One of the first known appearances of it is in this painting ... you can find an eye being used in ancient Egyptian times. For example, the "Eye of Horus" belongs to Horus, the sky god, often ...

Preying and playing on the fallibility in vision is the new movement of “optical art ... lighter background. Some, like Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to ...

Editor’s Note: Curator and art historian ... of these Black figures on the canvases in which they appear might seem minor. They are often pushed to the peripheral, into the background, while ...

IN ‘The Third Eye of Indian Art: Aesthetics as Vedanta’, Harsha V Dehejia takes the reader through a journey of opening the trichakshu, or the third eye, to appreciate art.

including James Cambridge “the black.” Thanks to new findings by Dr. Edward Town from the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the boy was called James Cumberlidge, the name he used ...

prints and drawings that see the “modern master of British art turn his unflinching eye firmly on himself.” Among them is 'Self-Portrait' (1974), a powerful graphite and watercolor study, on loan from ...

Her column appears on the first Thursday of every month on our website and in our Art Market Eye newsletter in which our art market editors Anna Brady, Anny Shaw and Kabir Jhala analyse the latest ...

They directed their gaze to interesting and eye-catching elements in the painting, which had been emphasized in the descriptions. However, another result was perhaps even more remarkable ...

Watch Anatomy of a Painting The Gynaecologist and the Slave 11 min Watch the programme In the late 18th century, the artist Gautier-Dagoty painted a portrait of the Countess of Barry, favourite of ...

similar paradoxes make for a painting of hypnotic weirdness. Are we looking at perfection or sin? A stately or a casual scene? The child’s greedy lips suck the mother’s nipple while one eye ...

Conventional wisdom says art should be hung at eye level. But it’s important to remember that “eye level” means different ...

If you were to whittle down a list of colours to paint your radiators, there’s a high chance that black would be the last ...