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By studying all forms of art we can feel elated or uplifted or, just as easily respond in a negative way. How we respond depends on our knowledge or, how our imagination is stimulated visually. In Understanding Paintings: Bible Stories and Classical Myths in Art author Patrick de Rynck demystifies much of the iconography found [...]

Creators, collectors and connoisseurs, in February 2009, were all competing to buy 733 pieces from the Christie’s sale of Pierre Bergé’s and Yves Saint Laurent’s art collections. Baroque bronzes, antique silverware, statues, cameos, and paintings by Picasso, Brancusi, Matisse, Mondrian, in addition to Art Deco furniture all found new homes at record prices. 100 of [...]

My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic is a book about everything you need to know about art, ads, life, god and other mysteries and weren’t afraid to ask. Described both as a ‘super collector’ and ‘the most successful art dealer of our times’ husband of broadcaster and cookery writer Nigella Lawson, [...]

“A lot of people loved him. A lot of people didn’t. And some people felt both passions with equal strength“. In After Fire: Clifton Pugh – Sally Morrison, the author reveals the man behind the palette, paint and canvas.
Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1924, Clifton Pugh rose to prominence as a portrait and landscape painter, [...]

Art is all, a form of observation and an occult medium. Those who understand and practice recognize each other across a crowded room, as do Andrew and a mystery woman when he goes to the museum to view “Leda and the Swan.”

A concubine for the clergy the beautiful Paula,  A Woman of Seville,  is like everyone else in the days of the dreaded Inquisition. She is seeking love eagerly among painterly scenes of beauty, betrayal, lust, ladders, sensibilities and sensuality.
Paula Sanchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father [...]

Painting Today by Sothebys Director of Research Tony Godfrey is a lively and comprehensive overview of painting of the last 40 years, presenting work by such celebrated figures as Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch, alongside emerging artists including Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame
Photo-realism, abstraction, portraiture, installation painting, neo-expressionism and the Leipzig School are just some [...]

Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born Salvador Dali’s work is captured brilliantly with some of his best works by art historian Rachel Barnes
In Salvador Dal , art historian Rachel Barnes provides a lively and informative account of the great artist’s life and inspirations alongside giant-sized reproductions of his work. H

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Younger than Jesus showcases over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33.
The Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory is a guidebook to the future of art. Working with a research team made up of more than 150 curators, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists scattered across the globe, New Museum curators Massimiliano Gioni, [...]

“McDonalds Art of Australia is a welcome publication that is engagingly written and beautifully produced” – Sasha Grishin smh.com.au Saturday December 20 2008.

In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly-regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of pre-history, settlement and exploration, [...]