A reflection on the epidemic of poor-quality contemporary sculpture in Britain’s public spaces – and why we’ve got used to it.
What happened to sculpture?
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Art Introductions
Art can be confusing. But The Art Wanderer is here to change that! With Art Introductions, you can get to grips with the art world through easy-to-read analyses, covering everything from Renaissance paintings, to auction house records, to art blogger interviews, in a series of jargon-free relaxing reads.
Keep an eye out for miniseries of topic-specific Art Introductions, offering weekly insights into little-known artists, themes, mediums, and movements.
Ross Muir and the Skating Minister
Discover the subtle yet brilliant reinterpretation of one of Scotland’s most well-loved artworks.
A Closer Look: Jan Van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’
Take an in depth look at one of the world’s most enigmatic paintings, and unravel the mysteries of this Renaissance masterpiece…
The Harlem Renaissance – Innovation and Injustice
Discover the ground-breaking, twentieth-century movement that advocated for racial equality through art
Shin-hanga – The Japanese ‘New Prints’
Discover the Japanese movement that was inspired by Impressionism and created a global fusion
Der Blaue Reiter – Abstraction and Intuition
Discover the German modernist movement that inspired Expressionism and its pioneering leader: Kandinsky
Regionalism – The Little-Known, World-Famous Art Movement
Grant Wood’s ‘American Gothic’ is one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century – and it belongs to Regionalism
The Baghdad Modern Art Group – The Birth of Arabian Modernism
The Baghdad Modern Art Group created a unique fusion of Cubism, Expressionism, and Iraqi culture
The Macchiaioli – The Italians who Invented Impressionism
Before Impressionism swept across the world in the late nineteenth century, a group of Italians were already changing the course of art
Marianne North – The Landscape of Botany
Marianne North was a Victorian botanical artist who travelled the globe painting flora and fauna in the landscape
Robert Seldon Duncanson: The Tale of a Nineteenth-Century Black Artist, from Cincinnati to the White House
Delve into the rich history of one of America’s most outstanding Romantic landscape painters
L. A. Ring – Master of the Danish Landscape
At the turn of the twentieth century, L. A. Ring was painting the Danish rural landscape as it was affected by industrialism