THE ART COLLECTION
The Art Collection is a continuous work in progress; it's 'a labour of love'. Here you will find what is essentially an online exhibition, presenting several works of any one artist. I trust you will be inspired and experience thoughtful moments that lead to creativity in whatever you do. THE BOOK COLLECTIONThe Book Collection has details, screenshots and samples of books to download in Apple ePub and PDF (for all devices) formats. Go to the Books Page. Enjoy your visit and may you be enriched with the work of masters of Art
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THE Books
Parliament of the Birds
Parliament of the Birds by Farid Ud-Din Attar, translated by Edward FitzGerald, with images from a painting by Habiballah of Sava In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they had none. The hoopoe, the wisest of the birds, suggests that they should find the legendary Simurgh - a benevolent, mythical bird in Persian mythology. The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represents a human defect which prevents mankind from realising enlightenment. When the group of birds finally reach the dwelling place of the Simorgh, they find a lake in which they see their own reflection.View Book Details and Screenshots . . .
Parliament of the Birds
Enlightenment Manifesto
The Enlightenment Manifesto - re-created from a post i created on GooglePlus many years ago -Text Extracts from Kalama Sutta and Images of Buddhist sculptures adorn this book. The sculptures are characterised by Buddhist subject matter, oftentimes adapting Greek and Roman elements. Stylistically, Greco-Buddhist art has the idealistic realism and richness of Hellenistic art, and it is believed to have produced the first representations of Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni, the Buddha.
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The Enlightenment Manifesto
THE ARTISTS
Amedeo Modigliani
A central participant in the Ecole de Paris, Modigliani modernized two of the enduring themes of art history: the portrait and the nude. Characterized by a sense of melancholy, elongated proportions, and mask-like faces influenced by such sources as Constantin Brancusi and African art, Modigliani's portraits are both specific and highly stylized.View Art : Amedeo Modigliani
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.View Art : Andy Warhol
Boris Grigoriev
Boris Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907. Boris Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of the Union of Impressionists group, and became a member of the World of Art movement in 1913.View Art : Boris Grigoriev
Camille Corot
Camille Corot was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching and famous art teacher in Paris. Corot was a leading figure in the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.View Art : Camille Corot
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jungwas a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. The Red Book is a red leather‐bound folio manuscript crafted by him between 1915 and about 1930. It recounts and comments upon the author's imaginative experiences between 1913 and 1916, and is based on manuscripts first drafted by Jung in 1914‐15 and 1917.View Art : Carl Gustav Jung
Chinese Art
Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists. Chinese art has arguably the oldest continuous tradition in the world, and is marked by an unusual degree of continuity within, and consciousness of, that tradition, lacking an equivalent to the Western collapse and gradual recovery of classical styles.View Art : Chinese Art
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874.View Art : Claude Monet
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.View Art : Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet born in Galesburg, Illinois and attended Knox College before studying painting in Chicago. In 1941, now in New York, she met the art dealer, Julien Levy who gave Tanning two one-person exhibitions, and also introduced her to the circle of émigré Surrealists. She turned her attention to her writing and poetry in the 1990s.View Art : Dorothea Tanning
Edmond Dulac
Edmond Dulac was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters.View Art : Edmond Dulac
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (12 Dec 1863 - 23 Jan 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most well-known works is The Scream of 1893.View Art : Edvard Munch
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet ARA was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The works of this first period are all more or less tinged by the influence of Rossetti; but they are already differentiated from the elder master's style by their more facile though less intensely felt elaboration of imaginative detail.View Art : Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was a prominent American painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life. He produced approximately five paintings a year.View Art : Edward Hopper
Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.View Art : Egon Schiele
Ferdinand Hodler
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called 'Parallelism' that emphasized the symmetry and rhythm which he believed formed the basis of human society.View Art : Ferdinand Hodler
Fernand Khnopff
Visual realism combined with a mood of silence, isolation, and reverie characterizes Fernand Khnopff's approach to Symbolism. Dissatisfied with the lack of spiritual meaning in academic and Impressionist painting, he developed a style combining precisely depicted surfaces with enigmatic states of mind. Like most Symbolists, Khnopff worked for Socialist causes.View Art : Fernand Khnopff
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typo-graphist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in USA and in France.View Art : Francis Picabia
Gabriel von Max
Gabriel von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter. He was the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann. He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth. His studies included parapsychology (somnambulism, hypnotism, spiritism), Darwinism, Asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions.View Art : Gabriel von Max
