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Austin Osman Spare
Austin Osman Spare was 17 when his work was featured in the London Royal Academy of Arts’ prestigious Summer Exhibition. He was the youngest artist in the exhibition that year, and journalists descended to ordain the latest youth art prodigy. His style was praised as ‘unparalleled’ by the popular Welsh artist Augustus John, and John Singer Sargent reportedly believed Spare was the greatest draftsman in England. read more
Austin Osman Spare, The Artists
The Etruscans, 400BCE
Chimera of Arezzo
This is an undeniably modern interpretation. The chimera, like most beasts of antiquity, was the bad guy. Child of the giant serpent Typhon and the half woman half snake Echidna (you know her from the Starbucks logo) the Chimera was an abominable thing, unnatural combination of lion and goat, with the head of a snake for a tail. Her brothers and sisters live in legend. read more
Chimera of Arezzo, The Etruscans
Toyen
What's in a name?
Names are assigned to us before we are aware of their meaning, and we grow into them as much as they come to reflect us. In Japan artists often changed names after milestones in their lives, but in the west, once you've been given a name, you're usually stuck with it—a rigidity that makes claiming a new name even more powerful magic. read more
Toyen, The Artists
Sascha Schneider, 1904
Hypnosis
To Sascha Schneider the male body was perfection, and the world its antagonist. Schneider worked in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the development of Freikörperkultur, free body culture, also called the Health and Hygiene movement. Freikörperkultur aimed to counteract the restraint and stress of industrialization with a restorative mix of open air nudity, exercise, and healthy diet. read more
Hypnosis, Sascha Schneider
Born on August 29
Florine Stettheimer, The ArtistsPortrait of Florine Stettheimer

Florine Stettheimer

Non-competitive art for the literati, gay and polyglot

1871 – 1944
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The ArtistsPortrait of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Guardian of the old ways

1780 – 1867

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