These are difficult times for everyone – but art thrives in a crisis, says Rebecca Salter PRA, as we launch a new series of artists and architects documenting their creativity in isolation. Read more As part of our season exploring artists’ studios, we asked the artists of the 2017 Summer Exhibition – from Royal Academicians to first-time exhibitors – to give us a peep inside their working space, and to share their secrets for a successful studio practice. Read more From time immemorial, handwritten correspondence has ranked among the most intimate and vibrant modes of human communication. To the letter writer, an unfilled folio is an empty receptacle, a vessel waiting to be infused with idle observations, snarky gossip, confessions of love, political speculations, soul-searching reflections, warm thanks, or whatever else might spring to mind. From Tate Liverpool’s new Duveen commission to the World Press Photo Exhibition: everything worth seeing this week. Read more As the Academy stages a show of Peter Cook RA’s drawings to mark his 80th birthday, Kate Goodwin asks the architect about his vision for urban ways of life. Read more

In his early years, his paintings depicted colorful scenes of blue hues, whereas later it turned to blue-green hues that often depicted scenes of impoverished peoples. Although he qualified as a court administrator after studying law in Paris in 1887, in 1889 he started to paint while recovering from a bout of appendicitis at home and then made the rather unpopular decision to pursue art full time. He started out by creating his typography artworks from hand-cut paper. Later, he switched to laser cutting, which gave him more freedom in choosing his materials and allowed him to experiment with larger-scale projects. Depending on the piece you might find yourself having realizations and coming to terms with certain feelings. As Leonard Manasseh becomes our first centenarian Royal Academician, his cousin, the architectural historian Timothy Brittain-Catlin, takes a look at a career of over 80 years. Read more

The book owes its existence to the unmistakable handwriting of minimalist painter Ad Reinhardt, whose flowing, calligraphic phrases seamlessly blend emphatic lines and breezy arcs.

Royal Academician Frank Bowling discusses his working practices, his desire to make “pure painting” and the changing reactions to his work throughout his lifetime. Read more Many people find that this artist does an excellent job of making you look directly at the words above all else. Often, he would paint the same scene over many times to capture the changing of seasons. However, he also painted portraits, most notably of his wife Camille Doncieux in The Woman in the Green Dress. Hand lettering projects are used in various ways. Some use it for crafting or scrapbooking while others use it for designing logos. If you’re in need of a great letterer, graphic designer or illustrator, the online world is brimming with them. Explore the first ever winter Summer Exhibition like never before and discover a myriad of works by household names and emerging artists inside this virtual tour. Read moreWhile attending both institutes she grew more and more uninspired by her instructors traditional leaning towards realism. After being exposed to oriental art he thoughts moved towards finding her own style and began to move away from traditional art.

See essays on the art press by Julie Codell and Ysanne Holt and on artists’ participation and promotion in the art market by Malcom Warner on John Everett Millais, Brenda Rix on William Holman Hunt, and Patricia de Montfort on James MacNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in ( Fletcher and Helmreich 2011). Along with Andre Derain he is credited as being one of the leaders of the Fauvist movement that used often unnatural colors to display emotion.Take a look inside the 250th Summer Exhibition in this video with coordinator Grayson Perry RA, as he shows us some of his highlights of this year’s show. Read more At the end of the day, Ruscha does an excellent job of bringing together words and art to create something truly amazing.

Edvard Munch was born in 1863 Norway the son of a priest. After enrolling as an engineer in 1879, he learned scaling and how to draw until an illness disrupted his studies and he dropped out, later pursuing painting instead. Phyllida Barlow RA’s bulbous sculptures, Robert Cuoghi’s messiah machines and Damien Hirst’s demons – here are ten highlights of this year’s contemporary art spectacular. Read more Conceptual artist Mel Bochner has been active since the 1960s, starting practices that are now taken for granted, such as using gallery walls as a canvas for his work. A highly versatile artist, Bochner works with painting, installation art, and photography. His thesaurus paintings show overlapping synonyms executed in rainbow colors, while other pieces often take a single word, repeated for effect. Language is a powerful tool. And no one understands that better than artists who thoughtfully utilizetext to make a statement and draw out emotion. By using text as the central communication vehicle in their artistic expression, these artists push forth letters, numbers, and words as their primary means to get out their message.

Throughout his life, he was plagued by mental health issues, going in and out of psychiatric hospitals, one instance occurring after he severed his own ear which he is now infamous for. Eventually his mental health issues caught up to him and he died of suicide in 1890.