Through enigmatic works such as her painting "White Flower", Agnes Martin wanted to convey a sense of lightness and to create an abstract emotional experience.
Larissa Fassler's "Civic. Centre. I, II, III" is one of a group of works that show multiple perspectives of urban spaces, offering an artist's way of looking that lets us reflect on how we perceive cities.
During his decade-long stay in Madras, the portrait miniaturist John Smart painted an elegant yet natural portrait of Elizabeth Campbell, most likely a token for her husband.
Nicknamed “the French Rembrandt,” Jean-Jacques de Boissieu is an intriguing figure in 18th-century French art, whose work was widely collected and inspired 19th-century printmakers across Europe.
In her drawings, Evelyn de Morgan created evocative studies of the female figure, capturing light and form through delicate lines and meticulously worked chalk pastel.
One of London's most important portrait miniaturists, John Smart painted his daughter shortly after their arrival in India in 1785, a portrait that illustrates his accomplished technique and his elegant style.
Depicting scenes of distance and serenity, painter Christiane Pflug raised the act of looking through kitchen doors and windows to the outside world to an art form.
In the hands of Colleen Wolstenholme, sculpture, the art of the object, becomes a powerful means of countering the objectification of women and deflecting the distorting lens of the patriarchal view that has...
A portrait of George Back depicts the naval officer as an artist who undertook four exploratory journeys to the Arctic, two with John Franklin, and recorded the vistas of the dramatic northern landscape.