THE 50 MASTERWOKS OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTING  - Be by symbolic, aesthetic, practical or economic reasons, the truth is that Painting has always been humanity's favourite and most usesd artistic medium, and the one that more has affected to the conscience of the universal society. Nobody doubts, for example, that the visual image... theartwolf's most viewed article - read more

MOST VALUABLE PRIVATE ART - This list highlights the most valuable paintings still in private hands, divided in three categories (old masters, impressionist & modern, and contemporary) You will not find nothing like this in the Internet. ... published June 2008 - read more

SAVED MASTERPIECES - UK KEEPS OLD MASTERS PAINTINGS - In recent years, the British Government has adopted some measures to avoid that the most important old masters paintings still in private British collections could be sold to a foreign... published March 2008 - read more

PRIVATE TREASURES - TOP 10 PRIVATE ART COLLECTIONS - Not all the Art masterworks are exhibited in the great museums of the world. Some of them belong to private Art collectors. theartwolf has created a top 10 of these private museums ... published March 2008 - read more

ART MARKET 2007 REVIEW - A brief review of the Art market for year 2007, with the stars of the season and the main successes and disappointments, from Rothko to the most expensive antiquity ever sold at auction ... published December 2007 - read more

19th CENTURY RUSSIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING - The Russian landscape remains quite unknown in Western Europe and America, especially if compared with another movements as the Barbizon School...    published october 2007 - read more

NATURE MORTE - 10 GREAT STILL LIFE PAINTINGS - The genre of the Still Life through 10 great paintings, from the antiquity to the contemporary. How we would define a still life? Academically, we could say that a still-life... published september 2007 - read more

FRESH MONEY, OLD STONES - WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE ANTIQUITIES The Antiquities market is by far the most intriguing and unknown of the whole Art market world. In fact, in can even be the perfect place for criminals, smugglers... published July 2007 - read more

THE ARTIST AND THE MIRROR: 10 SELF-PORTRAITS The genre of the self-portrait was born, of course, in the Renaissance, when the History of Art became the History of Artists. Since then, the self-portraits have turned into one of the richest and most fascinating genres of the history of the painting. In this article, we have selected ten of the best... published June 2007 - read more

ART MARKET - MOST EXPENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS EVER SOLD After the lists featuring the top 10 most expensive paintings and the more recent top 10 most expensive sculptures, now it's time for another Art discipline: Photography... published May 2007 - read more

20 (AND MORE) MUSEUMS YOU SHOULD KNOW Which are the best museums of the Western World? While such list is entirely subjective, I have tried to be as objective as I can be, taking in consideration their collections and also... published January 2007 - read more

ART MARKET - MOST EXPENSIVE SCULPTURES EVER SOLD While working on the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold I noticed that a lot of lists about that subject were displayed in many other websites -though most...  published November 2006 - read more

ART IS FREE... BUT NOT AT MUSEUMS - The raise of Museum's admission fees. One of the most publicized ideas by all the Ministries of Culture, Museum Patronages and similar is to approach the Art to the great public. Nevertheless, and..   published October 2006 -  read more

MOST WANTED ART - THE GREATEST ART THEFTS - Considering the spectacular prices paid in recent times for the works by the greatest names of the history of Art, it's not very surprising that these masterworks have turning into...   published October 2006 -  read more

ART MARKET - MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS EVER SOLD There are a lot of lists in Internet talking about "the 10 most expensive paintings ever sold", or something like that. But unfortunately, most of these lists are incorrect, often being obsoletes, or just... published September 2006 -  read more

IMPRESSIONIST URBAN LANDSCAPES IN PARIS, 1860-1900  - In the second half of the 19th century, the city of Paris suffered a group of reforms that affected to its interior morphology, with the aim of transform the French capital into... published August 2006 -  read more

FROM TURNER TO DIEBENKORN - 10 GREAT SEASCAPES The sea and its pictorial representation have been one of the most developed art genres since many centuries ago. From the classical, serene seascapes... published June 2006 -  read more

SUGGESTIONS: 10 WORKS FOR 10 MUSEUMS In the last years -more accurately, in the last decades- the art market has suffered a radical change in its protagonists. The economical recuperation, added to the boom in the popularity of... published April 2006 -  read more

A TASTE FOR THE LANDSCAPE - HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL Take a look on this painting: there are two men at the top of the rocks, contemplating a fantastic fluvial valley, studded with rocks, shrubs and waterfalls. In first plane, a majestic tree..  published March 2006 -  read more

ART MARKET REVIEW - MOST WANTED PAINTINGS Which privately owned paintings are the most desired by the art market? The question is very simple. However, the answer is not so. The Art critics say A. The dealers say B. The... published February 2006 -  read more

SKYSCRAPERS: PRESENT AND FUTURE - Federico García Lorca said that there is nothing more poetic and terrible as the battle between a skyscraper and the sky. In fact, this architectonical typology, in addition to its logical... published October 2006 -  read more

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW - FAKE ARCHITECTURE - Look at the two pictures on the left: they depict two contemporary, well-known and generally admired three-dimensional artworks. The first of them is a work by an architect. The second one, a work by a sculptor... published September 2006 -  read more

SPANISH NEW ARCHITECTURE - BEYOND THE HYPE - A few weeks ago I read with surprise and happiness about the exhibition about Spanish contemporary architecture that the MOMA will held in the next months. But in the last days... published February 2006 -  read more

DESTRICTED FILMS - ART AND PROVOCATION - Art and sex. A good mixture, isn't it? If you like the idea (and if you already have the legal age to attend these subjects) perhaps you would like to take a look to DESTRICTED... published August 2006 -  read more

GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST CINEMA - FROM CALIGARI TO METROPOLIS After theWorld War I and until the arising of the Nazism at the beginning of the 1930s, Germany was the birthplace of a new movie style based in the... published February 2006 -  read more

ROLLING ART - THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL CARS EVER CREATED - What is Art and what is not? At the time of considering a discipline as Art or as no-Art, we have to admit that a perfect... published in January 2008 -  lee más

NEW SEVEN WONDERS - THE DECISSION IS YOURS - "Our heritage is our future". With this premise, the "New Seven Wonders Club" has created the first-ever global vote to elect the New Seven Wonders of the world, in an online... published March 2006 -  read more