Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is particularly known for his association with Dada, his Merz collages and the transformation of the Merzbau interiors of his home in Hanover. He left Nazi Germany in 1937 ...

The earliest evidence of drawings produced by a human being is in the shape of geometric patterns carved onto rocks. These are between 75,000 and 100,000 years old, however some academics believe that ...

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'The poetic qualities of the landscape, a mountain landscape – she's lived amongst it, was born amongst it. The quality is so poetic, it attracts me very much – more than anybody else today. I think ...

Not every old building contains a tangible atmosphere (whether for good or ill) that captures generations of people. Tabley Old Hall, once situated on its pretty little island, certainly had this ...

In the Ben Uri Collection is a remarkable double-sided piece, originally catalogued for the colourful pastel (recto) of a Welsh chapel (since identified as Tenby in Pembrokeshire, South Wales), signed ...

At the close of the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, Glasgow emerged as a vibrant hub of creativity and artistic innovation. Among the key figures of this cultural revolution were ...

George Frost (1745–1821) stepped out into the cold, sun-drenched air of a late afternoon in early October, ready to shake off his day's work at the office of the Blue Coach in Ipswich by striding ...

Many artists working during 1900–1945 were drawn to the rural parishes surrounding Stroud and Painswick, in South Gloucestershire. These parishes offered a distinct 'sense of place', epitomised by ...

Scottish conceptual artist Scott Myles is interested in social structures of exchange, creating artistic interventions that subtly subvert the transactional logic of capitalist commerce. Working in a ...

In 1857, the renowned writer Frances Power Cobbe visited Rome – a bustling artists' colony full of pioneering painters and sculptors – where she met Welsh sculptor John Gibson. She described him as 'a ...