Museums & Exhibitions
Evoking The Genius Of Brancusi At The Museum Of Modern Art In New York
The sculptures of Constantin Brancusi remind me of being in a sketch...
Museums & Exhibitions
Enjoy The Heat Wave With The Great British Seaside
As the United Kingdom experiences one of its hottest summers in the...
20th century
Dream-like Artworks: Minnie Evans’ Divine Inspiration
August 14, 2018Folk Art, Surrealist, Visionary, Americana, call it what you will. Minnie Evans’ (1892-1987) dream-like artworks speak of another world; a world which the artist believed God had given her insight to see. The North Carolina native’s oeuvre ranges...
Symbolism
Odilon Redon’s Noir World Of Darkness
August 13, 2018The Baloon-Eye. The Crying Spider. The Cactus Man, The Cyclops. This is not the casting list of creatures from some horror movie. These are the creatures created by the endlessly creative mind of Odilon Redon – the individualist...
Painting of the Week
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais
August 12, 2018Divan Japonais is a lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec which was an ad for a café-chantant of this exact name. The poster is like a movie still depicting three celebrities from the Montmartre of Toulouse-Lautrec’s time: dancer Jane...
Music
The Sound Of Colour: Music Inspired By Visual Art – A Top 10
August 11, 2018This summer Beyonce and Jay Z made international headlines filming a music video inside the Louvre with some of the most dramatic art masterpieces from across three millennia. See Zuzanna Stanska’s article for a fascinating exploration of this....
Middle Ages
The Unicorn Tapestries – Allegory Of Christ, Or A Happy Husband?
August 10, 2018The Unicorn Tapestries are a set of medieval tapestries depicting the hunt for a unicorn. They’re probably the most famous tapestries ever, and they’re definitely among the most famous medieval artworks. The Unicorn Tapestries include seven large panels....
Museums & Exhibitions
Devoted To Delacroix – A Revealing Look At His Sketchbooks And Drawings
August 9, 2018“Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix” is a thought-provoking exhibit on many levels. Quietly on display on the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from July 17, 2018, until November 12, 2018, I was...
Middle Ages
King Pedro And Inês de Castro – What Life Took Apart, Death Put Back Together
August 8, 2018Every country has its legends and fairytales and Portugal is not an exception. One of the most known Portuguese tales is a love story about King Pedro of Portugal and Inês de Castro. Their relationship did not end...
Surrealism
Lee Miller And Surrealism In Britain
August 7, 2018In the delightfully quirky Hepworth Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, is a quiet exhibition that packs a whole range of mad surrealism in three galleries. What was particularly exciting about this was the fact that the lead practitioner in...
Religious Art
Celebrity Sculptors, Medieval Fraud And Nazi Looting – The Outrageous Story Of The Golden Veit Stoss Altarpiece
August 6, 2018This is largest Gothic altarpiece in the world and a national treasure of Poland. Carved over a period of 12 years, the 15th Century Veit Stoss Altarpiece is located behind the high altar of St. Mary’s Basilica, Krakow. Standing...
Painting of the Week
The Shiny Shield With Caravaggio’s Medusa
August 5, 2018Caravaggio is the synonym for Baroque. The artist known of close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro can be called the father of tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening shadows and transfixing subjects...
Cinema
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place
February 19, 2018We love it when pop culture is adopting, using, and remixing art history, and especially when...
20th century
Pablo Picasso And His Women
November 28, 2017Pablo Picasso perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known...
Bodies & Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
February 16, 2017“Ukiyo-e” pictures, pictures of the “floating world.” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s...
Ancient Greece
Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
October 25, 2016Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect for art throughout the ages. Many of...
20th century
Explore the Unknown World of Klimt’s Landscapes
March 23, 2018When you think of Gustav Klimt, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If you’re...
20th century
Why is Klimt Famous?
March 28, 2018Gustav Klimt, born in Austria in 1862, is celebrated as one of the most valued artists...
Artists' Stories
4 Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness (And How It Affected Their Art)
April 4, 2018The painter Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for his artworks and for a particular aspect of...
20th century
Frida Kahlo And The Symbolism In Her Art
August 8, 2017Frida Kahlo who lived during the first half of the 20th century changed the art history...
Just Weird
These 5 Weird Portraits from Kunsthistorisches Museum Will Make You Wonder
July 24, 2016Every month in our mobile app DailyArt (download it for free for iOS/Android) we specially feature...
Painting of the Week
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (Painting Of The Week)
December 3, 2016The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is one of those iconic painting everyone recognizes. But...
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