Stories By Caroline Mokrohajská
20th century
The Most Iconic Sculptures by Richard Serra
February 22, 2021Richard Serra is an American artist and sculptor involved in the Process Art Movement. He often constructs site-specific installations, made out of fiberglass, rubber, and most frequently steel on a scale that dwarfs the observer. His site-specific...
21st century
Nostalgic Futurism in the Photography of Mária Švarbová
February 15, 2021Mária Švarbová is a talented, young, Slovakian, female photographer. She is known for her conceptual and minimalistic photographic series, immersed in a Socialist Modernist architecture and radiating an intimate atmosphere, ruled geometry, and color balance. The...
Contemporary Art
The Colorful and Extraordinary World of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden
January 26, 2021Inspired by Antonio Gaudí’s Park Güell in Barcelona, Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, as well as Palais Idéal by Ferdinand Cheval, the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, decided to create her own mystical garden, Giardino...
20th century
César Baldaccini: Master of Compression
January 11, 2021César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, was a prominent French sculptor of the 1960s. He created large sculptures formed by compressing crushed automobiles, discarded metal, rubbish, domestic objects, or even jewelry. He also collaborated with...
21st century
How Roman Opałka Envisioned Infinity
January 5, 2021In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opałka came to an important decision. While sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, an idea came into his mind, and he began...
20th century
Arte Povera: Aesthetics of the Ordinary
December 29, 2020In memory of the recently deceased world-famous Italian art critic Germano Celant, who himself in 1967 invented the term Arte Povera, translated as “Poor Art”, we would like to present to you the most important and...
20th century
Childhood Memories and Winter Charm by Vladimír Kompánek
December 23, 2020Considered by many to be the Slovak Kandinsky, we would like to present to you the famous Slovak sculptor and painter Vladimír Kompánek who, through the reduction of reality into simple geometric shapes and primary colors,...
20th century
Dreams That Money Can Buy? Dadaist Cinema at Its Best
November 30, 2020Dreams that Money Can Buy (1947) is a Dadaist portmanteau movie, an unknown cinematographic masterpiece combining surrealistic and experimental elements. It was produced by Peggy Guggenheim and directed by German avant-garde painter and dada film-theorist Hans...
20th century
Nose Art – The Most Unique Art Painted by Pilots During WWII
November 5, 2020Ever since men first went to war in airplanes, they have felt the need to decorate their machines with unofficial, often banned and personal markings. So-called Nose Art created a powerful bond between man and machine....
20th century
Weird & Bizarre: A Toilet as a Work of Art
October 27, 2020A joke, a provocation, or an attempt to attract your attention? Maybe none of these or maybe all of them. Here are the three of the most renowned toilets in the history of art. They may...
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Jozef Mehoffer – Strange Garden
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Season for Bacchus and Wine
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5 Positive Effects of Art on Mental Health
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Valentin Serov, Russian Master of Portraits
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Painting of the Week: Pieter de Ring, Still Life with a Golden Goblet
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Alexandra Exter: From Russia to Paris with Art
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Nostalgic Futurism in the Photography of Mária Švarbová
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The Stunning Botanical Art of Barbara Regina Dietzsch
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5 Greatest Baroque Painters And Their Work
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Paris Through the Lens of Early Photographers
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