Gu Hongzhong
Gu Hongzhong was a Chinese painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Gu was active until 960 CE and was most likely a court painter for the Southern Tang Emperor Li Yu. His most well-known work is the Night Revels of Han Xizai. Gu's original no longer exists, but the painting survives as a 12th century remake.View Art : Gu Hongzhong
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a major figure in French Symbolist painting whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. During his lifetime, Moreau produced more than 8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings. André Breton famously used to "haunt" the museum and regarded Moreau as a precursor of Surrealism.View Art : Gustave Moreau
Gustav Klimt
I can paint and draw ... Only two things are certain. I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women. But other subjects interest me even more. I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting as a person. There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning until night.View Art : Gustav Klimt
H de Toulouse-Lautrec
Born on 24 November 1864, in Albi, France, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec pursued painting as a youth and went on to create innovations in lithography. He became highly famed for his posters, influenced by Japanese styles and Edgar Degas, and for imbuing marginalized populations with humanity in his art, including sex workers, as seen in his 1896 print series Elles.View Art : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was a French painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker. Known for his use of color, his work is regarded as responsible for laying the foundation for modern plastic arts, along with the work of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. At the age of 18, he went to study law, working as a court administrator. After a bout of appendicitis, during which his mother gave him paints.View Art : Henri Matisse
Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau became a full-time artist at the age of forty-nine, after retiring from his post at the Paris customs office - a job that prompted his famous nickname, "Le Douanier Rousseau," "the toll collector." Largely self-taught, Rousseau developed a style with its absence of correct proportions, one-point perspective, and use of sharp, often unnatural colors.View Art : Henri Rousseau
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch was a European painter of the late Middle Ages. He is widely considered one of the most notable representatives of Early Netherlandish painting school. His work is known for its fantastic imagery, detailed landscapes, and illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria and Spain.View Art : Hieronymus Bosch
James McNeill Whistler
One of the most significant figures in American art and a forerunner of the Post-Impressionist movement, James Abbott McNeill Whistler is celebrated for his innovative painting style and eccentric personality. He was bold and self-assured, and quickly developed a reputation for his verbal and legal retaliations against art critics, dealers, and artists who insulted his work.View Art : James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Japanese Art
Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, kirigami, origami, dorodango, and more recently manga, along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan to the present.View Art : Japanese Art
Jason deCaires Taylor
Sculptor, environmentalist & underwater photographer.First of all, I am British and very proud of my country, but having lived through three years of aggressive, divisive and destructive debate I felt compelled, as an artist, to convey my despair at the situation in which we find ourselves and create a monument to one of the most unpatriotic events Britain has ever seen.
View Art : Jason deCaires Taylor
Javier Marín
Javier Marín has developed a solid career as a visual artist for the last 30 years, holding over 90 solo exhibitions and more than 200 collective shows in Mexico, the USA, Canada and countries in South America, Asia and Europe. At the beginning he exclusively used clay; later on he developed pieces in bronze and has gone beyond traditional methods.View Art : Javier Marín
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English artist and a leading art critic of the Victorian era. A multi-faceted individual, he was also a prominent social thinker and writer who wrote on varied subjects. A nature lover, his artworks were often of plants, birds, landscapes and he emphasized on the connections between nature, art, and society in his writings.View Art : John Ruskin
Joseph Turner
Joseph Turner, was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light".View Art : Joseph Turner
Katsushika Hokusai
Although you may not know the name Katsushika Hokusai, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve seen at least one of his works: Under the Wave off Kanagawa (ca. 1830–32), more commonly known as The Great Wave. Arguably the most famous image in all of Japanese art, this iconic woodblock print depicts a huge, frothing wave as it crests over a distant Mount Fuji.View Art : Katsushika Hokusai
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, architecture and is considered one of the greatest painters of all time.View Art : Leonardo da Vinci
Leonor Fini
Born in Buenos Aires to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design, and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film.View Art : Leonor Fini
Maqbool Fida Husain
M.F. Husain was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognized Indian artists of the 20th century and recognised as a printmaker, photographer and filmmaker. His short subject Through the Eyes of a Painter won a Golden Bear in 1967 at the Berlin International Film Festival.View Art : Maqbool Fida Husain
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall flirted with many radical styles. Yet he rejected each of them in succession, remaining committed to figurative and narrative art.View Art : Marc Chagall
