Stories By Magda Michalska
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20th century
Life-Size Dolls, Ropes and Erotic Photography: Scandalous World of Hans Bellmer
April 8, 2019“I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me”, said Terence, Roman playwright sometime in the 2nd century BC. I think that art and what inspired what you will see below, is exactly...
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20th century
Kiki Smith’s Bodies as Instruments of Perception and Travel
April 6, 2019It seems Kiki Smith didn’t have much choice when deciding on who to become in the future because art just flows in her veins: her father Tony Smith was a sculptor, her mother, Jane Lawrence Smith,...
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Bodies And Erotic Art
Sylvia Sleigh. A Slay Girl Who Rocked Male Portraiture
April 2, 2019I called Sylvia Sleigh a slay girl because she was beautiful inside out. Brave and independent, she pursued her own figurative style which by many was regarded as outmoded in the years of Pop Art dominance....
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Artist
Huguette Caland’s Linear Eroticism
March 26, 2019Some see her art as sexualized. I’d rather see Huguette Caland’s linear eroticism, which shifts between abstraction and figuration, as an exploration of intimacy of human bodies and relationships. She might be one of the most brilliant...
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Artist
More than a Stone. Representation of the Kaaba by Hamra Abbas
March 14, 2019The 17th century world map from an Ottoman book on the discovery of the Americas “Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi” (“History of the West Indies”) points Mecca and the Kaaba as the centre of the world. Indeed, the...
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21st century
Karoliina Hellberg and The New Finnish Interiors
March 11, 2019Karoliina Hellberg is a young Finnish painter who graduated in 2015 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. At the moment she has her first solo show at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki, a...
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Artist
International Women’s Day 2019: Three Unknown Women Artists
March 8, 2019Happy Women’s Day to all women and men (in the end men should celebrate with us!)!!! I hope that with every passing year the world will be a more hospitable place for all women and that...
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Special Occasion And News
AWA Around the World for Women’s Day
March 7, 2019Do you remember my post about an unknown Last Supper painted by a woman artist? If you do, the name Advancing Women Artists Foundation will ring a bell, too. They are up and running, and in the...
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dailyart
Keep Eating and Never Regret: Fat Thursday 2019
February 28, 2019Doughnuts, doughnuts… who wouldn’t be tempted by one freshly out of the bakery, covered in sweet coating and with a warm, creamy filling… Aaaaah… People dieting- no talk of calories or fats, you’re forbidden entry to...
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21st century
What Does Matrix Have to Do with Lace? NeSpoon’s Street Art Explains
February 26, 2019NeSpoon is a street artist who combines ceramics, lace and graffiti in her work. She travels the world and decorates old buildings or run-down street corners with her characteristic crochet-patterned murals and pottery panels. But what...
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