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From humble beginnings to the contemporary engineering of today, the camera has come a long way in a relatively short space of time....

In every art practice, there is a language built around its theory and mechanism. This ever-expanding glossary outlines some key terms...

You may not recognise her name at first, but you'll almost certainly recognise her art. The Rider–Waite–Smith Deck (also known as the...

Generally speaking, the words modern and contemporary are synonymous in the English language, both describing the neoteric or...

A photographic typology is a body of work that visually explores a theme or subject to draw out similarities and differences for...

How do we interpret the difference between what we see and what we read? If you have ever greeted an enigmatic instance of graffiti with...

Pale wings extended, a giant, auburn-haired angel in a heavenly frock outstretches her hands in a gesture of protection, covertly guiding...

In the midst of what we now call the Aesthetic Movement, James Abbot McNeil Whistler exemplified the concept of art for art's sake, a...

From the Wright Flyer to the Airbus A380, significant advancements in aviation align with some of the most important milestones in human...

Marie Jeannette de Lange was a Dutch amateur painter and reform dress advocate. Born in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies in 1865,...

In Ancient Greece, Pliny the Elder recorded a story in the Naturalis Historia about a competition held between two artists - Zeuxis of...

Born in 1855 in London, Evelyn de Morgan is considered to be either a late Pre-Raphaelite or an English Symbolist. She grew up in an...