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
Art Forms
The Allure of Ruins — Architectural Decay in Art
There is a haunting beauty in architectural ruins. War or the passage of time has ravaged the magnificent feats of earlier civilizations. But in...
Maya M. Tola 16 November 2020
Michael West, Woman Artist Excluded from the Ab-E Gang
The American art world in the era of the post war boom of Abstract Expressionism was definitely male-oriented. And the career of Corinne Michelle...
Magda Michalska 12 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
Wonderful Paintings Inspired by Famous Literary Couples
Art & Literature have been ‘a thing‘ for centuries and they’re still at it. We have plucked a few worthy fruits of their union...
Giordana Goretti 6 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
The Art of Ekphrasis: 5 Novels that Deftly Describe Art
Describing works of art is an essential part of art history and even as a research method in itself. And yet, description is also often dismissed as...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 2 November 2020
Masterpiece Story for All Saints: A Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet
Who nowadays doesn’t appreciate Gustave Courbet‘s striking realism? We all do, but as happens with many geniuses, Courbet was not...
Magda Michalska 1 November 2020
Wild, Practical, Erotic and Magical: The Miniature World of Netsuke
Originating in 17th century Japan during the Edo Period, Netsuke (pronounced nets-keh) are toggles that attach pouches to the traditional robes,...
Nadine Waldmann 29 October 2020
Did You Know? Haarlem in the Dutch Golden Age
The city of Haarlem in the Netherlands was one of the flourishing art centers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Today, you can walk the streets of the...
Rachel Witte 20 October 2020
Painting of the Week: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
The bejeweled woman from the mosaic, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis. She is...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 October 2020
Ancient Bikini Girls from the Roman Mosaics
If you have ever wondered when the history of the bikini began, it started exactly at the same time and place in history as philosophy, mathematics,...
Magda Michalska 17 October 2020
