Gone are the days when hangings, plants, and crockery used to be decor elements for the home. Now, more and more people are adopting wall art in the form of paintings as a part of the decor. And while ...
The beauty of wall paintings is not lost just modernised. From digital art to age-old watercolour paintings, here are 5 themes that would look perfect on every wall in your home. There are numerous ...
When you gaze at a painting on the wall of an art museum or gallery, you might think of the artist who made it. But the painting may not have gone straight from the master’s brush to the museum ...
'Priceless' Mayan wall paintings discovered in a house in Guatemala blend indigenous techniques with colonial-era Spanish motifs, researchers have revealed. The artworks — thought to date back to ...
It was two weeks before the bat mitzvah, and the family was having a small crisis: The front wall of the Aspen Chapel, the backdrop to the bat mitzvah ceremony, just wouldn’t do. So the father asked ...
Originally the walls of the Abbey would have been whitened and coloured in red lines with rosettes. A fragment of this design was seen in the early 20th century, hidden behind a blocked recess at the ...
Knowledge about pigments applied in ancient wall paintings is of great importance in art conservation and art history. In this study, fifteen pigment samples from the wall painting on the ...
JEFF WALL, PHOTOGRAPHER: Because I was so interested in other art forms like painting and, to some extent, film, it seemed to me that photographs were too small, that something in them, in the medium ...