Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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Abstraction
People, Subways and Mystery – Early Rothko’s Paintings Will Surprise You
May 13, 2019There is no doubt that when we think of Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), we see his large, abstract canvases, which were representations of human feelings and the human drama. They were painted from 1950 to 1970...
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Expressionism
Painting of the Week: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden
May 5, 2019The swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city. This is the subject of today’s painting of the week, created by one of the greatest German Expressionists, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner was a member of...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Raphael, Transfiguration
April 21, 2019The Transfiguration was the last painting created by Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534) and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Leonardo da Vinci, The Lady with an Ermine
April 14, 2019This, one of the greatest masterpieces of Western art by Leonardo da Vinci, presents Cecilia Gallerani (ca. 1473–1536). Young, beautiful and talented, especially in the areas of music and literature, she entered the Court of Milan...
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Impressionism
Painting of the Week: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
April 7, 2019Today we present to you this beautiful painting by Renoir. It is known under two titles – the title Two Sisters (in French: Les Deux Sœurs) was given to the painting by the artist himself, and the title On the...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Vincent van Gogh, Irises
March 31, 2019One year before his death on March 30th 1890, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter Saint Paul de Mausole, an asylum in Saint-Rémy, originally a 12th century Augustinian monastery. Isolation was what he wanted. There he created almost...
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Impressionism
Painting of the Week: Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
March 10, 2019Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became friends with Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists as one of “les trois...
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Cats
15 Cats in Art History Every Cat Lover Would Love
February 17, 2019Today is the day – for some it’s more important than Valentine’s Day, more important than Boxing Day, and even more important than International Pizza Day. Today is… INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY! As the proud owner of...
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19th Century
Painting of the Week: Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot
February 10, 2019Gustav Courbet, the enfant terrible of French 19th-century art, did everything he could to save himself in the memory of the contemporary art critics. After the success of Cabanel’s Birth of Venus at the Salon of 1863, Courbet...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Edouard Manet, The Railway
February 3, 2019In 1873 when this painting was created by the realist master Édouard Manet, the Gare Saint–Lazare was the largest and busiest train station in Paris. But here it is rather invisible. The main subject of the piece...
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