Recognising Victor Hugo as an avant-garde artist
The fact that the larger-than-life Romantic poet-novelist Victor Hugo also made drawings of serious quality and feverish intensity was appreciated by artists at the time like Van Gogh and Delacroix, and is well known to French scholars today. But word
Exhibition with paintings by Kostas Siafakas at gallery genesis
Gallery genesis presents the solo exhibition of paintings by Costas Siafakas entitled "The universe fell into the mirror with the handmade darkness". The people sleep in mighty, silent winds. Before him, his details awaken: the index finger of the hand, which
Hidden Sketch Reveals a More Traditional Version of Edvard Munch’s Sensual ‘Madonna’
Edvard Munch’s Madonna toes the line between sensational and spiritual. One of the Norwegian artist’s most controversial paintings, the 1894 work depicts a naked woman arching her back, long dark hair spilling down her shoulders as she raises one arm and stretches
Avramidou Smaragda
Avramidou Smaragda was born in Istanbul in 1946 where he started taking painting lessons with the painter Tatiana Grigoriadou. In 1975 he left the city and settled permanently in Athens. He apprenticed in the workshop of Gianna Persaki and after
The art of portraiture in the Louvre collections: Periodical exhibition at the National Gallery
The new National Gallery-Museum of Alexandros Soutsos inaugurates its exhibition activity with an imposing exhibition dedicated to "The art of portraiture in the Louvre collections". The Exhibition "In Search of Immortality - The Art of Portrait in the Louvre Collections", which
Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter
It’s hard to believe that “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel” at the Barnes Foundation is the first American museum show for this sensational French painter. Born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe and raised in Paris by a single mother, Valadon (1865-1938) began drawing at
Charcoal Drawings
How did the city become your main subject? Have you always been fascinated with urban spaces? I’ve been fascinated with them since I moved to New York — wherever I am is sort of what I draw. Because I’ve been in
Methods for Accurate Drawing
The Sight-Size Drawing Method Simply put, the sight-size method is the practice of painting or drawing at the same scale your eye sees your subject. When you look at your subject and drawing, they should be identical in size. Often artists
Samson and Delilah
People familiar with the astronomical prices of today’s art market might not bat an eye. But when the London National Gallery purchased Peter Paul Rubens’ Samson and Delilah in 1980, its price tag of $5.4 million (around $18 million today) made headlines as the third-highest sum ever paid at auction for
Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’
The following January, one of the most famous paintings in America will travel to London, returning to its place of origin exactly 100 years after its initial departure. The subject of Thomas Gainsborough’s Portrait of a Young Gentleman (1770) a ruddy-cheeked