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Immerse yourself in the world of art with our captivating collection of articles, featuring artist profiles, art movements, exhibitions, and critical discussions that celebrate the creativity and inspiration of talented artists from various disciplines.
How Paula Rego dragged the dark into the light
The painter, who has died aged 87, looked deep inside herself to make sinister but universal art.
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Sheila Hancock Q&A: “I met Clement Attlee when I was working at the circus”
The actor on how education changes lives, falling in love and the brilliance of Shuggie Bain.
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Algernon Newton: rediscovering British art’s “Canaletto of the canals”
The painter’s depopulated cities and landscapes are visions of a 20th-century world wracked by war.
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How the Ukrainian painter Arkhip Kuindzhi laid out the spirituality in nature before Russian eyes
His 1905 painting Red Sunset on the Dnieper shows a Ukrainian village illuminated, something which today carries inescapably dark connotations.
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Raphael, the painter of perfection
He showed succeeding generations not just how art should be made but how an artist should live.
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How Mary Swanzy brought colour to cubism
Both a witness to and a participant in the birth of modernism, the Irish painter personified the experimental art of…
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The rural fantasies of Helen Allingham
How the Victorian painter and illustrator excised the hard reality of country life and replaced it with poetry.
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The flickering landscapes of Alessandro Magnasco
The Italian painter used skittish brushwork to create mysterious scenes of religiosity and menace.
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The nostalgic American winters of Dale Nichols
For the Nebraskan painter, the soul of the nation lay in the Midwest of his boyhood.
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How Chiura Obata combined the traditions of Japanese and American art
The painter made a career that melded the oriental and occidental styles.
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The Hokusai of Sussex
Eric Slater was an unassuming man, but his Japanese art-inspired woodcut prints show his brilliance.
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Leon Dabo’s pictures of nothing
For the 20th century painter, landscapes were less real places than elusive moods.
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How Paul Sandby painted Britain as he saw it
The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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The mysterious and unsettling pictures of Paula Rego
A new retrospective at Tate Britain reveals the paradox at the heart of her art: here is a narrative artist…
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The conscientious painter
Percy Horton was born in 1897 and so reached conscriptable age in the middle of the First World War. He,…
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How the German painter Lovis Corinth found his many moods reflected in a Bavarian lake
Corinth’s national aspirations weren’t enough for the Nazis, however. In 1937, 12 years after his death, seven of his paintings…
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Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter’s final days
The modern artist, Bacon said, must “unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently”,…
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Atkinson Grimshaw’s glistening landscapes of Victorian prosperity
In the world of Atkinson Grimshaw it is always autumn or winter, always evening, and the rain has just passed…
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The greats outdoors: paradoxical painter Gustave Caillebotte
The artist who extolled the talent of his impressionist friends at the expense of his own.
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