An insight into the orchestration and harmonic language contained within Holst’s “Venus - the bringer of peace” from his Suite ‘The Planets’. Holst makes an original and colourful combination of a Horn solo with 4 Flutes and 3 Oboes,...

In this educational video, we delve into the fascinating world of Impressionism and its origins in the mid-1800s in Paris. We explore how the camera played a pivotal role in inspiring a group of young artists to rebel against traditional...

Rather than engaging with the bourgeois decadence of Paris, Rembrandt Bugatti instead sought out another sort of company. He consulted the zebras, storks, elephants and other exotic animals in the magnificent gardens of the Jardin des...

This tutorial demonstrates key lessons in palette knife techniques using acrylics. Painting with a palette knife in an...

This tutorial demonstrates key lessons in palette knife techniques using acrylics. Painting with a palette knife in an...

This tutorial demonstrates key lessons in palette knife techniques using acrylics. Painting with a palette knife in an...

This tutorial demonstrates key lessons in palette knife techniques using acrylics. Painting with a palette knife in an...

See Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh brought to Life in this cutting-edge animation, as you go on a journey alongside both the Art and the Artist. This animation not only features an array of Van Gogh’s masterpieces but delves into...

Monet uses color and composition to draw your eye to the water and plant life below a Japanese-style bridge in his impressionistic painting.

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old.



Just seven years later, he would

be dead.

It was really his last four years where he developed the...

Why are some artists popular in their time, but are forgotten later? We discuss this question by looking at Bouguereau and Renoir, two artists from the 1880's, and compare their styles set against the backdrop of the culture in which...

Discover how a small Gothic bridge near Weimar, Germany provided Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger with one of his most iconic motifs. In the peace and quiet of the countryside, away from the crisis of the modern world, Feininger found a...

Mary Cassatt, In the Loge, 1878, oil on canvas, 81.28 x 66.04 cm / 32 x 26 inches (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker In nineteenth century France, the gaze of the observer—whether on Napoleon's...

Histrionic personality disorder falls into the cluster B grouping of personality disorders. Cluster B refers to the group of personality disorders that share the characteristics of being dramatic, emotional or erratic....

Sure, you've seen Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night before. And maybe you know of him as a tortured soul. But let's take a closer look behind this most recognizable work of art.