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Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: A Bigger Splash by David Hockney

David Hockney is one of Britain’s most well-known and influential artists. His iconic style is instantly recognizable. As you hunch over your work,...

Candy Bedworth 31 August 2025

Impressionism

Masterpiece Story: Strolling along the Seashore by Joaquin Sorolla

This painting is the crowning work of Joaquin Sorolla’s late period. It shows his wife, Clothilde, and eldest daughter, Maria, walking elegantly on...

Zuzanna Stańska 31 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Here she is, Ophelia from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, gracefully descending into a stream while collecting wildflowers. Overwhelmed by grief...

Zuzanna Stańska 31 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Seascape Near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer by Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time. He dominates Post-Impressionism, he fills art books, and he inspires modern...

James W Singer 31 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Rhine II by Andreas Gursky

It seems to be one of those pictures you may accidentally take on holiday when the weather is bad. Rhine II by Andreas Gursky is not a photo we...

Joanna Kaszubowska 31 August 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: Guess Who Taught Me! Great Artists and Their Teachers

Kate Wojtczak 30 August 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: So You Think You Know British Art?

Ruxi Rusu 30 August 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: How Much Do You Know about Contemporary Women Artists?

Nikolina Konjevod 30 August 2025

Quiz

American Art QUIZ: Do You Know These Iconic Works?

Anastasia Manioudaki 30 August 2025

Realism

Gustave Courbet in 10 Paintings

Gustave Courbet was the bad boy of 19th-century French art. A political and artistic radical, he was imprisoned after the failed 1871 Commune and...

Catriona Miller 29 August 2025

Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Artist Stories

Jean-François Millet: The Peasant Painter

French artist Jean Francois Millet painted some the world’s best known artworks of peasants toiling in rural landscapes. Explore his life and work!

Candy Bedworth 29 August 2025

Contemporary Art

Jasmine Thomas-Girvan: On Making, Memory, and Marronage

What stories do materials hold? For Jamaican artist Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, each seed pod, feather, and shard of metal carries traces of memory,...

Guest Author 28 August 2025