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 Forms
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
Flash Gordon of Architecture – Helmut Jahn and Postmodernism
Helmut Jahn died in a bicycle accident on 8 May 2021, he was 81. You might have seen his obituaries in the newspapers and, if you missed them, this...
Joanna Kaszubowska 13 December 2021
Edvard Munch’s Life in Photos
Naturally, Edvard Munch is best known for his paintings. However, he was also one of the first of the generation of painters who dabbled in amateur...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: Edvard Munch, Madonna
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch realized the colored lithograph Madonna in 1895. He is considered the precursor of Expressionism, therefore his...
Maia Heguiaphal 12 December 2021
Edvard Munch and His Portrayals of Death
“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,” Munch wrote in...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 December 2021
