The ‘Fate of the Animals’ is the imagery of annihilation as seen by the animals. Sharp angles and jagged shapes convey Marc’s jaded view of the relationship between humanity and the natural world...
Fate of the Animals by Franz Marc
Category: Artists and their Art
We Two Boys Together Clinging by David Hockney
An early work by Hockney, ‘We two Boys Together clinging’ shows no sign of the slick landscapes and carefully observed characters that he would later develop...
L.H.O.O.Q by Marcel Duchamp
Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. is an altered postcard reproduction of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. For this assisted readymade, he pencilled a goatee and moustache over the Mona Lisa’s chin and upper lip...
Madonna and Child with Saint Stephen, the Baptist, and a Donor (Dresden Altarpiece) by Parmigianino
The vertilinear composition of this painting gives it an otherworldly effect. The palm branch at the left of the frame, St. Stephen’s other arm holding one of the stones used to kill him...
Edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau: Sunset by Théodore Rousseau
Rousseau was for his unconventional nature-based painting. He was regarded as a pioneer of the Barbizon School of landscape art. Rousseau was one of the earliest artists to venture outdoors to observe ...
Venus and Adonis by Titian
Titian was a painter and regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, combining Mannerist and High Renaissance ideas...
Cantus Firmus by Bridget Riley
After introducing colour to her work in 1967, Riley expanded her palette to include a range of hues. Cantus Firmus is a repeated pattern of painted straight lines...
Dissolving/Vanishing by Josef Albers
Homage to the square is the signature series of over a thousand related works, which Albers began in 1949 and developed until his death in 1976...
Dance by Alexander Rodchenko
After attending a lecture by Russian Futurists, Rodchenko abandoned Art Nouveau and began to fragment his forms...
A Bigger Grand Canyon by David Hockney
Hockney began photographing the Grand Canyon, with the intent of photographing the Impossible, space...
Untitled (Blue Underwear) by Robert Mapplethorpe
Mapplethorpe was a photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. Featuring an array of subjects...
A Flat Surface with Paint on It
A tendency of the late 1950s and 1960s, Hard-edge Painting is closely related to Post-painterly abstraction and Colour Field Painting...
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows by John Constable
Constable, along with JMW Turner, revolutionized landscape painting of the 19th century. His paintings had a profound and far-reaching effect on European art...
Gay Liberation by George Segal
Installed in Greenwich Village in 1992, gay Liberation celebrates the historic even that took place in 1969 across the street. On 28th June 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar frequented by LGBT folks....
Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael
In 37 prolific years, Raphael’s passionate style blazed a trail of painting throughout the Italian high Renaissance. His skill in presenting his lust for life on to canvas translated into ideals of beauty were breathtakingly new. Raphael is considered to one of the holy trinity of master artists of the Renaissance, along with Da Vinci and Michelangelo...
Danae by Rembrandt
Rembrandt’s life and work were fuelled by an intense psychological study of people, objects, and their surroundings and a strong Christian devotion. Incredibly gifted, Rembrandt became a master of portraiture, historical, mythological, and biblical sense from a very young age. His techniques and use of materials was sensitive and spontaneous. His everchanging approach to colour, composition, and shadow produced powerfully moving and natural moments of the human existence. His mastery of light and texture emphasized emotional depth weaved a common theme through all his work confirming his status as one of art’s greatest and innovative masters...
Tempête en Jaune (Tempest in Yellow) by Dorothea Tanning
Art permeates through Tanning’s life; not only has her work become worthwhile art, her presence transformed photographs to make them more artistic. The spirals of energy that followed her as a person is also found in her brushstrokes. Her work evolved into abstraction and sculpture. The fold lines of fabric, linking the different phases, as cloth transforms depiction to media. In later years, she emerged as poet...
