Many artists claim that they could explain nothing about their works, that their paintings came upon them by inspiration. The founder of the abstract art however, Vassily Kandinsky, expresses in the book “Concerning the spiritual in art” his theory of painting and sums up ideas that influenced his contemporaries. He makes the brave prediction that we are fast approaching the time of reasoned an...

O n the basis of his retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, it is evident that Roy Lichtenstein forged a narrow trajectory through the thickets of contemporary art. Unlike some of his protean fellow artists, such as David Hockney or Frank Stella, he found his style early in his career and followed its course with almost scientifi c precision for his entire life. Through an obs...

artists of the late Edo period (1615–1868), has been described as “cocky, quarrelsome, restless, aggressive, and sensational.” He obsessed with his art to the extent that he would move frequently rather than clean or repair his cluttered houses. During an artistic career that spanned 7 decades, he signed his works with more than 30 different names—typically in tandem with a shift in his artisti...

The ideological trend of contemporary art originated in the west, namely art, can also be called "postmodernism". In western history language, "after" (post) represents meaning "anti", which is behavior expressing personal style tide modern art. This reminds people was born 1950s Britain pop under background closely related to consumer society, unique gradually mature, British pioneer Richard H...

By J. H. Plokker. (Charles Skilton Ltd., ?4 4s.) Professor Plokker is an eminently qualified author for this subject. He is both psychiatrist and artist, and comes from Holland, a country renowned for its advanced and civilised approach to mental health. He has presented us with a deeply penetrating study, which is indispensable for those who deal with art and the mentally ill. In this well-pro...

abstract         sasanian dynasty, who governed as the last and the most glorious dynasty before islam in iran, has had an important role in enrichment of sasanian silver works and we owe the majority of silver works to this era. metalwork is one of the oldest arts iniranian civilization. the prominent metalwork crafts‚ left from different ages‚ acknowledge this fact. the art of this era has di...

saqqā-ḵāna artists looked to cults, rituals, and visual elements of folk and local vernacular culture for inspiration. although many of these items appeared crude in their execution and lacked the artistic polish of artifacts made by professional calligraphers and painters, and were often created collaboratively as a kind of street art, their true significance was not lost to these artists. vie...

“...[T]he sound of water escaping from mill-dams... old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brick work, I love such things.... As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight,” wrote John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter and source of inspiration for Constant Troyon and others, who looked for subjects not in the classical or academic...

the 20th century is the modern age and the time for the realization of mankind's dreams, mankind who aided by his intellect and science, creates a new world and expands the different limits of his life's aspects with utmost speed. the changed modern world creates artists who in turn create new thoughts and ideas. in the beginning of the second half of the 20th century and in the after...