The revelation that all those with access to the internet can now browse the nation’s collection of paintings, has gone relatively unnoticed, unless of course you managed to catch the Culture Show programme last Saturday (students by any chance?). So here goes! The Public...
Stealing from an Impressionist painter was never going to be easy. Monet’s paintings are characterised by their brushstrokes rather than their content, which presented me with a dilemma; how could I steal their ‘Impression’ quality with just my camera? Monet, Study of a...
I was lucky enough to have Steve Nelson as a tutor on my AHA gap year course last summer, and being lead by a working artist offered a fresh perspective on the art we saw in both Rome and Naples. Steve’s love of Italy was...
As with the beginning of every new year (granted no so new now we’re well into February), the international press has been filled with the latest updates on the film industry’s award season. The nominations for the Critics Choice awards, Golden Globes, SAG awards,...
Excuse the cliche, but there are undeniably some geniuses in the history of art who have produced the most truly breathtaking objects ever to have existed. These are by no means universal, and are rightly subject to each and every person’s individual opinions. What causes...
