Kelly Hill is a Humanities instructor at the University of Louisville. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and she loves Impressionist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist art. She's been known to bore her friends and family with discussions about representations of gender in 19th century art. If she could only look at one painting for the rest of her life, it would be Degas’s The Star.
Masterpiece Story: Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) by Vincent van Gogh
In the mid-19th century, Japanese ports were suddenly opened up to international trade, and Europeans went crazy for Japanese culture and art,...
Kelly Hill 29 November 2023
Keeping up with the Boys: Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler
It’s often the men of Abstract Expressionism who are best known: Jackson Pollock and his famous “drip” technique; Willem de Kooning’s...
Kelly Hill 2 November 2023
5 Things You Need to Know About Australian Impressionism
Australian Impressionism might not be as well known as its French counterpart, but this late 19th-century art movement was important to the country.
Kelly Hill 20 June 2023
The Scandalous Nudes of Gustave Courbet
In the 19th century, French painter and rebel Gustave Courbet generated outrage with his scandalous nudes. What exactly was so scandalous about his...
Kelly Hill 10 June 2023
Gerda Wegener: Art Deco Feminist
Today Gerda Wegener is best known for feminist art and portrayal of lesbianism. She was also married to Einar Wegener, who after the sex reassignment...
Kelly Hill 28 April 2023
5 Artists Who Likely Suffered From Syphilis
Also known as the French disease or great pox, syphilis was a common sexually transmitted disease in Europe in the 1800s. In fact, 10-15% of...
Kelly Hill 4 April 2023
Anita Berber: Femme Fatale of the Weimar Republic
Born on 10 June 1899 in Dresden Germany, Anita Berber shocked and entertained the cabaret and bourgeois crowds of the Weimar Republic right up to her...
Kelly Hill 18 July 2022