Väinämöinen Creating Light

Väinämöinen did not enjoy staying in the dark lands of Pohjola but wanted to go back to his home in Väinölä. Louhi, the mistress of the Northland, asked Väinämöinen to forge the Sa...

During the 1960s, Flavin shared with other proponents of Minimalism an analytical approach to art that rejected all associative or evocative forms. In each piece of this period, th...

Character: description on folk. 4b and 5b, miniature on folk. 5a, 172 x 214 mm. Author apparently Jiří Gabriel Mayer - see here the figure at the end of the miniature description. ...

The Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) spent most of her life in France but Norway played an important role in her art. Her art underwent a transformation in the early 1...

Jan Jansz. van der Heyden was a painter and inventor, focusing his artistic activities on urban views and to a lesser extent on landscapes and still lifes. It would seem that he st...

Between 1871 and 1876 Francis Silva, a prominent member of the American Luminist movement, obsessively painted the banks of the mythical Hudson River from different perspectives an...

Plastic microbead 'lasers' engulfed by astrocyte cells, artistic impression. This image shows astrocytes which have engulfed (by a process called phagocytosis) plastic microbeads s...