20th century – Page 2

Art in detail

When Dali painted this picture, Spain was in Civil War between the Republicans and the Nationalists. The latter won when […]

To be honest, I had never heard of the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. I came across his work by […]

When I worked in Belgium a couple of years ago, we visited the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper. It […]

Klimt captured a sensuous side of Adele rarely seen elsewhere. He even got her to smile, despite a life rife […]

Painted in the London Zoo; ‘When I was painting him, I saw [that] this is a wild, isolated fellow, almost […]

Widely considered Hopper’s most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.