Rudolf Steiner’s architectural masterpiece, the double-domed building known as the first Goetheanum, featured decorated ceilings that were designed and partly painted by Steiner himself, utilizing vegetable colors and a new layering technique. Steiner emphasized that he was seeking a new artistic conception based on a conscious understanding of ......
Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries
Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their wispy veils and vapourous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and fog with the passage of time, the vagaries of memory and feelings of uncertainty. Mist and fog ......
On the first day of lockdown, Mary Collis decided to post a painting onto her Facebook page, suggesting she would ‘lift the
day’ during the forecast two-week lockdown. 245 days later she was still posting daily. This Facebook lockdown exhibition
became a daily source of inspiration and sanity for Mary and her followers, as they shared memories ......
During World War II, London was at its most perilous moment since the Great Fire of 1666. Districts were transformed at night by falling bombs, fires, and searchlights. During the day, when the results of the previous night's bombing were laid bare, ordinary people dealt with the aftermath as best they could. In 1939, the Ministry of Information ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423118
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Pena disclose Rivera's iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his ......
This book is the first comprehensive retrospective of the paintings of Steven Hefferspanning over twenty years of his art practice. Written by leading art historianEdward Lucie-Smith, it provides an exploration of the British artistic relationshipto landscape in the context of Steven Heffers work and the artists place in thecontinuing story of ......
William Turnbull (1922-2012) stands as one of Britain's foremost artists in the second half of the twentieth century. Both a sculptor and a painter, he explored the changing contemporary world and its ancient past, actively engaging with the shifting concerns of British, European and American artists. Presenting interpretations of Turnbull's ......
This is the only known biography of the Scottish Victorian artist, Colin Hunter (1841-1904) who exhibited nearly one hundred art works in the Royal Academy over three and a half decades.
