Last week, I talked about Herbert James Draper and featured his painting A Water Baby. Today’s feature is another one of his works, called The Water Nixie from 1908, sometimes called The Water Nymph. The painting shares the title with a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 79 from Hanau in Hesse, […]
Herbert James Draper (1863-1920) was an English Neoclassical painter and illustrator whose career spanned the Victorian era and the first two decades of the 20th century. He was born in Covent Garden, London, on November 26, 1863 and was the only male son and seventh child of fruit merchant John James Draper and his wife, […]
I already wrote about Niki de Saint Phalle this summer, in prospect of visiting her Tarot Garden with some friends, and I was very lucky not only because we could manage the visit but also because a large exhibition on her work just arrived in Milan. The show is at the Museum of Cultures (you might […]
I’ve known the work of Yoshitaka Amano for years even without knowing it was his, and so have you. He’s the mastermind behind Final Fantasy but you might also know him for his work in The Sandman, and there’s a splendid exhibition in Milan showcasing his work. I went to see it last week. Here […]
Last weekend I was in Turin to catch some exhibitions and, in addition to the one on Giger I talked about yesterday, we also caught a really neat one on another of my favourite visionaries, William Blake, set in the former Royal residence and hunting lodge called Venaria Reale. The show is articulated into 6 […]
Turin mounted a small but very nice exhibition with some fine pieces I had never seen before. The concept is that H.R. Giger, the Swiss visionary behind the xenomorph in Alien, is so much more than that. I was already familiar with the rest of his production, but it was nice to see. Can’t get […]
If you remember from the last time I talked about him, I’m not overly fond of Picasso as a man. I can’t get over his attitude towards women and I think it’s high time to rethink his appropriation of African art. The Picasso Museum itself agrees with me. That being said, this recent exhibition at […]
I have no idea why, but the English versions of the panels for this exhibition in Milan translate the title as “Munch’s Inner Fire“, while literally the title has no shame in referring to Munch’s most famous work, the infamous Scream. Anyway, aside from giving me a chance to admire some of this artist’s lesser-known […]
Dulle Griet, literally “Mad Meg,” is a figure from Dutch folklore and art, often depicted as a terrifying figure leading an army of women into Hell. In the most famous depictions, she is shown as a woman dressed in ragged clothes or clad in armour; she often wields a weapon such as a sword or […]
…and I don’t mean it metaphorically; I mean it literally. I recently discovered that many young artists either struggle with the rules and concepts of perspective or find that boring, as they’re more oriented towards character and creature design, so here’s a list of games that use either perspective or axonometric representation as a really […]