About Pigment Pool

As a leading Australian art blog and art dealer, we’ve built a classic art collection unmatched in selection and quality. It is our highest goal to bring value, beauty, and personalized service to all of our customers around the world.

At Pigment Pool we explore modernist art of the 19th and 20th centuries. We look at the stories behind the most famous pieces known to the world, discovering the sometimes grotesque and strangely surprising facts carried within the pictures, which we will want to know especially when featuring one of these modernist paintings in our home.

We believe that modernist artwork is more relevant today than ever before: The great masterpieces of modernismThe term Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture which sought the departure from traditional forms of thinking in favour of the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organisation. Reflecting the transformations in western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the newly emerging industrial world provided the impetus to depart More were created in a period in history that was essentially characterized by the strong belief in progress, a utopian vision of society and human life. The same vigorous sense of progress is ubiquitous in our everyday life today. Choosing to hang up a masterpiece of CubismSynthetic cubism was the later period of the Cubist art movement generally dated from 1912 – 1919. Artists of Synthetic Cubism moved away from the multi-perspective approach of Analytical Cubism in favour of flattened images that dispensed allusions of the three-dimensional space. Pablo Picasso, Clarinet, Bottle of Bass, Newspaper, Ace of Clubs (2013) The approach of the analytical phase was More, ImpressionismImpressionism was an art movement of the 19th century developed in France, based on the practice of painting spontaneously out-doors (“en plein air”) rather than in the studio. Key impressionist subjects were everyday scenes and landscapes, in which the momentary and transient effects of sunlight should be captured. The artists worked directly in front of their subjects, using rapid brushwork More, SurrealismSurrealism was a 20th-century philosophical, literary, and artistic movement seeking to channel the unconscious to access the imaginary. Proponents of Surrealism rejected the notion of understanding life in rational and conventional terms in favour of asserting the value of the unconscious mind, dreams, the strangely beautiful, and the uncanny. André Breton, the leader of a group of poets and artists More, or another art movement of the modernist period is as if focusing on this zeal right within our living spaces. A silent landscape by van Gogh on our walls or the deepness of Rothko’s colour fields can broaden the perspective of our inner eye and make us see beyond.

While looking at the art of the past, we want to address contemporary issues from a timely standpoint. We would like to invite you to join us sharing knowledge and ideas, to dive into our pool of stories behind iconic art. Further, we hope you will find your personal masterpiece at Pigment Pool, that will resonate with you and be a source for inspiring conversations.