Artists' Stories
Let’s Sing Praises to Song Dynasty Genius Artist Ma Yuan
There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye....
21st century
Faceless Women and Fungi – The Art of Ewa Juszkiewicz
How many portraits of faceless women, with fungi in place of their...
19th Century
What Art Has To Do With Politics: Gustave Courbet And The Paris Commune
April 16, 2018The painter Gustave Courbet who was the central figure of Realism, is known for his paintings in which he reveals the true lives of peasants and ordinary workers, at a time when the most well-accepted portraits were those...
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Portrait of A Man in Red Chalk (aka Leonardo da Vinci)
April 15, 2018Hello, it’s me, I was wondering if after all these years (exactly 566 today) you’d like to meet… I guess it’s a cult portrait by now, probably almost everyone knows my face. It’s kind of awkward, though, that...
19th Century
The American Artist Who Loved Everything British: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Shakespeare Paintings
April 14, 2018Painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) was born in America, but he spent most of his career in England. He loved all things British, particularly the works of William Shakespeare. Abbey first visited England in 1878 to...
Just Weird
So Bad That It’s Good: 5 Of The Worst Artworks Restorations!
April 13, 2018Artworks are a legacy of humanity and as such they must be well preserved – and usually, they are, in museums and cultural institutions. Even so, sometimes the conditions of the place where the work is, or the...
19th Century
Get To Know The Cultural Legacy of Albert, Prince Consort
April 12, 2018The Royal Collection is one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact. A press release by the UK’s Royal Collection has marked...
21st century
Selfie-feminism, the Sad Girl Theory and the Sad Girls of Instagram
April 11, 2018A new wave of female artists started to appear on Instagram. They come from various backgrounds, were born in different decades, their styles are wildly different, but they share a similar characteristic. They’re women, they’re proud of it...
20th century
Two Worlds Collide: Pop Art and the Cuban Revolution
April 10, 2018Pop Art Comes to Cuba Raúl Martínez was born in the central Cuban city of Ciego de Ávila in 1927. Before the Revolution, he had the opportunity to work and exhibit his early paintings in Europe and the United States,...
20th century
Make Me Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
April 9, 2018When I decided to write about Dora Kallmus, more known by her pseudonym Madame d’Ora, I found out that the Leopold Museum in Vienna is going to open in July an exhibition entirely dedicated to her, entitled Make Me...
20th century
Almada Negreiros: The Man Who Loved All The Arts
April 8, 2018Have you heard about the writer Almada Negreiros? He is the author of beautiful verses, like the Canção da Saudade, in which he says if I were blind, I loved everybody… Maybe you know him better as a writer...
Painting of the Week
Salvador Dali, The Burning Giraffe
April 7, 2018The Burning Giraffe is one of Salvador Dalí’s most famous paintings. It was created in 1937, when the artist, at the time the most famous Surrealist was still in Europe, before his 8 year old exile in the United...
Just Weird
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...
Renaissance
15 Facts About Sistine Chapel You Need To Know
March 6, 2018The Sistine Chapel is one of the most famous art places in the world – all...
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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Just Weird
So Bad That It’s Good: 5 Of The Worst Artworks Restorations!
April 13, 2018Artworks are a legacy of humanity and as such they must be well preserved – and...
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...
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...
Artists' Stories
The Flying Lovers, Bella and Marc Chagall
February 17, 2018Valentines or not, a love story is always a good read, especially if it’s such a...
20th century
Tamara de Lempicka, The First Woman Artist To Be A Glamour Star
January 5, 2017This is how Tamara de Lempicka, the most famous Art Deco painter, was described by her...
Bodies
History Of Medicine in Art, Collection Of Artworks At Wellcome Library in London
March 9, 2018London is a great place to be for the curious and inquisitive. Public museums, galleries and...
Artists' Stories
When Art Hurts: The Story Of The French Painter Auguste Renoir
February 25, 2018Today we present the story of the French painter Auguste Renoir and we also wish him...
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