Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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Halloween Special
12 Famous Funeral Paintings of Western Art
November 1, 2018Funeral practices are deeply ingrained in all cultures and hugely varied traditions around the globe reflect a wide spread of beliefs and values. On the days we remember the deceased, let’s take a look at famous...
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Painting of the Week
Claude Monet, Autumn Effects at Argenteuil
October 21, 2018Claude Monet painted Autumn Effects at Argenteuil in late 1873, which was the moment when the Impressionist movement started to roar on the Paris art scene. The subject is a view of Argenteuil, an expanding industrial centre...
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Painting of the Week
Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu
October 14, 2018Loneliness in the crowd. We’re at a café somewhere in France. Seven people sat at the tables: a powdered prostitute, a clown with white make-up, a military man in epaulettes, a bearded bohemian and a pair of...
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Secession
Gustav Klimt And His Love For Trees In Paintings
October 9, 2018Gustav Klimt, the greatest master of Vienna Secession is known for his golden paintings full of fantastic creatures, rich ornaments and beautiful women (who are often naked). But Klimt had also another, less known side called...
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Painting of the Week
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Theatre Box
October 7, 2018Entertainments such as cabarets, theatres and the circus were popular themes among the Impressionist painters whose mission was portraying the modern city life. Theatre in Paris was a rapidly expanding industry during the 19th century where it was...
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Painting of the Week
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin
September 30, 2018Joseph Roulin worked for a post office in the French town of Arles. He didn’t carry letters—he rather was sorting mail at the train station. In 1888, Vincent van Gogh moved to Arles, a fifteen-hour train...
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21st century
The iPad-designed David Hockney’s Queen’s Window Presented At Westminster Abbey
September 29, 2018David Hockney is an artist who lately, while creating his works often reaches for… his iPad. A coloured window designed on a tablet has been unveiled at Westminster Abbey. It shows blue skies and a red...
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Painting of the Week
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter
September 23, 2018On the Johannes Vermeer‘s painting, we see a quiet, private moment. In Woman Reading a Letter, a young woman stands engrossed in reading a letter. She looks like she’s pregnant. It is a morning, and she is...
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19th Century
Everything You Must Know About Pont-Aven School
September 21, 2018The year 1886 was a turning point for Paul Gauguin’s career as a painter. That was the year when the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France, became the centre of a vibrant international artists’ colony. In...
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Painting of the Week
Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon
September 16, 2018Vision after the Sermon is one of the most important works the artist painted in Brittany. Breton peasants, which Gauguin viewed as exotic, are here plain types treated as flat silhouettes and painted in bright colours and simplified shapes....
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