Henri Matisse is one of the artists people often think they know before they have really looked at him. Bright colour, loose shapes, dancers, interiors, paper cut-outs, blue nudes,
Artists have always worked with more than paint, canvas, marble and bronze. A chair, a bed sheet, a broken tool, a bottle top, a newspaper cutting, a piece of fabric or a cardboard
Collecting Art does not have to begin with auctions, private dealers or expensive rooms where nobody tells you the price. For many people, it starts in a much quieter way: a small
Art is never made in a vacuum. It carries traces of language, place, family, migration, belief, memory, politics, craft and the body. Even when an artwork looks abstract, it can st
Linocut art has a way of looking both historic and current at the same time. A good lino print can feel rooted in early twentieth century modernism, poster design, craft tradition
René Magritte is one of those rare artists whose images remain instantly recognisable even to people who do not usually follow art history. A man in a bowler hat with his face hid
Landscape art used to be described as a way of looking at the world. Now it is often a way of reading what is happening to it. That shift is one of the most important changes in co
Something has changed in the way people look at images. We are surrounded by them more completely than ever, and many of them now arrive with a new kind of smoothness. They can be
If you have ever stood in a gallery looking at a plain cube, a row of repeated forms, a short sentence on a wall, or an ordinary object placed with unusual seriousness, you may hav
