Firelei Báez has been busy. The artist’s first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, the international mega-gallery that started ...

How a folding of time into gesture and process combine in paintings that wrestle with the disjunction between reality and ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

Audiovisual art is changing rapidly ... to 1970s Materialist Cinema’s highly political demand to reject the “illusionistic” conventions of mainstream realist film. Nor should they have ...

Masterpiece is a complex term. Its meaning has changed dramatically over time, giving it an entirely new definition in modern ...

One of the basic stories of Western art, recounted by Pliny the Elder, involves a competition between two famous ancient Greek artists, Zeuxis and Parasius, to see who could create the most ...

This arresting image of the Virgin and Christ Child presents a tantalising example of illusionistic painting. The canvas or parchment on which the artist appears to have been painting, seems ...

A pioneer in painting, Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray ...

Created at the height of Dutch expansionism, paintings such as two still lifes by Willem Kalf (1619-1693) demonstrate the high skill achieved in illusionistic oil painting, while also representing the ...

“..Like many others, Schalcken drew on the illusionistic skills and wide-ranging store of motifs current among exponents of Leiden ‘fine’ painting; yet he ...