Die Kunst liegt in der Natur§1862 erschien erstmals Ernst Haeckels bahnbrechendes Werk Atlas der Radiolarien , in dem er bis dahin unbekannte einzellige Meereslebewesen auf minutiös gezeichneten und lithografierten Farbtafeln darstellte. Jahrzehnte s ..

Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition. The expansion of the curatorial field in recent decades has raised questions about exhibition-mak ..

Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let's (Van) Gogh!Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history's greatest paint ..

Black is the favourite colour for a wide range of people, from priests to penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists, and has stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority, humility, sin, holiness, rebellion, conformity, wealth a ..

At the age of 19, on a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, a young Luc Tuymans saw the work of El Greco for the first time–an event that would lead him to become one of today's most influential artists. Almost 40 years later, that life-changi

Learn how to create vibrant character designs with the step-by-step guidance of professional artists from the illustration and animation industries.

By the time Goethe's Theory of Colours appeared in 1810, the wavelength theory of light and color had been firmly established. To Goethe, the theory was the result of mistaking an incidental result for an elemental principle. Far from pretending to a ..

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-y ..

‚Great art has dreadful manners…‘ Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe ..

The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of many but rather t ..

Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel P ..

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrate