Whistlejacket by George Stubbs Whistlejacket is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1762 by the British artist George Stubbs showing the Marquess of Rockingham’s racehorse against a neutral background. Measuring 292cm… Topics: British Art, conversation piece, equine art, George Stubbs
Angel of the North Gateshead is home to a sculpture of monumental proportions right next to the A1. It is called the Angel of the North and is the… Topics: Angel of the North, Antony Gormley, British Art, conversation piece, Sculpture
Richter’s Betty – a conversation piece Having dealt with consumer culture, war destruction, naziism and euthanasia, it may neither be the greatest work by Gerhard Richter nor the one intended to… Topics: Abstract art, conversation piece, Gerhard Richter, German art, portraiture
Kluge’s royal group portrait Recently, a large life-scale group portrait has been painted for the Danish Royal family, and titled Royal Family (Kongehuset). It is exactly what it says… Topics: conversation piece, Danish art, Hyperrealism, Thomas Kluge
Artist Meryl Donoghue Using strangeness as a potent spice in her art, Meryl Donoghue wants her work to be seductive and unnerving at the same time. The artist… Topics: art, artist, British Art, conversation piece, Meryl Donoghue
Gottfried Helnwein – Epiphany I – adoration of the Magi Here is a piece of work that will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the best conversation pieces in art. In 1996 it… Topics: art, artist, Austrian art, conversation piece, Hyperrealism
The Ron Mueck sculpture ‘boy’ Boy is the result of 8 months of heavy grafting, and the nearly 5 metres tall squatting boy is made of glass fibre. While that… Topics: ARoS, art, artist, British Art, conversation piece, Museum, Ron Mueck, Sculpture
