Everything You Must Know About Pont-Aven School
The 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,...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 September 2018
Art Forms
Giacometti’s ‘Final Portrait’
The movie ‘Final Portrait’ is a faithful rendition of the book by James Lord, ‘A Giacometti Portrait.’ The book was published in 1965, a year...
Howard Schwartz 19 September 2018
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus, has fascinated...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 27 August 2018
Egon Schiele, Edith with Striped Dress, Sitting
Edith Harms, the future wife of Egon Schiele, lived with her sister, Adele and their parents across the street from Schiele’s studio at the...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 August 2018
Travel In Time Through Images – Stephen Wilkes’ Photos
Can you imagine seeing your whole day in just one photograph? In Stephen Wilkes’ photos it’s possible! Photos are related to our past...
Cisem Ozkal 31 July 2018
Heavenly Bodies Spring to Life in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
I am not Catholic. And I am not up on the latest fashions. Yet here I was, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Fifth Avenue with...
Howard Schwartz 30 July 2018
Seven Errors Game with Lucas Cranach the Elder
Do you like games? Your mission in today’s game is to identify seven differences between the artworks of Lucas Cranach the Elder that I chose...
Rute Ferreira 22 June 2018
Start The Summer With Salvador Dalí
Summer is officially on! If you’re still looking for a beach where to show your artsy bikini, or a Picasso-like beach body, maybe you’ll...
Magda Michalska 21 June 2018
A New Rembrandt Painting Discovered
In 2016, the Dutch art dealer Jan Six purchased a 17th-century portrait of an unidentified young man at a Christie’s auction in London. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 June 2018
Picasso Sighting in New York City—He’s Mowing his Lawn
I looked across the street and saw Pablo Picasso mowing his lawn. He was ten feet tall. He was inside a fence, which was unusual, and the expression...
Howard Schwartz 7 June 2018
Educating Through Art: What We Can Learn From Frederick Schiller’s Writings
Why Art? Any form of Art is devoted to (providing) joy, and there is not any higher and not any more serious duty than to make the human beings...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 3 May 2018
Let’s Sing Praises to Song Dynasty Genius Artist Ma Yuan
There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye. Ma Yuan, (1160-1225) was a Southern Song Dynasty, Chinese painter from an illustrious...
Barry Russell 18 April 2018
