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A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief that drawing and design – not painting – were the wellspring of all great art.
Thirteen artists with ancestral lands in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean are subverting the role drawing has played in conquest and colonialism.
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia pays tribute to one of Australia’s most beloved children’s television icons.
‘Queer’ is a word often used to describe Edward Gorey’s mysterious, spooky art. So why is it so hard to acknowledge the artist behind them was queer as well?
Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to draw the rebels as they stood trial, leaving behind an invaluable record.
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy – make it entirely within the realm of possibility.
This beautifully realised exhibition reveals the wit, warmth and artistic skill that made Raymond Briggs so beloved by children and adults alike.
The genre – also known as ‘folk art’ or ‘outsider art’ – serves as a reminder that art is a universal human pursuit.
Whereas ‘the camera sees everything, but captures nothing,’ courtroom artists can channel the emotional highs and lows of a trial through a single image.
Chat to your child while they draw, or learn about a new artistic style together.
With his delightful drawings for children’s books, the British illustrator has helped to promote and preserve a rich graphic arts heritage in the UK.
Studying in London, the young artist examined the human figure, animals in the zoo and the rich cross-section of theatre life and of life on the streets.
Tiny drawings, such as knights riding snails, and random lines and squiggles were common in medieval books.
The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
I have been re-drawing my data to make visible what Strava cannot. The unheroic stuff: emotions, persistent thoughts, body sensations, lyrics from the songs, the weather.
Their drawings and paintings often express a mix of horror, fear, hope and beauty.
I’m a keen doodler who turned a hobby into a PhD and then a career. I’ve also seen what hurdles people face when it comes to learning to draw and how they can be overcome.
ACMI’s first feature exhibition since its redevelopment shows fans the complex artistry behind their childhood favourites.
One scholar spent a decade studying the ways everyday people drew, carved, glued, sewed and baked their own pornography.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, Adelaide University ; University of Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
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Burke and Elizabeth High Baker Professor of Child Developmental Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Penn State
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Casual academic, Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor of Evolutionary Studies, Professor of African Prehistory, University of Bergen
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University
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Lecturer of Film and Television, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Investigator, SapienCE - Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader in Drawing, Leeds Beckett University; Independent Social Research Foundation