Hokusai’s 'The Great Wave' is the most famous image in Japanese art, not to mention an iOS emoji 🌊. Take a look at the early sketches that reveal his growing mastery of nature motifs.
Martin Kemp, described by The Times as ‘the world’s leading authority on Leonardo' relates his fifty-year relationship with the most famous artist of all time.
The crisis post Second World War forms the backdrop to Tate Britain’s exploration of a century of painting the human experience. It’s also at the heart of Martin Gayford’s book 'Modernists and Mavericks', in which he describes vividly the friendships and rivalries that defined the London art scene in the middle decades of the 20th century.
Jasper Rees speaks to Martin Gayford, art critic for The Spectator, about Bacon, Freud, 'the school of London Painters', and his book, 'Modernists and Mavericks'.
Plywood is synonymous with flat-pack furniture or stacks of boards on a building site, but its remarkable versatility has made it indispensable in products from planes, cars and boats to architecture and furniture.