Global Landmarks Viewed from High in the Sky
If you are someone who does not deal well with heights, perhaps proceed through this article with caution. Because even though they are only images...
Rachel Witte 19 December 2020
Art Forms
Joseph Wright of Derby: Painting the Industrial Revolution
Joseph Wright of Derby is deemed as the first painter to capture the spirit of the Industrial Revolution. His paintings portray the zeitgeist of his...
Anastasia Manioudaki 11 December 2020
Industrial Landscapes – The Silhouette of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution brought profound changes into the world, re-designing its shape in the most hardhearted of ways, never experienced before...
Giordana Goretti 8 December 2020
John Ruskin: Painter, Prophet, Pervert. ‘Unto This Last’ by Rebecca Lipkin
We review the novel Unto This Last by Rebecca Lipkin and investigate the myth behind the great John Ruskin. Which Ruskin camp do you fall into? Are...
Candy Bedworth 3 December 2020
Art Advent Calendar of Nativities
Today December starts and that means it is the countdown until Christmas Day. To celebrate, here is an art advent calendar of nativity scenes,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 December 2020
Maya Deren: Experimental Filmmaker and Voodoo Priestess
Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker hailed as a leading pioneer of avant-garde cinema. She was also a writer, poet, photographer,...
Marga Patterson 30 November 2020
All the Prodigal Sons in Art
A quick internet search for “the Prodigal Son in art” yields some 13,000,000 results! What makes this 2,000-year-old story so compelling that...
Ledys Chemin 27 November 2020
Andrés Marti: Every Experience Generates Roots
According to Goethe, melancholy is a sense of sadness whose causes are unknown. Its symptoms are the only thing you are aware of, that’s why you...
Guest Author 23 November 2020
The Lifelike Death Fayum Portraits of Roman Egypt
Though they are often referred to as “Fayum portraits” – taking their title from the location of a region in Egypt where Pharaoh...
Anthony de Feo 21 November 2020
Story of Pygmalion and Galatea by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The story of Pygmalion and Galatea is an enchanting myth about a Cypriot sculptor who fell in love with his own sculpture. He prays to goddess...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 19 November 2020
Pollen, Purity and Patience: A Journey of Creation with Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib (born 1950) is a contemporary German sculptor. He works with natural materials that emanate life energies: milk, pollen, rice and...
Marga Patterson 11 November 2020
The Post-Minimalistic and Feminist Art of Lynda Benglis
Post-Minimalism refers to all art practices that came out in the late 1960s. It embraces Body Art, Performance Art, Process Art, and aspects of...
Errika Gerakiti 4 November 2020
