Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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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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Cinema
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (5th Season Update)
September 13, 2018We love it when pop culture is adopting, using and remixing art history, especially when that mixture includes a T.V. show. If you’re a BoJack Horseman fan and an art aficionado, you’re going to love this...
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Painting of the Week
Hey Boy, Hey Girl: Bacchus by Caravaggio
September 9, 2018A youthful Bacchus, god of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre is reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in his hair. On a stone table in front of him, there is a bowl of fruit...
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Painting of the Week
Painting Of The Week – John Everett Millais, Ophelia
September 2, 2018When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As one incapable of her...
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Baroque
Everything You Must Know About Las Meninas
August 24, 2018This is one of Velázquez’s largest paintings in which he worked very hard to create a complex and credible composition that would convey a ‘sense of life’. Las Meninas, which in Spanish stands for The Ladies-in-waiting, is...
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