Discover how painters such as Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Jacoba van Heemskerck drew on the legacy of Dutch landscapes and realism to put their own spin on the Impressionist movement.

Impressionism may have originated in France, but artists in late 19th- and early 20th-century Netherlands quickly made it their own. The genre's vibrant colors and focus on light and atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country's groundbreaking traditions of landscape painting and realism. This exhib...

A captivating visual exploration of birds and the natural world as seen through the eyes of artists across the globe and throughout history.

The natural beauty and diversity of birds have fascinated us for centuries. Since their first appearance in art in medieval manuscripts, birds have proved to be a popular and enduring subject for artists who have sought to capture the delicacy and majesty of these wondrous creatures.

This beautiful book brings together a collection of artworks depictin...

These radiant images from the renowned 19th-century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel, featuring marine microorganisms, will enthrall fans of his previous collections and garner-renewed attention for Haeckel's unparalleled artistry.

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht, 1606 - Antwerp, 1684) is among the very best still-life painters of the seventeenth century. He worked both in Antwerp and the Northern Netherlands, thus bringing together Flemish and Dutch painting. De Heem was a wizard with oil paint who portrayed eye-catching illusions of opulence and beauty in his many still lifes of varying sizes. In the more than five decades in which he painted, he always sought innovation in his choice of subject matter and in the breath...

A feast of colour and texture, Chila Burman's first major monograph celebrates one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists and her extraordinary body of work from across four decades.

Chila Burman is a British Asian artist known for her radical feminist practice, her joyful neon light installations and her use of kaleidoscopic colours. Since the mid 1980s her work has explored the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity and female empowerment, and the impact of imperialism, col...

With his posters, illustrations, television animations and his many exhibitions the world over, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) marked the global imaginary during the last third of the 20th century. He was a humanist who left behind him a figurative and poetic body of that, anchored in traditional techniques, were quite atypical in the artistic landscape of his era.

Sculpture knocked like a challenge that Folon threw himself into headlong in the second part of his career. Throughout the 1990s, ...

Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was een Belgische keramist/beeldhouwer.

Pierre Culot werd opgeleid door Antoine de Vinck en de Engelse meester-pottenbakker Bernard Leach. Hij behoorde tot de generatie keramisten uit de jaren 1950 die van hun ambacht een kunstvorm maakten. De klei die hij draaide, tot plakken vormde, afkrabde en verniste veranderde in courante gebruiksvoorwerpen met een majestueuze présence. Hij bleef zijn leven lang trouw aan zijn initiële pottenbakkerservaring, en liet zijn werk ...

This beautifully illustrated book, with over 300 colour illustrations, showcases masterpieces of 19th century Orientalist art with work by Delacroix, Decamps, Berche re, Bridgman, Ziem, Ge ro me, Corrodi, Dinet, Matisse, Majorelle and many others. Text in English and French.