Artfinder has just launched its new free app for iPhone and iPod touch - and we’re very excited. It’s going to help you find more museums and galleries near you, find out exactly which exhibitions are on, and give you beautiful visual previews so you can easily choose what you want to visit. Continue reading
You signed up, you collected, and now you can buy! Over the past few months Artfinder users have been furiously collecting and sharing the artworks they love. To celebrate, we’ve collected together 15 of some of the most loved artworks on Artfinder and made them available as prints that you can purchase at our Online Shop from only £15.00 each (plus Free Shipping in the UK). Continue reading
This Saturday we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of the artist Francis Bacon.
Born in Dublin in 1909, Bacon spent the majority of his life working in London, developing a distinct style of figurative painting that has made him one of the most prominent artists of the 20th century. His work is instantly recognisable for its raw, introspective and captivating depiction of the human condition, focusing frequently on themes such as death, crucifixion and the human form. Acclaimed for his paintings of distorted human figures, he is a true modernist who worked at the interstice between abstraction and figuration. He died on the 28th of April, 1992. Continue reading
Sandro Botticelli, 'Primavera' (1478), tempera on panel, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Happy first day of Spring, art lovers! Artfinder is feeling positively radiant today as the Spring Equinox brings all the promises of the new season: longer days, more sunshine (here’s hoping) and the rebirth of nature. Continue reading
Artfinder is very excited to announce that our new Online Shop has now launched, taking us one step closer to allowing more people to easily own affordable and inspiring art. The Online Shop will be a place to discover Limited Edition Prints by well known and emerging artists, and to purchase the art you love in an accessible way.
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Duo in tweed return to haunt streets of London; Gilbert & George opened their new show London Pictures last Thursday at White Cube Bermondsey (8 March), comprising 292 works based on 3712 newsagent poster slogans. Introducing the exhibition, George Passmore admitted to six years of tactically distracting newspaper vendors, while his accomplice Gilbert Proesch swiped the posters. Continue reading
Sir Anthony van Dyck, "Self-Portrait" (1620-21), Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence
Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest exhibition, Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague, 1625-25, presents a highly focused exploration of the seventeenth-century, Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck during the years 1624-25 (ends 27 May, 2012). Van Dyck lived in Italy, and principally Genoa, for six years having moved there in 1621, however this concise exhibition focuses on the relatively un-explored period of his residence in Palermo, Sicily. Continue reading
Song Dong, "Waste Not" (detail) (2005/2009), Installation at New Art Gallery, Walsall, © the artist and Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, courtesy Barbican Art Gallery
We caught up with Chinese conceptual artist Song Dong at the opening of his latest exhibition Waste Not at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. His first solo exhibition in a major UK public gallery, this installation comprises over 10,000 household items hoarded by the artist’s mother over a period of five decades. This work acts like a family portrait, a tribute to his mother and their way of living in the aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Continue reading
Does the thought of Valentine’s Day make you gaze longingly into random strangers’ eyes on the train and gush romantic poetry whilst walking down the street….or does it make you want to watch Dirty Dancing on repeat whilst weeping endlessly into a bottomless tub of cookie dough ice cream? Whatever your thoughts on the much contested holiday, we’ve got the artwork to suit you. Continue reading
