Tulips might be best associated with spring, but they’ve just started to reappear on florists’ stands across Britain, bringing some colour and light to these dark months …
Nature isn’t always presented naturalistically in art. As our relationship with nature changes, so too do the ways in which look at artworks. The Age of Nature gallery at the museum turns the focus towards humanity as part of …
The fine details of art history sometimes needs unpicking for us mere mortals, but here’s a refreshing example of a display where the story is pretty clear – how Bernat Klein used an abstract oil painting …
The decoration on this vase is all about illusion. Taking something three-dimensional, like a flowering plant, and compressing that not only into a two-dimensional drawing, but also then imprinting it on a curved surface …
At first glimpse you might think this is a 17th-century flower painting. But closer inspection reveals it’s a photo montage of a load of old rubbish. The artist collected trash …
