Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Stag (marionette for King Stag) 1918. Museum für Gestaltung, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich. Decorative Arts Collection. Photograph courtesy of Umberto Romito and Ivan Suta.

Although artists have long painted out of doors to create preparatory landscape sketches or studies, before the nineteenth century finished pictures would not have been made in this way. The plein air ...

Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked ...

Alfred Sisley (; French: [sislɛ]; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was ...

I’m Jane Kennedy and I’m the Records Manager at Tate. I enjoy researching the places where I live and work, focusing particularly on aspects of Westminster’s history. From the continuing account in ...

Explore how artists use marks and colour to suggest motion or make kinetic, performance and video art to explore movement ...

Born 1923 in Los Angeles, United States of America. Died 2009 in Baarlo, Netherlands. Shinkichi Tajiri, a child of first-generation immigrants to the USA from Japan, spent his childhood in Los Angeles ...