Claude Monet, Regatta at Sainte-Adresse, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY, USA. Detail.
I’ve sailed only once or twice in my whole life but I can still remember the empowering feeling of liberation that I felt when on the water. Sailing and sailboats have been a common topic taken up by many artists across decades and countries in painting. Let’s sail with them, bon voyage!
Has this scene filled with light surprised you? Well, in the end, Friedrich is associated more with grey tones and lonely travelers…
Some people say that Renoir didn’t know how to paint. Well, I think that works like this one defy this argument, don’t you think?
Gustave Courbet might be well-known for his provocative works like the Origin of the world, but in fact, he was a great landscape painter who loved depicting water and rocks.
When days get too sunny article features another work by J.H. Twatchman. Have a read!
This woodblock print by Wassily Kandinsky is inspired by folk art from his native Russian Empire.
Maurice de Vlaminck was a member of the Fauves together with Henri Matisse and André Derain.
This woodblock print was part of the printed book for children that Oskar Kokoschka made. Yet, it turned out to be very provocative… Why? Read here.
Raoul Dufy was yet another Fauvist and I feel there is going to be an article about him one day here!
Paul Klee liked studying the shapes of well-known objects and natural phenomena.
Lichtenstein and landscapes? Might seem surprising but he was actually a way more comprehensive artist than we think…
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Magda, art historian and Italianist, she writes about art because she cannot make it herself. She loves committed and political artists like Ai Weiwei or the Futurists; like Joseph Beuys she believes that art can change us and we can change the world.
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