Top 10 – White Artworks

Top 10 – White Artworks

As Winter is upon us and the nights are already closing in, what can be more appropriate than works of art in monochromatic white.  White Artworks are often connected with innocence and perfection as well as cleanliness and neutrality.  It was a symbol of purity in...
Top 10 – Peace Artworks You Should Know

Top 10 – Peace Artworks You Should Know

The horrific events in Paris in 2015 prompted Artlyst to look back at the many artists in the last fifty years who have realised the power of art as a tool in raising awareness and propagating the concept of world peace. Here are our top ten examples of this very...
Top 10 – Skull Works Of Art You Should Know

Top 10 – Skull Works Of Art You Should Know

In this week’s Top 10 theme, Artlyst has searched Art History for the 10 best works of art featuring skulls. Skulls have been used as the symbolic representation of death and mortality throughout history, and each civilisation has maintained a fascination with the...
Top 10 – Artists Under 30 You Should Know

Top 10 – Artists Under 30 You Should Know

Nine years ago, Artlyst compiled a list of 10 Artists under 30. Where are they today? A list of this nature is entirely subjective, as there are over 10,000 graduates from Art schools in the UK alone each year. Here is our international list, and let’s call it...

Top 10 – Brian Sewell Art Attacks

Brian Sewell once called for the Tate director Nicholas Serota to be sacked, citing the exhibition Abracadabra as a “prime example of the hocus-pocus and mumbo jumbo by which the false intellectuals of the art world are able to ‘hey presto!’ anything into art”. Serota...