Stories By Magda Michalska
21st century
Hoovers Can Be Art – A Post For Perfect Housewives
October 3, 2016Do you like cleaning? I do, though I’m still far from being a Perfect Housewife. But I really like hoovering (especially with Henry). And the American artist Jeff Koons seems to be a fan of hoovers,...
Academism
Naked Truth About Academic Art
October 1, 2016Academicism was a dominant style in European sculpture and painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was called so because it was dictated by the French Academy of Art, Académie des Beaux-Arts, which was probably...
Pop art
Pauline Boty- The Mother Of Pop Art (And She’s Not American)
September 29, 2016Surprise, surprise, Pop Art did not begin in the States in the sixties but in the United Kingdom, and already in 1952. Everything started with Eduardo Paolozzi’s series of collages “Bunk” in which he used pieces of...
Artists' Stories
The Story of An Excessively Electric Friendship Between Vincent and Paul
September 28, 2016People say that you shouldn’t live with your friends because your friendship may deteriorate. And the story of friendship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin can be used as an exemplary illustration of this saying. An...
20th century
Picasso’s Favourite Instrument…
September 26, 2016That’s pretty obvious – it’s a guitar! (whoever had any dirty thoughts given the title, go to read about emotions first). It’s probably the most significant instrument for Cubism or even for the entire modern art. It...
Artists' Stories
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress Of Montmartre
September 23, 2016She started as a model because she didn’t have money for professional painting classes. She would watch the artists for whom she worked, such as Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec or Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and follow their moves and...
Food
Click Here If You’re On A Diet And Craving Something Sweet
September 22, 2016I’ve decided – I’m going on a diet. Another one. And this time I’m going to stick to it, honestly! In order to survive, because I have a terrible sweet tooth, I’ve prepared something I can...
Bodies And Erotic Art
Yoko Ono’s Performance You Can Recreate At Home
September 19, 2016Yoko Ono is not only the wife of late John Lennon. Primarily she is an artist and performer. One of her most famous performances was Cut Piece, first staged on July 20, 1964 at Yamaichi Concert Hall, Kyoto. Ono,...
21st century
Nudes With Eating Disorders
September 18, 2016To follow up my post about body images and body positivity, I want to show you a touching campaign from a few years ago. The well known nudes from art were remade in order to show...
20th century
How To Become A Surrealist – A Manual to Psychic Automatism
September 17, 2016In 1924, André Breton defined a completely new word – Surrealism- in his First Manifesto of Surrealism. It was not a trend in art or literature, it was a way of life, he explained. Basing on his dictionary-like entry...
