Graphic design – Neoclassical, Typography, Layout
The Industrial Revolution and design technology The Industrial Revolution was a dynamic process that began in the late 18th century and lasted well into the...
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Graphic design – Private Press, Morris, Arts & Crafts
During the 19th century, one by-product of industrialism was a decline in the quality of book design and production. Cheap, thin paper, shoddy presswork, drab,...
Stained glass – 20th Century Art, Techniques, History
Three interrelated creative currents can be discerned in the development of 20th-century stained glass. First, a significant number of architects, following...
Graphic design – Printing, Typography, Layout
While the creation of manuscripts led to such high points in graphic design, the art and practice of graphic design truly blossomed with the development of...
William Morris – Arts, Crafts, Socialism
“Praise of Venus”“Praise of Venus” from A Book of Verse by William Morris, 1870; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.(more) As a poet, Morris first...
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Baroque Art, Frescoes, Murals
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything The hostile attitude of the official Spanish milieu seems to have resounded in the 19th century, when...
Gustav Klimt | The Kiss, Paintings, Art, & Facts
Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Top Questions What is Gustav Klimt’s most famous piece? Gustav Klimt’s most famous artwork is generally...
‘It caused so much upset’: Why Tracey Emin’s messy bed shocked the art world in the ’90s – then became an icon
Beyond its Tate Modern run, A Second Life will tour to Denmark, South Korea and Australia. Emin has obviously long outgrown the YBAs; she’s now a dame...
The Death of Marat: Unlocking the complex clues hidden inside art history’s 1793 true crime masterpiece
The two dates Look closely below David’s signature and you will see a silent struggle not just between two different dates but between two contrary...
‘Paintings were suddenly seen as money’: The reason art heists exploded in the 1970s
But as Flynn notes, while museums may have been slow to appreciate the threat of robbery in the past, the robbers have not generally displayed the sharpest...
