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The Solis Prints Journal

Journal

Essays, profiles, and notes on art history.

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913. Oil on canvas. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Abstract Art

What Is Abstract Art? A Beginner's Guide

Claude Monet, Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Art History

Monet's Gardens: Painting the Same Subject a Hundred Times

Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515. Woodcut. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Art History

How Printmaking Works: How One Carved Block Multiplies Into Thousands

Hector Guimard, Porte Dauphine Metro entrance, Paris. Cast iron and glass, c. 1900.

Art History

Art Nouveau: When Nature Took Over Design

Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (world map), 1572. The first modern atlas.

Antique Maps

Maps as Art: The Beauty of Early Cartography

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897-98. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art History

Gauguin in Tahiti: The Paintings He Made by Leaving Paris Behind

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, Song dynasty. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Art History

Silk: The Thread That Connected Empires

Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509-1511. Fresco. Apostolic Palace, Vatican.

Art History

The Renaissance in Five Paintings

Kitagawa Utamaro, Three Beauties of the Present Day, c. 1793. Colour woodblock print.

Art History

Ukiyo-e: The 250-Year Japanese Print Tradition That Influenced Monet

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Night Watch, 1642. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Art History

Rembrandt: Self-Portraits and the Invention of the Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, 1891. Colour lithograph. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art History

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Artist Who Turned Advertising Into Art

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Art History

Van Gogh's Colour: What the Letters Tell Us

Notre-Dame de Paris, west facade. Begun 1163.

Art History

Gothic Cathedrals: The 400-Year Engineering Problem Behind Flying Buttresses

Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1902-06. Oil on canvas.

Art History

Cézanne: The Painter Who Made Impressionism Feel Incomplete

Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Art History

Vermeer and the Art of Quiet: Painting Light in the Dutch Golden Age

Utagawa Hiroshige, Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge, 1857. From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.

Art History

Hiroshige: The Poet of Rain and Snow

Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600. Oil on canvas. Contarelli Chapel, Rome.

Art History

What Is Baroque Art? A Guide to Drama, Light, and Emotion