In many ways projection is a truly ancient technology and art form; it would be reasonable to describe shadow plays and revolving lanterns as a form of projection which trace back thousands of years, however a more useful starting point is probably the camera obscura. Light passing through a pinhole into a darkened space can […]
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Taking a central and high profile position in Manhattan, New York, the Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest and most influential Modern Art galleries in the world. Conceived of in 1929 by Abby Rockefeller and two of her friends, it drew funding from the wealthy family and their friends and opened the […]
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Art prints of various kinds have existed for thousands of years, beginning with simple cylinder seals and woodblocks to create images and patterns. They slowly evolved into a medium for sharing art, gaining complexity in the hands of various artists and printmakers. The concept of woodcut art prints arrived in Europe around the 15th Century […]
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Multimedia Art showed it’s first signs of evolving in the late 1960s, but truly came to be in the Contemporary Art period as the number of mediums began to increase almost exponentially. Often confused with mixed media art (which mixes visual media such as oils and pastels on a single canvas), multimedia revolves much more […]
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Francisco Goya was a Spanish artist born in the mid-1700s, who is widely regarded as the most important Spanish artist of his time for his body of work including paintings and art prints. His family were middle class though not wealthy, and his education was unremarkable, producing a practical young man who showed some artistic […]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the biggest and best art galleries in the Americas, with over 2 million artworks in the collection, and an exhibition space are which is amongst the largest in the world. Centrally located in Manhattan, The Met was established in 1870 to make art easily available to view for the […]
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Based in central London, the Tate Modern art galleries are the home of the UK’s national collection of modern and contemporary art, and one of the world’s largest art museums dedicated to the post-1900s art periods. Receiving almost 6 million visitors a year pre-pandemic, it is also amongst the most popular art galleries in the […]
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The often forgotten roots of the contemporary street art movement lie in Chicano art murals and the graffiti scene; though man has always drawn onto walls in the interests of making his surroundings more attractive, the Chicano and graffiti movements added a spirit of artistry, independence, and defiance to it, often featuring social and political […]
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Spain’s national art gallery, and one of the great art galleries of the world, the Museo del Prado is located in Madrid, and houses one of the most outstanding collections of European art covering the 1300s through to the early modern art period, and an unsurpassed collection of Spanish art. It was opened in 1819 […]
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Albrecht Dürer was a German artist living in the late 1400’s and 1500’s, who became very famous as a painter and theorist during the German Renaissance, however the thing that brought him to widespread attention in his twenties was a woodcut art print series. Although he later produced prints from engravings, during the early part […]
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