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her adult life in France, where she exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt created images with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism.View Art : Mary Cassatt
Max Ernst
Max Ernst was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. German-born Max Ernst was a provocateur, a shocking and innovative artist who mined his unconscious for dreamlike imagery that mocked social conventions. Ernst's artistic vision comes through strongly in his Dada and Surrealists works.View Art : Max Ernst
Mersad Berber
Mersad Berber was the most considerable artist to emerge from the chaos the of Balkan wars of the 1990s. He achieved a degree of international celebrity previously unknown for any artist who came from this region of Europe, with exhibitions in London (Albemarle Gallery), Hamburg, Istanbul, Chicago, Abu Dhabi, Moscow, Madrid, Zurich and New York.View Art : Mersad Berber
Odilon Redon
The greatest of the French symbolists. In 1870 he settled in Paris. Worked at first with charcoal. In 1879, published a first series of lithographs In Dream. In 1884, he took part in the Salon des Indépendants, and in the Salon of the XX in Brussels. A friend of Mallarmé, Francis Jammes, Jean Moréas and Paul Valéry. PicassoHe took up pastels and colour in the 1890s.View Art : Odilon Redon
Otto Dix
Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker best known for his depiction of Weimar Society and the Great War. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. He was a portraitist, he fought in WW1, he was inspired by old masters, he painted what he called 'Life Undiluted'.View Art : Otto Dix
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is always a legend, indeed almost a myth. His Poetry and other written works created by Pablo Picasso, are often overlooked in discussion of his long and varied career. Picasso did not produce any writing himself until the age of 53. In 1935 he ceased painting, drawing and sculpting. Picasso committed himself to the art of poetry and wrote hundreds of poems.View Art : Pablo Picasso
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux's career developed in the shadow of Nazi Germany. It should not come as a surprise then, that his work is known for a distinct sense of anxiety and unease. Delvaux was instead interested in exploring humanity and the hidden recesses of the subconscious. Delvaux used bizarre subject matter rather than abstraction as a means of expressiveness.View Art : Paul Delvaux
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat.View Art : Peter Paul Rubens
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He started out as an apprentice to a porcelain painter and studied drawing in his free time. After years as a struggling painter, Renoir helped launch Impressionism in 1870s. He eventually became one of the most highly regarded artists of his time. He died in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, in 1919.View Art : Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pieter Bruegel
Pieter Bruegel, the elder, specialized in genre paintings populated by peasants, often with a landscape element, but he also painted religious works. Making the life and manners of peasants the main focus of a work was rare in painting in Bruegel's time. His earthy, unsentimental but vivid depiction of the rituals of village life are unique windows on a vanished folk culture.View Art : Pieter Bruegel
Riza Abbasi
Riza Abbasi one of the most celebrated Persian painters. Trained by his father, Riza joined the court of Shah Abbas I in his youth. In 1603, he received the honorific title "Abbasi" from his royal patron but left the court shortly afterward. Riza reportedly preferred the company of wrestlers, libertines, and other "lowlifes" to that of courtiers. He rejoined the royal atelier later.View Art : Riza Abbasi
Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj was an American artist who spent much of his life in England, where he was one of the most prominent figures of the Pop art movement. Before studying at the Royal College of Art, Kitaj had travelled widely and his wide cultural horizons gave him an influential position among his contemporaries, particularly in upholding his preference for figuration.View Art : Ronald Brooks Kitaj
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the twentieth century. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and perhaps most famously, filmmaking. Dali was renowned for his flamboyant personality as much as for his technical virtuosity.View Art : Salvador Dali
Tiziano Vecellio
Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars", Tiziano Vecellio aka Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.View Art : Tiziano Vecellio
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school. The range of Kuniyoshi's subjects included many genres: landscapes, beautiful women, Kabuki actors, cats and mythical animals. He is known for depictions of the battles of legendary samurai heroes.View Art : Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.View Art : Vincent van Gogh
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow. His parents saw him in the future as a lawyer. In 1893 he became Associate Professor of Law Faculty (Moscow University). A thirty-year-old Kandinsky was appointed Professor to the Department of Law (Derpt University), but at this particular time he decided to give up a successful career to devote himself completely to painting.View Art : Wassily Kandinsky
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński did his paintings and drawings in what he called either a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. His first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of "utopian realism" and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.View Art : Zdzisław Beksiński
Zinaida Serebriakova
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was born in the family estate Neskuchnoe in the vicinity of Belgorod. Her father Yevgeni Lanceray was a famous sculptor, her grandfather Nikolai Benois was an academician and chairman of Saint Petersburg Association of Architects, and “Uncle Shura” was an illustrious artist and the founder of the Mir Iskusstva art group.View Art : Zinaida Serebriakova
