The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, sticks and guards of tortoiseshell, Great Britain, late 18th century. Pleated paper fan, painted on th...

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

August Macke experienced a particularly innovative period in German art — the arrival in Germany of the avant-garde movements from the rest of Europe, while the main Expressionist ...

Water-colour sketch of the Bala Hissar and city of Kabul (Afghanistan) by James Atkinson (1780-1852) between 1839 and 1840. Inscribed on the mount of this picture is: 'The Bala His...

In June 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, his friend Fritz Bleyl and their colleagues at the Technische Hochschule, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt, established Die Brücke (The Bridge), G...