• Mystery of Picasso

    Mystery of Picasso

    Le Mystère Picasso (1956), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, films Picasso drawing and painting from behind a…

  • Matisse: Moroccan Sketchbooks

    Matisse: Moroccan Sketchbooks

    These drawings come from Matisse’s sketchbooks during his 1912–13 stays in Tangier, made in ink directly…

  • Albrecht Durer: Drawing Devices

    Albrecht Durer: Drawing Devices

    “There is yet another method of copying an object and of rendering it larger or smaller…

  • Process: Studies by Bronzino, Tintoretto, Titian, Carpaccio & Durer

    Process: Studies by Bronzino, Tintoretto, Titian, Carpaccio & Durer

    A selection of paired images — finished paintings alongside the drawings and studies that led to…

  • Michelangelo: B-Sides

    Michelangelo: B-Sides

    A set of lesser-seen Michelangelo sheets — pages that mix figure study with poetry, architecture, and…

  • 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…