Stories By Isla Phillips
21st century
Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus
June 19, 2020Kara Elizabeth Walker (1969 – ) is an American contemporary artist. She is known as a painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker. Last year (2019) she made the Fons Americanus a large scale public sculpture...
21st century
An Interview with Emily Thomas
May 25, 2020Emily Thomas is a 24 year old, British, emerging artist. At first glance, her bright and vibrant sculptural work is distinctive and abstract. In a previous article, Exploring Place with Emily Thomas, we looked at Thomas’ artworks...
21st century
Rainbows for the NHS and Damien Hirst
May 11, 2020Since lockdown came into effect in the UK, people have been putting rainbows on display to show love for key-workers. An inherent sign of hope, these rainbows are bringing joy as well as art to the...
20th century
Exploring Place with Emily Thomas
April 17, 2020Emily Thomas is a 24 years old, British emerging artist. Her bright and vibrant sculptural work is distinctive and abstract at first glance. However, it is also richly embedded in a sense of place. In this...
dailyart
Painting of the Week: Salvador Dalí, Madonna of Port Lligat
April 12, 2020Salvador Dalí’s The Madonna of Port Lligat depicts an image of Mary holding baby Jesus in her lap. However it has layers upon layers of meaning. For example symbolism that looks forward to Easter – the...
dailyart
Holy Week in Art. Easter Explained in Paintings
April 11, 2020To celebrate the Christian festival of Easter, here is the story of Holy Week and Easter explained in paintings. Palm Sunday Our ‘Easter Explained in Paintings’ manual starts with the Palm Sunday. The sixth Sunday in...
20th century
David Hockney – iPad Images of Springtime from Quarantine
April 7, 2020David Hockney is in lock-down in Normandy and spends most days in the garden, drawing the spring awakening on his iPad. In a series of letters written to the BBC correspondent he shares how he feels...
21st century
The Many Rebirths of Venus
February 20, 2020Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is iconic in western art. Alongside the Mona Lisa, it is probably a contender for “most famous painting.” Unsurprisingly the renowned Renaissance picture has inspired reconfiguration, reproductions, and references in...
Ancient Greece
3 Things You Might Not Know About The Birth of Venus
February 14, 2020It’s Valentines season, so what better thing to do than to meditate on the things you love, and of course, Venus definitively conquers all at this time of year. Art history’s love of Botticelli’s Birth of...
dailyart
Titian’s The Death of Actaeon (Metamorphoses VIII)
January 13, 2020A whistle-stop tour of each of the seven Poesies, which the Renaissance master delivered Philip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s, finally reaches it’s conclusion with Titian’s The Death of Actaeon. Revised style...
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