Why Vincent van Gogh considered his 1889 masterpiece to be a failure
Everyone’s a critic. Especially yourself.
Paintings
Adolf Wölfli: Does outsider art exploit or uplift the vulnerable?
Exploitation, celebration, or both?
Occult paintings and mystical visions of female surrealist Ithell Colquhoun
Visionary paintings rooted in ritual, automatism, and mystical symbolism.
Death on canvas: the crash series by Fernando Gómez Balbontín
Car crash art by Fernando Gómez Balbontín.
‘Hell is Empty’ and the Trumps are here: New paintings by Sig waller
November 2019: Artist Sig Waller garnered considerable praise and caused some controversy when she exhibited a few of her latest paintings at the annual Saarland…
Slumscapes: Post-apocalyptic paintings of a devastated Disneyland
Looking at Jeff Gillette’s post-apocalyptic paintings of shanty towns and garbage strewn slums juxtaposed with a ruined and decrepit Disneyland kinda makes you think he…
In the Flesh: Beautifully grotesque paintings of the human condition
‘Transition 2.’ Horacio Quiroz’s paintings are inspired by his observations of himself and the people around him. These observations form a “a deep inspection of…
The Devil’s in the brushstroke: Lurid paintings of monsters, nightmares & demons for Mexican pulps
We have their paintings, their names, and that’s about it. Araujo, Dorantes, Fzavala, Marin, Pérez, Luna, and Ortiz. Many more just disappeared or have been…