Untitled by Dora Maar
Maar was a talented photographer and made work that developed quickly from an acute poetic realism to Surrealist manipulations. She made images out of her own emotional interior and her desire to escape from it. Maar abandoned photography because Picasso insisted photographers were painters waiting to be released. Between 1935-45 she was in love with Picasso and became a muse for other artists as well as practicing painter herself. Maar suffered a breakdown after separating from Picasso and recovered through the help of Jacques Lacan, the famous psychiatrist. She moved from Paris to rural Provence and in later life painted abstract landscapes and melancholic still life. A recluse, she became a devoted Catholic. Living in the shadow of Picasso she never returned to photography, the medium which exulted her exquisite and unusual talent...
Farmhouse at le Pouldu by Paul Sérusier
Sérusier studied at the Académie Julian instead of the elite and conservative École des Beaux-Arts. Sérusier was a pioneer of Post-Impressionism and founded Les Nabis, named after the Hebrew word for ‘prophet.’ He sought to paint what he felt as well as what he saw, seeking unity between decorative and fine art...
Vega III by Victor Vasarely
Vasarely’s work provides some of the most distinctive images and optical effects of the 20th century. He steered a unique course, combining virtuosic technical precision and geometrical effects. His work speaks quintessential with the concern of what is the difference between what we can see and what is really there...
Calder’s Circus by Alexander Calder
Calder was a sculptor who redefined sculpture by introducing movement, through performances of his mechanical Calder’s Circus, motorizes works, and his mobiles. He also created static sculptures he called ‘stabiles’ as well as paintings, jewellery, theatre sets and costumes...
Easter Morning by Maurice Denis
Unique amongst the avant-garde painters of the late 19th century, Denis combined commitment to formal and stylistic innovation with an equally profound sense of tradition in art, culture, and religion. His bright and vibrant paintings express a commitment to abstraction and a reliance on the inner life of the soul. Unlike his peers Denis a soul shaped by his faith which would also lead to activities such as church renovation and altarpiece design...
Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin
One of the foremost advocates of naturalistic representation from any artistic era Repin defined essence of Russian Realism. From the humble beginnings of his birth he became an artist of bedazzling skill and insight, creating technically skilled work which conveyed a deep sensitivity to human emotion and suffering, and to historical and political events. Repin was committed to the spirit of the peasant class of his roots which allowed his art to be a humane social commentary. Despite being highly critical of Tsarist oppression his work brought him fame within state institutions. It is perhaps ironic that as an adopted patriarch of drab Social Realism the power of his work resonates much further than that milieu or any narrow context....
The Answer is No by Kay Sage
Sage was a Surrealist artist and poet. She was a member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of surrealism. Sage is best known for her artistic works of an architectural nature...
A 19 by László Moholy-Nagy
Maholy-Nagy was a painter, photographer, and a professor at the Bauhaus school. He was influenced by constructivism and an advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. He collaborated works with other artists, including Lucia Maholy (his first wife), Marcek Breuer, Herbert Bayer, and Walter Gropius. However, his greatest accomplishment is the School of Design in Chicago, which is now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology...
A Universe by Alexander Calder
It is from Calder’s desire in the 1930’s to create abstract paintings that travel through space that works such as A Universe, in which two spherical shapes move at different rates during 40-minute cycle, came into being...
Vitra Fire Station by Zaha Hadid
Hadid was an architect and the first woman to receive the acclaimed Pritzker Architecture Award. She received the prestigious Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2010 and 2011. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2012 for services to architecture. Hadid is the only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects...
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? By Paul Gauguin
Gauguin was Post-Impressionist artist, unappreciated until after his death, he is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style. Towards the end of his life he lived in French Polynesia and his paintings from that time in his life depict people and landscapes from the region...
Amor Sacro and Amor Profano by Titian
Titian was a painter and regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance, combining Mannerist and High Renaissance ideas to develop a style that is remarkably ahead of his time...
