• Koak

    Koak

    Koak’s figures are built less by contour than by color. Skin, hair, and negative space often…

  • Tomoo Gokita

    Tomoo Gokita

    Tomoo Gokita works almost entirely in black, white, and the grays between, and that restriction is…

  • Tintoretto & Visual Dominance

    Tintoretto & Visual Dominance

    Tintoretto builds visual dominance through motion rather than stillness. His compositions are driven by violent diagonals…

  • Eye Tracking

    Eye Tracking

    These images show real eye-tracking data collected from viewers looking at paintings: heatmaps showing where attention…

  • Visual Dominance

    Visual Dominance

    Visual dominance — sometimes called visual emphasis — is the principle that not every element in…

  • Hokusai: View of Mt. Fuji

    Hokusai: View of Mt. Fuji

    These prints come from Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, and together they’re a clear lesson…

  • Ryan Bock

    Ryan Bock

    Ryan Bock — who works under the name Bockhaus — paints and draws almost exclusively in…

  • Goya and the Changing Image

    Goya and the Changing Image

    These prints don’t arrive on the page fully formed. Alongside each finished etching are the loose…

  • Matthew Palladino: Warping The Grid

    Matthew Palladino: Warping The Grid

    Matthew Palladino is an American painter and printmaker who builds many of his compositions on a…

  • Heather Gwen Martin: Abstractions

    Heather Gwen Martin: Abstractions

    Heather Gwen Martin works in bold, hand-mixed color, building large-scale abstractions from shapes that stay just…