He never called himself an artist and knew little or nothing about the world of artists, but the drawings on the walls of his house of cityscapes and the portraits he drew as a teenager said otherwise. Born at a different time, who knows. He died in March 2021 a few months shy of his 99th birthday. A life lived.
One of the commonest questions asked by the general public [along with ‘how long did it take to do?] is’ why does some art cost so much? Both pointless questions but part of the inexplicable myth
If or when you decide to send one of your works to an art competition you would have to assume that there is a universal canon for deciding whether a work of art is good, bad or indifferent? Well, there must be. It stands to reason. Judges regularly award...
AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY
2,500 years ago Plato through his Republic sought to banish the mimetic arts from his notion of an ideal society, in that he recognised the distracting and destabilizing effects of art on its citizens
There is no doubt that Rembrandt would have been surprised that he holds the Guinness Book of Records medal for the most stolen work. Jacob de Gheyn III was stolen in 1966, 1973, 1981 and 1983.