Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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Painting of the Week
Egon Schiele, Edith with Striped Dress, Sitting
August 19, 2018Edith Harms, the future wife of Egon Schiele, lived with her sister, Adele and their parents across the street from Schiele’s studio at the Hietzinger Hauptstrasse in Vienna. Schiele in 1914 was still involved in a...
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Symbolism
Odilon Redon’s Noir World Of Darkness
August 13, 2018The Baloon-Eye. The Crying Spider. The Cactus Man, The Cyclops. This is not the casting list of creatures from some horror movie. These are the creatures created by the endlessly creative mind of Odilon Redon –...
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Painting of the Week
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais
August 12, 2018Divan Japonais is a lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec which was an ad for a café-chantant of this exact name. The poster is like a movie still depicting three celebrities from the Montmartre of Toulouse-Lautrec’s time:...
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Painting of the Week
The Shiny Shield With Caravaggio’s Medusa
August 5, 2018Caravaggio is the synonym for Baroque. The artist known of close physical observation with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro can be called the father of tenebrism. He made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening shadows and...
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Painting of the Week
Painting Of The Week: Johannes Vermeer, View Of Delft
July 29, 2018Ever since I saw the View of Delft in the museum in The Hague, I have known that I had seen the most beautiful painting in the world. – said Marcel Proust about Johannes Vermeer’s View...
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Animals
Tsuguharu Foujita: The Cat Master
July 27, 2018There are many artists who can be called cat-lovers but only one can be called the master of cats. Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques...
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Painting of the Week
El Lissitzky – Beat The Whites With The Red Wedge
July 22, 2018Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (“Клином красным бей белых!” Klinom krasnym bey belykh!) is a 1919 lithographic Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky, better known as El Lissitzky. It is considered symbolic...
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Special Occasion And News
Nazi-looted Cézanne Painting To Be Shown In Switzerland
July 13, 2018Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland has put a new painting on view on Tuesday – a Cézanne from the notorious Nazi-looted art trove of Cornelius Gurlitt. The painting, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1897) went on view for the first...
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Nature
The Fantasy World of Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Portraits
July 5, 2018Mannerism was a style in European art that was full of weirdness and exaggeration. Sophistication and artificiality were its second name. It favoured compositional tension and instability. It favoured everything that was as far from Renaissance balance...
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Art Nouveau
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life
June 24, 2018Death was a fascinating theme for many artists. It was frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper, a living skeleton who causes the victim’s death by coming to collect them. In turn,...
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