Stories By Magda Michalska
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21st century
Is AI Painting the Future of Art?
February 6, 2019Times change and technology becomes engrained deeper and deeper in all areas of our lives. Art is not spared either, last October we heard a controversial piece of news: for the first time in history, Christie’s...
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20th century
Aristarkh Lentulov’s Cubist Russia
February 2, 2019Recently I showed you views of typical wintery Russia by Korovin, which you can see here. Today we’ll see instead something out-of-ordinary. Although it’s always the same country, this time it’s seen in an avant-garde lens....
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Artist
Carnivalesque Man Ray and His Masks
January 29, 2019Since the carnival is officially on, I thought of writing an article about masks. The first artist that comes to mind if one says ‘masks’ is James Ensor, so if you feel like reading about eerie...
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20th century
Bauhaus Turns 100! Yahoo! This is your celebration!
January 25, 2019As one of my fav bands Kool&The Gang sings in their hit Celebration, I want to “celebrate good times” of Bauhaus in “a celebration to last throughout the years/ So bring your good times, and your...
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Surrealism
Leonor Fini: I’m Not A Muse, I’m An Artist
January 24, 2019Leonor Fini didn’t agree with Andre Breton about the role of women in art: the father of Surrealism saw women solely as muses inspiring male genius, whereas Leonor reckoned, and proved with her art, that women...
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dailyart
A Complex Polyptych About Pain and Passion
January 22, 2019Today’s work by Matthias Grünewald is a polyptych about pain and passion put on view. It’s a complex painting consisting of several parts and sections, depending on which wing is currently opened, it narrates a totally...
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20th century
Memphis Is Not in Fact a City but a Design Group
January 18, 2019Heard of Memphis? And I do not mean here the city in Tennessee or the ancient capital in Egypt, but an international group of designers and architects who one day met in Milan, Italy, to develop...
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20th century
Rape? What Rape? Artworks Everyone Should See
January 7, 2019In October 2017, #MeToo movement was founded, with the hashtag spreading virally and women all over the world sharing their stories of experience of sexual harassment. Various artists, mostly women, have treated this subject in art and...
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Animals
2019: Year of the Pig and Pigs in Painting
January 4, 2019According to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year closing the twelve-year lunar calendar cycle. It’s named after the Pig because according to the mythology, it was the last guest to arrive when the Jade Emperor (i.e. first...
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Special Occasion And News
New Year’s Resolutions For 2019?
January 1, 2019The nearer 2019 is, the more I think about new things I would like to do in the incoming year. And I’m not even talking about resolutions or bucket lists, but rather dreams of experiences or...
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