Since the 1980s female artists have transformed figurative painting. Their portraits address contemporary social problems and issues concerning gender, religion, racism and sexuality, and respond to

Although Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) and Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) were both in touch with the Surrealists in the 1930s, the two artists never met. Despite this, their work displays striking

He was born in Cavtat, Croatia, lived in America, Paris, Zagreb and Prague, and spent extended periods in England and Vienna. Wherever talented painter Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) settled, he soon

Hague Court Fashions

Unbelievably long trains, glittering gold and silver embroidery, pastel-coloured ball gowns with costly lace from the Belle Epoque… The exhibition Hague Court Fashions sheds a

At first sight, the Roaring Twenties seem a world away from the Flemish countryside in the aftermath of the First World War. But if you listen carefully, you can hear the strains of jazz crossing the

Sharp angles, disconcerting perspectives, restrictive framing. Artist Max Beckmann used all kinds of techniques to manipulate space in his paintings. The painted surface was his domain. Painting

Since her first exhibitions at New York’s Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960 and 1962, the work of the American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) has occupied an entirely individual place in contemporary art

Wouter van Riessen (1967) is a multitalented artist who paints, draws, photographs, collaborates in stage productions and makes music. His main product is self-portraits, in which he sometimes depicts