Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a man of boundless ambition. He made himself one of the greatest masters of modern art and resolutely pioneered the path towards abstraction. In January 1912 he moved to

While in the early years, the colour palette of many of the underglaze paintings was limited to cobalt blue tones, over the years the Danish factories perfected the chemical composition of other...

The switch to underglaze painting posed not only technical and artistic challenges but also a chemical one. At Royal Copenhagen, it was the chemical engineer, Adolphe Clement (1860-1933), who...

Light is created by means of colour against a black, white or coloured ground. Steven Aalders (b. 1959) produces paintings that are simple in form but complex in their handling of colour. They are

This small presentation will combine the work of pointillists like Toorop, Signac and Van Rysselberghe with that of 18th-century glass engravers Greenwood, Wolff and Schoumans and 17th-century

In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furore in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings

Flaming June, the glorious canvas painted by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) in around 1895, and five fabulous pictures by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) are the highlights of an extraordinary

Cézanne is the ‘father of modern art’. Ironically, the painter who frequently found himself turned down for the Paris salons is now regarded as one of the most important artists of his day. Picasso