Jan Toorop (1858 – 1928) ranks alongside Van Gogh and Mondrian as one of the most important Dutch artists of the period around 1900. All three took their bearings from the latest international

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...

Figurehead conceptual artist Jan Dibbets is exhibiting this spring at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Dibbets is showing his latest series, entitled Horizons and based on his Sectio Aurea (1972), a work

The show tells the professional life story of these inspired and travel-hungry ceramic artists through more than sixty of their works

The powerful oeuvre of Belgian Expressionist James Ensor (1860-1949) is a complete masquerade: a crazy procession of grotesque figures, masked faces, daubed female visages, skeletons and giant

 

Comprising layer upon layer of fired glaze, the surfaces of Morten Løbner Espersen’s (b. 1965, Aalborg) internationally renowned ceramic objects are a riotous array of colours and textures. The

In the brief period between 1885 and the outbreak of war in 1914 painting in the Low countries experienced a modern Renaissance. Colour was liberated from the chains of visual reality. Suddenly, grass

43.1 White symbolises innocence and chastity and is the colour of supreme purity. Angels wear white robes, Christening gowns are white and, since the Renaissance, brides from noble families have...