Room & Placement
Hanging Art in Hallways, Stairwells and Entryways
The stairwell rule that keeps a climbing group straight, why hallway art belongs on one wall only, and how to beat the glare that ruins both.
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Famous Paintings
Édouard Manet’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Scandals, barmaids, and picnics that outraged Paris: the ten works that made Manet the reluctant father of modern painting.
Meaning & Story
The Gold in Klimt's The Kiss
Real metal leaf, a gold engraver's son, and a set of Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna — how the most famous gold surface in painting was made.
Famous Paintings
Wassily Kandinsky’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
From fairy-tale riders to floating circles: ten works that trace how Kandinsky talked himself out of painting things and into painting feeling.
Room & Placement
Art for Small Rooms and Awkward Walls
Why one large piece beats three small ones, how to measure a wall that has a door or a thermostat in the way, and what to do with slots, slopes and corners.
Famous Paintings
Paul Klee’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Angels, fish, floating balloons and grids of color: ten works by the twentieth century’s most inventive and least pompous modernist.
Famous Paintings
J.M.W. Turner’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Fire, shipwreck, moonlight and Venetian haze: the ten pictures that made Turner the greatest painter of weather in Western art.
Movements
What Is Impressionism?
The movement that made painting a record of light rather than of subject — who started it, when, and the five things to look for.
Formats
Canvas vs Framed Prints: Which Should You Choose?
Canvas suits painterly images and relaxed rooms; a frame suits photography, detail and formal walls. The differences that actually decide it.
Famous Paintings
John Singer Sargent’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Scandalous society portraits, a lantern-lit garden, a flamenco dancer and a war memorial: the ten works that define Sargent.
Famous Paintings
Eugène Delacroix’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Revolution, shipwreck, lion hunts and Moroccan horsemen: the ten paintings that made Delacroix the leader of French Romanticism.
Comparisons
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Friendship That Exploded
Nine weeks in a small yellow house in Arles, and the night it ended — plus how two painters who worked side by side made such completely different pictures.