The notion of community art evolved out of the idea of cultural democracy. Cultural democracy emerged after the Second World War and describes practices in which culture and artistic expression are ...

The lesson plan and downloadable materials on this page are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This is the first lesson in a sequential unit. Students look at and ...

Of the paintings in the Rijksmuseum, around 230 are still lifes. Life literally stands still in these arranged displays of objects, including shells, books, skulls and dead animals, as well as living ...

Decorative, sensual, and uncompromising, Art Nouveau ('New Art') emerged as a dynamic and expressive style in the visual arts from the early 1890s to the First World War. Taking its inspiration from ...

Roughly one third of the paintings in the National Gallery's collection of Western European art are of religious subjects and nearly all of these are Christian. The high percentage of works on this ...

In 1971 the art historian Linda Nochlin published a groundbreaking essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In it she investigated the social and economic factors that had prevented talented ...

The collection includes content that may not be suitable for all viewers. Words and phrases ascribed by the creators of certain works of art may be considered derogatory, offensive, or graphic in ...

Still House Plants speak to Patrick Clarke about growing self-confidence, rethinking the limits of guitar, voice and drums, and taking a “major step forwards” on their third album if i don’t make it, ...

Artists and art historians began to investigate how images in Western art and the media—more often than not produced by men—perpetuated idealizations of the female form. Feminist artists reclaimed the ...

The fact that technology became more accessible from that period onwards marked a new era for digital art with practitioners relying less on previous institutional relations. Photographic still from ...

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders ...

Some things never change. Pensioners and best friends Jack and Victor grumble about modern life and get up to no good as they head down the pub in Glasgow.