Stories By Sarah Mills
Cinema
Paintings in the Movie “The Accountant”
August 8, 2020The Accountant is a 2016 action thriller starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick and J. K. Simmons, and is directed by Gavin O’Connor. It centers on the character of Christian Wolff, a man who has high-functioning autism....
Ancient
The Sacred Cats of Ancient Egypt
August 5, 2020The Ancient Egyptians revered cats of all kinds and honoured them in their art. From servals to the mighty lion, cats were seen as powerful forces for both protection and destruction. According to their mythology, the...
Art State of Mind
The British Landscape in Art
June 25, 2020The British Landscape: where do we start? From Turner to Hogan the British landscape presents a constant challenge to artists to capture its elusive moods. Landscape painting is deeply soulful, often telling stories of homeliness and...
20th century
Let’s Ride a Tiger! Escape into the Exotic with Henri Rousseau
June 23, 2020Let’s Ride a Tiger! Definitely not! We should never try to ride a tiger, and Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible (especially for the person I think). The art of Henri Rousseau...
dailyart
All Souls & Halloween: Death in Art
October 31, 2019All Souls & Halloween: Death in art seems like a fitting title for an article in October! The feast day of All Souls and the festival of Halloween are celebrated close to each other in the...
Halloween Special
Fighting Skeletons of James Ensor
October 26, 2018We can’t let Halloween pass by without mention of the late Victorian avante-garde painter James Ensor. Often likened to Munch is his ability to convey the miseries of human experience, while often macabre his paintings are...
Victorian Era
Five MORE Things Everyone Should Know About The Victorians
July 6, 2018The last time that we talked about the Victorians we looked at steam travel, Alice in Wonderland, Romanticism, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sherlock Holmes, so what shall we look at next? How about The Gothic, Jack the...
Art History 101
Five Things Everyone Should Know About The Victorians
May 28, 2018What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I for one almost always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, Charles Dickens, pea-soupers (thick London fog),...
20th century
Meet Beautiful Cats by Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe
April 24, 2018Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, the British engraver, illustrator, and painter perhaps best known for his paintings of birds, painted many other animals besides including monkeys, dogs, bulls and indeed humans! My favorite Tunnicliffe paintings though are his...
History
Queen Elizabeth I – Portraits of the Last Tudor Rose
March 20, 2018Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) was the only surviving child of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Being a girl was hard enough in the face of Henry’s desperation for...
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Paintings in the Movie “The Accountant”
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