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Vik Muniz Spaghettti

  Vik Muniz takes photographs that have the nature of visual illusion. Muniz calls himself a 'low-tech illusionist' and has found and used endless images from popular culture to art historical mast...

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Beans from Carracci

Annibale Carracci, the Bean Eater (1583)Galleria Colonna, RomeThe Carraccis were an important artist family in the Middle Ages. He ran an art academy together with two brothers. The main point was ...

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Moderne vs. Contemporary Art

What is the difference between modern and contemporary art? That is a question that newcomers to the art market regularly ask themselves. And certainly after the Kunstrai last weekend, a question t...

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Dried pickled ham from Paul Gauguin

Gauguin (1848-1903) believed that every aspect of life should receive the same aesthetic attention as, for example, the human figure. “Don't copy nature too literally. Art is an abstraction.” Gaugu...

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Raw meat by Peter Coker

Peter Coker, the butcher's shop no. 1. (1955)Graves Art Gallery, SheffieldThis realistic work was purchased by the Tate Gallery at the first exhibition, but Coker did not make an immediate breakthr...

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The Wave from Hokusai

One of the best-known Japanese prints is The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). He made this work in a series of 36 views of Mount Fuji. Landscapes were a new theme in early 19th century...

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Schulman & the 'Larense School'

If you now walk through Laren and the picturesque Blaricum, you will see that some houses have extra large windows on both the ground floor and the top floor. There is a good chance that a painting...

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Cheese by Van Dijck

Fruits, bread and three cheeses are laid out sort by kind on a table covered with precious damask cloths. The Haarlem painter Floris Claesz van Dijck is one of the pioneers of Dutch still life pain...

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