart. He was one of Scotland’s greatest painters, but he is unlikely to be commemorated with much fanfare. Unlike our poets, our artists don’t seem to rate in our national consciousness and Raeburn’s 250th anniversary passed with scarcely a …

# 3 [23 February 2010]

 
Art allotments started as a weekly swap of images and ideas, like packets of seeds. We posted and received A4 envelopes of collage materials made up from what came to hand, a mix. The idea was to have an artist¹s conversation through something different, accessible and spontaneous.  The …

Still life is one of the disciplines in drawing and painting. Although it is becoming increasingly less popular as time goes on it is till one of the major traditions undertaken by the artist, and one taught readily in schools and colleges.
The aim of the still life drawing is to …