Arenig School: Wild Bohemians and Welsh Mountains
Welcome to a rollicking adventure with the Arenig School of automatic painting starring Augustus John, James Dickson Innes, and Derwent...
Candy Bedworth 21 May 2022
#Landscapes
Japan’s Greatest Masterpiece: (Thirty) Six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai
Everyone knows The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the print created by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. But not everyone knows that The...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 May 2022
The Night Sky: 10 Nocturnal Paintings You Will Love
Few things in life are more moving than the night sky on a cloudless evening. Artists have been fascinated by it for so long! The night has inspired...
Ruxi Rusu 12 April 2022
Art in the Golden Hour
The golden hour is a brief and awe inspiring moment filled with the most radiant light, intense colors, and deep shadows. For centuries artists have...
Marga Patterson 7 April 2022
The Hudson River School: Celebrating Nature, American-Style
The Hudson River School was a uniquely American art movement – the first to develop after the country gained its independence in 1776. It was a...
Alexandra Kiely 5 April 2022
Six Female Artists of the Hudson River School
The Hudson River School was a movement in American landscape painting being the first independent artistic tradition in the country. It was very...
Alexandra Kiely 5 April 2022
Female Painters of the Hudson River School, Part Two
In the previous article on Hudson River School, I introduced six female artists of this important landscape painting movement in 19th-century...
Alexandra Kiely 5 April 2022
Landscape Painters, National Parks, and the American West in Art
The US National Parks are natural and man-made monuments legally set aside for protection and public enjoyment. Yellowstone became the first National...
Alexandra Kiely 5 April 2022
Divine Beauty of Landscapes: California on Canvas
The beautiful state of California is home to some of the most geographically diverse topography. This makes for the most breath-taking vistas. It...
Maya M. Tola 5 April 2022
Masterpiece Story: Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church
Today in our Masterpiece Stories series we have something truly beautiful for you. I want to discuss Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin...
Zuzanna Stańska 3 April 2022
Masterpiece Story: Rainbow at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro has an interesting portfolio of paintings. His works are divided between cosmopolitan views of Paris and countryside views of...
James W Singer 3 April 2022
Masterpiece Story: Summer Night by Kitty Kielland
Kitty Kielland is one of the many talented female artists that have been erased from modern social consciousness. She was a brilliant painter of...
James W Singer 31 March 2022
