Tell me which painter you can't stop returning to, and I'll tell you something about your inner weather. A short essay on temperament — and a six-question test to find your match.

Six short questions to discover which old master matches your spirit. A curatorial play from Zocine Art.

Between 1897 and 1918, the city of Vienna produced more world-shaping art and ideas than any single European city had produced in any twenty-one-year period since Renaissance Florence. The painter Gustav Klimt founded the Secession in 1897 — a breakaway exhibition society that rejected the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus and declared a new union of painting, architecture, design, and craft. By 1908 Egon Schiele was painting his first major Expressionist canvases. In Prague,

In September 1848, seven young men met in a London studio and decided that English painting was finished. The Royal Academy taught a manner descended from Raphael — idealised figures, brown varnish, sentimental subjects. The seven painters — Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti among them — agreed that painting needed to go back before Raphael, to the bright colour, hard outline, and uncompromising detail of fifteenth-century Italian and Flemish art. They

Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night from a barred window. The room was on the second floor of the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he had checked himself in seven weeks before. The view was a wheat field, a few hills, and the village of Saint-Rémy. The cypress on the left of the painting is real; it stood outside his window. The night sky he painted is not. Starry Night is the second most reproduced painting in Western art after the Mona Lisa. M

She is not a portrait. The girl in Vermeer's most famous painting is a tronie — a Dutch Golden Age genre study of a face wearing exotic costume, not a likeness of a real sitter. The painting is roughly 18×15 inches on canvas. The 'pearl' is almost certainly not a pearl. And no one knows for certain who she was. Painted around 1665, Girl with a Pearl Earring has become the most reproduced Northern painting after Rembrandt's late self-portraits. What looks at first like a quiet

Klimt painted The Kiss in 1907–1908 at the height of his golden phase. Meaning, symbolism, gold-leaf technique, and why it became modern art's most reproduced image.

Curator-approved ways to bring Botticelli, Rembrandt, Hiroshige, Rousseau and Klimt into a modern bedroom. With specific print recommendations for each.

Gustav Klimt - The Embrace (1907) Gustav Klimt, born on July 14, 1862, in Austria, was a symbolist painter and a crucial figure in the Vienna Secession movement. His life was marked by a dedication to art and a continuous evolution of style, culminating in his most famous period, the "Golden Phase". Klimt's early life was modest, growing up in a family with limited means. His undeniable talent led him to the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, where he developed his skills. Ini

In the realm of art history, few images capture the essence of love and intimacy as poignantly as Gustav Klimt's "The Embrace" (1907)....

Gustav Klimt's "Death and Life" (1910), available as a print, is a significant work in the Symbolist movement. This painting illustrates...

Gustav Klimt's "Bauernhaus in Buchberg," created in 1911, is a testament to his mastery in the Art Nouveau style. This painting, likely...

Gustav Klimt's "Eugenia Primaversi" (1913) is a vibrant example of the Art Nouveau period. This portrait likely illustrates Klimt's...

Gustav Klimt's "Woman with Fan" (1917) is an exquisite representation of his late Art Nouveau style. The painting showcases Klimt's...