All posts tagged "art"
Fashion
Is It Fashion, or Is It Art? Roberto Capucci’s Sculpture Dresses
August 20, 2018Roberto Capucci (b. 1930) is an Italian fashion designer. Or maybe he’s a sculptor. It’s difficult...
20th century
Seven Haunting Town Paintings by Egon Schiele
July 2, 2018Austrian artist Egon Schiele is best known for his shamelessly erotic and frank representations of the human...
20th century
Pictures On My Wall – The Art Of Polish Film Posters
May 29, 2018The emergence of the poster as a fresh, creative medium was a timely episode in an...
20th century
Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and The Art of Chance
May 4, 2018The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities...
20th century
Charles Keeping: An Extraordinary English Illustrator
February 20, 2018Today I would like to talk about Charles Keeping, an illustrator whom I discovered in my...
Artist
Power, Victory, Glory and Death: Titian’s Art in Venice
December 7, 2017Titian Vecellio was the most famous painter of the Venetian Renaissance. Even during his lifetime the...
Artist
Giovanni Boldini’s Beautiful Belles
October 9, 2017Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) was a popular society portrait painter in turn-of-the-century France and England. His elegant...
Artists' Stories
The Tragic Tale Of The Gierymski Brothers
August 19, 2017It is rare to see two siblings as talented and successful – and on the same...
Art History 101
Ladies In Red – Famous Red Dresses In Art
May 26, 2017Red in art history symbolizes many things. First of all, it was a color of power,...
Ancient Rome
Erotic Art in Pompeii and Herculaneum (NSFW!)
May 9, 2017Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum is a phenomenon often omitted by textbooks about ancient history. Those famous...
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The Story of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom And Its Three Versions
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Kandinsky’s World of Russian Fairy Tales
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Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
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Power And Propaganda – The British Royal Portraits
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7 Van Gogh’s Extraordinary Paintings You’ve Probably Never Seen
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Pablo Picasso And His Women
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Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
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Greek Mythological Creatures That Combine Female Beauty And Beastly Ugliness
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The Mystery of Vincent Van Gogh’s Death
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Odilon Redon’s Noir World Of Darkness
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