Artists Liberation – sell your art online 31 March 201123 June 2022Matthew Moss Comment Is selling ones art online practicable WITH THE EMERGENCE OF CAPITALISM IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE the figure of the intermediary became important in [...]
The joys and hazards of buying at auction 27 February 20111 December 2020Matthew Moss Comment Commissions add considerably to what you finally pay. Forming an old master collection need not necessarily be expensive and it is, happily, one [...]
Rembrandt, Old Master Superstar 28 December 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment Living in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art. “Mom, does dad really need to be a painter?” In 1630 Rembrandt’s etched [...]
Where are the Women Old Masters? 29 November 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment One suggestion is that they are buried beneath a mountain of good and not so good male Old Masters; the truth is, female [...]
Planning your Museum Visit 27 October 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment DURING THE BOOM YEARS OF THE 1980-90s. there was a vast expansion in the size of art museums the world over. It ranged [...]
Collaborative Art 28 September 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment VERY FEW ARTISTS WHO VENTURE into the field of politics, be they ever so famous, emerge unscathed. The Greek sculptor Phidias (c.480 – [...]
Caravaggio: mad, bad, and dangerous to know 30 August 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment Mad, Bad, and Dangerous Artists THAT MOURNFUL PHRASE, uttered by Lady Caroline Lamb to describe her spasimante Lord George Byron is one, had [...]
Travels with My Art 30 July 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment SHIPPING YOUR PAINTINGS if you are an artist exhibiting your work at a gallery some distance from your home or even abroad can [...]
Rembrandt’s Dark Secrets 29 June 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment Art historians – perennially on the outside looking in – have, starting with Giorgio Vasari in 1550, loved to give the Old Masters [...]
Caring for your Paintings 28 May 20105 November 2020Matthew Moss Comment Is your contemporary painting more temporary than you think? Is the title to an early 1960s art-conservation guide that has always amused the [...]