Art Travels

Florence street art may be something you don’t expect to see when you visit this beautiful city. Some time ago I visited Florence and while wandering its streets full of Renaissance architecture I spotted something very unexpected....

Women Artists

Many great female artists tend to be forgotten in art history. Those who have been neglected and marginalized for years or even centuries, lately are regaining their place on museum walls. There is still a lot to...

Impressionism

Mary 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...

20th century

Amrita Sher-Gil lived a short but interesting life. Her artistic heritage is rich and impressive. Sher-Gil is considered to be one of the most important painters of 20th-century India, and sometimes she is called India’s Frida Kahlo. Amrita Sher-Gil was...

Baroque

Rembrandt painted his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, three times during their relatively short but meaningful marriage. He created the first portrait shortly after the wedding. It shows his beloved...

Artists' Stories

Vincent van Gogh’s love life was a really sad one. The list of the artist’s lovers is full of unsuccessful romances and rejections. This is the tragic story of Vincent van Gogh and his lovers, I’m...

Artists' Stories

The Bedroom(s) are among the most famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Why the plural? There are three similar paintings of the same title. All three versions are described in his letters, easily discernible from one another by...

20th century

The Scream by Edvard Munch is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It’s pretty obvious why – its expression and the way the pain and the anxiety of the man are depicted is...

Artists' Stories

20th century

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents. Like this...