La Donna Velata by Raphael
In 37 prolific years, Raphael’s passionate style blazed a trail of painting throughout the Italian high Renaissance. His skill in presenting his lust for life on to canvas translated into ideals of beauty were breathtakingly new. Raphael is considered to one of the holy trinity of master artists of the Renaissance, along with Da Vinci and Michelangelo...
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm by Thomas Cole
Cole’s paintings stand as monuments to the dreams and anxieties of the emerging America during the mid-19th century. Born in England Cole emigrated to the USA as a young man and sought to capture the beauty of the American wilderness...
Achaean by Bridget Riley
Riley’s paintings implore the viewer to reflect on it feels to look. From the 1960s her work became synonymous with the Op Art movement and exploited optical illusions to make two-dimensional surfaces of painting to seem to move, sparkle and vibrate...
Afterwards by Kay Sage
An early work by Sage when she was experimenting with styles and geometric abstractions...
What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo
The small pins that pierce Kahlo’s skin reveal that she still hurts following illness and accident with her signature tear revealing the ongoing battle with the subsequent psychological overflow...
Winter, Gathering Firewood by Natalia Goncharova
Goncharova was an avant-garde artist, painter, writer, costume designer, set designer, and illustrator. Her lifelong partner was the fellow avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov with whom she invented Rayonism. She was also a member of the German art movement Der Blaue Reiter. She moved to Paris in 1921 where she lived until her death. Her work profoundly influenced the Russian avant-garde...
Waterfall at Mont-Dore by Achille-Etna Michallon
Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes...
A Young Woman (“Antea”) by Parmigianino
Parmigianino was one of the leading painters of Palma, he also worked in Rome and Bologna. Ranking as one of the most compelling artists with a daring and readiness to confront the orthodoxies...
After the Thunderstorm by Achille-Etna Michallon
Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, he won the Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He studied in Italy for two years but died of pneumonia before he could develop what he had learned....
A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas
Remembered as an Impressionist, Degas was part of a group of Paris artists who exhibited together in the 1870s...
Yellow Islands by Jackson Pollock
Pollock’s reputation as a pre-eminent Abstract Expressionist artist has endured long after his death. In the late 1940s he began to produce the famous drip paintings that represent one of the most original bodies of work of the 20th century with suggestions of the life force of nature and evoking Man’s entrapment in the body, in anxiety, and in the modern world...
Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Ingres was a painter with a daring blend of tradition and experimentation with which he reimagined Classical and Renaissance sources for 19th century tastes...
3 Standard Stoppages by Marcel Duchamp
By challenging the notion of what is art with his readymades, Duchamp is one of few artists that changed the course of art history. He sent shock waves across the art world that are still rippling today...
Going West by Jackson Pollock
Pollock’s reputation as a pre-eminent Abstract Expressionist artist has endured long after his death...
Sunrise in the Catskills by Thomas Cole
Cole’s paintings stand as monuments to the dreams and anxieties of the emerging America...
The Tower of Horses by Franz Marc
Marc had a tumultuous impact on the Expressionist movement that evolved after World War 1. He favoured the symbolic potential of abstraction rather than Naturalism and Realism...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by Parmigianino
Parmigianino was one of the leading painters of Palma, he also worked in Rome and Bologna. Ranking as one of the most compelling artists with a daring and readiness to confront the orthodoxies of the day Parmigianino was a leading figure of the Mannerist style...
Meeting by James Turrell
Turrell is an artist primarily focussed on Light and Space. Turrell is an artist primarily concerned with Light and Space...
The Muse Is in the Woods
The Barbizon School was a loose association of artist who worked around the village of Barbizon, near Paris and the Forest of Fontainebleau...
Dancers in Rehearsal Room by Edgar Degas
Remembered as an Impressionist, Degas was part of a group of Paris artists who exhibited together in the 1870s...
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago
Chicago was one of the 1970s pioneers of Feminist art that questioned the authority of the male-dominated Western world, seeking to redress the tradition of women in visual arts...
