Striding Lion from the Ishtar Gate
Striding Lion is a masterpiece of Mesopotamian art through its monumental size and composition. It symbolizes the strength of King Nebuchadnezzar II...
James W Singer 19 December 2021
Art Forms
Masterpiece Story: The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
Out of the cold English air comes a man tired from a hard day’s work. He enters his home where his loving wife waits with a hot meal to warm his...
James W Singer 18 December 2021
Squid Game: Art in the Darkest of Places
Television may not have as long a history as other art forms. Nonetheless, it has taken inspiration from them. Now it is time for the most popular...
Jimena Escoto 17 December 2021
Art in the Netflix TV Series Dark
In June 2020 Netflix released the long-awaited third and final season of Dark. The German series, co-created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, has...
Arianna Richetti 17 December 2021
Duchamp’s Pipe: A Chess Romance. The Marriage of Man and Mind
Allow me to begin this review of Celia Rabinovitch’s Duchamp’s Pipe: A Chess of Romance by stating, unequivocally, that I had no interest...
Tony Heathfield 16 December 2021
The City Where the Sun Never Sets: The Grounded Sun in Zagreb
No matter the weather conditions, there has always been sun in Zagreb for the last 50 years, 365 days a year, with few interruptions. This is thanks...
Petra Dragasevic 16 December 2021
Kandinsky’s Inspiration? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists
Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with garden was a curse (because...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
Kandinsky’s World of Russian Fairy Tales
155 years ago today, Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow! He is chiefly associated with Der Blaue Reiter, an international group of avant-garde...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
This Looks out of Tune? Finding Dissonance in Kandinsky’s Paintings
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky painted some of the most beautiful pieces of art in a style that is instantly recognizable. The flurry of lines,...
Craig Wakerley 16 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: Duchamp’s La Joconde aka L.H.O.O.Q
This masterpiece, La Joconde, is all about codes, reversals, play with conventions, and provocation. In other words, it’s an epitome of Dada...
Magda Michalska 15 December 2021
Modern Living – Sonneveld House, Rotterdam
Visit with us the Sonneveld House Museum, one of the best-preserved examples the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International School of...
Joanna Kaszubowska 14 December 2021
Slava Raškaj, The Story of a Deaf Impressionist Watercolorist
In the final years of the 19th century, the art scene in Zagreb, Croatia, was pretty vibrant. The various ideas circulated among artists occasionally...
Lana Pajdas 13 December 2021
