Stories By Zuzanna Stanska
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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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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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The Sad Story Of Vincent Van Gogh And His Lovers
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