All posts tagged "art"
Halloween Special
Double Double Toil and Trouble: Witches in Art and Modern Media
October 30, 2018Tis the season….no, not of Christmas. Halloween. The time for Fall festivals, hayrides, corn mazes, and...
21st century
Danger, Danger: Art Can Hurt You
September 12, 2018Every once in a while, an accident involving an artwork happens. Usually, it is the artwork...
Middle Ages
Let It Be: The Annunciation In Medieval And Renaissance Christian Art
August 28, 2018Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism...
Sculpture
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
August 27, 2018The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus,...
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...
