A cat obsession? Louis Wain

    An artist I recently found is Louis Wain. He is particularly known for his drawings/paintings of cats. This may sound quite dull at first, but the interesting thing is that this English artist had Schizophrenia and some psychologists believe that you can see this in his artwork!   He lived between 1860 and …

Art in Buddhism

Many people know about Christian art, but Buddhist art as a whole, is not so well-known despite the fact that it is one of the six main religions of the world. Buddhist art came about around 500-300BCE and over time has spread all over Asia. Although Buddhism did not emerge till around 500 BCE, it …

Caught Yellow Handed

Some of you may have heard about the vandalism that occurred at the Tate Modern last weekend. The victim was a Rothko painting called ‘Black on Maroon’ and it was part of a series named the Seagram murals. The culprit had written “a potential piece of ‘Yellowism’.” The culprit has in fact come forward as …

The Noble, and the Webster

I found two more artists this year that I have loved. These two artists actually work together and they are called Tim Noble and Sue Webster. They create interesting shadows from objects they have made out of everyday things like rubbish. They have even been known to use taxidermy creatures in their artwork. Now you …

Janet Judge- a quick thought

Finding artists for research can be a very difficult task. For my current project I have found it near impossible at times. However, it is so satisfying when you accidentally come across an artist that you love, especially when you find them on holiday like I found Janet Judge on my holiday to Cornwall. Janet …

olympic art in the park

The Olympics have arrived and as I write this, I see that we have just won our 20th gold medal. I have managed to visit the Olympic park in London and I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and being dressed in the GB’s flag. However, I am no sports writer and today I’m actually blogging about …