Stories By Errika Gerakiti
20th century
Madame Grès, The Sphinx of Fashion
July 26, 2021During the 1930s, fashion was heavily influenced by ancient Greece. In the previous decades, there was an appreciation through patterns such as the meander and the Greek key. But during the 1930s, the couturiers returned to...
20th century
Alexander Iolas, The Greek Patron of the Arts
July 14, 2021Alexander Iolas was a very important gallerist and art collector of the second half of the 20th century. He was born in 1907 in Alexandria of Egypt as Konstantinos Koutsoudis, to a wealthy family of cotton...
dailyart
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 50 Years Later
July 10, 2021The well-known essay Why have there been no great women artists by Linda Nochlin was originally published in ARTnews in January 1971. It is an essay on proto-feminist art theory. Nochlin wrote it during the onset...
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10 Great Women Sculptors You Should Know
June 12, 2021Sculpture is a very impressive form of art, dating back to ancient times. Just like traditional painting, art history has acknowledged only male sculptors. However, that doesn’t mean that women haven’t made powerful statements through sculpture....
Abstraction
Barnett Newman, A Pillar of Abstract Expressionism
April 28, 2021When one thinks of Abstract Expressionism, the name of Barnett Newman pops up immediately. That is only fair since he is a pillar of the movement and his contribution to contemporary art is huge. Newman was...
20th century
Abstract Expressionism 101: Everything You Need To Know
April 27, 2021Abstract Expressionism is an art movement that emerged in the USA in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of its most prominent artists are Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman. Even though it...
21st century
Art Activist Barbie, When Playful Protests Indicate Gender Inequality in Art
April 8, 2021Art Activist Barbie has been showing up in museums and galleries for over three years, criticizing the male-dominated art world. Holding a lollipop stick, Art Activist Barbie uses small signs to ask big questions in fabulous...
21st century
Celebrating Beauty and Horror: The Sculptures of Javier Pérez
March 24, 2021Javier Pérez is a postwar contemporary multimedia artist. He does performance art, photography, and sculpture. His ideas move in a circular motive, reflecting on mortality, light, and darkness, metamorphosis, stability and fragility. Specifically, his sculptures are...
Art Travels
The Best Street Art in Athens, Greece
March 10, 2021Athens is a strange city. On the one hand, you can see the monuments and relics of Ancient Greece that stand haughtily and imposingly. On the other hand, you have the rest of the city, which...
Artist
The Beautiful Parisian Scenes of Jean Béraud
February 28, 2021In the first quarter of the 20th century, Paris was the center of artistic and intellectual activity. Artists, actors, dancers, poets, writers, philosophers from around the world went to Paris to discover the magic of the...
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