Painting

Quiz

QUIZ: Guess the Painting Within a Painting!

Kate Wojtczak 22 August 2025

Quiz

QUIZ: Who Painted This Dog? Canines in Art

Candy Bedworth 22 August 2025

Realism

Józef Chełmoński in 10 Paintings: Capturing the Spirit of Rural Life

Józef Chełmoński masterfully portrayed life in the Polish countryside. His paintings reveal a subtle connection between human and nature,...

Guest Author 21 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: The Railway Station by William Powell Frith

The Victorian Era was a period of great technological advances that redefined life in Britain. The Railway Station by William Powell Frith is an...

Edoardo Cesarino 21 August 2025

Review

Christian Dotremont: A Painter-Poet

Christian Dotremont was a Belgian artist and one of the founders of the CoBrA movement. What sets his art apart is his unique perspective on writing...

Tommy Thiange 21 August 2025

Literature

Luo Ping: 18th-Century Visionary Painter and Poet

Luo Ping, Freud’s godfather, proclaimed: “Kill or be killed…” But of course, Luo Ping was subtler than this; he only suggests what...

Barry Russell 21 August 2025

Impressionism

Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris: Modern, Middle Class, and Masculine

Some of Gustave Caillebotte’s most famous paintings show the Parisian boulevards with an Impressionist aura. Yet what exactly he chose to...

Catriona Miller 20 August 2025

Gustave Caillebotte. Boating Party, about 1877–78. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Purchased thanks to the exclusive patronage of LVMH, 2022. Photo courtesy of GrandPalaisRmn (Musée d’Orsay) / Sophie Crépy Review

Gustave Caillebotte Painting His (Male) World at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago is the last of three institutions to be hosting a major monographic exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). It...

Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 20 August 2025

Impressionists, Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875 Impressionism

Gustave Caillebotte in 10 Paintings: A Different Impression

Think Impressionism, and Gustave Caillebotte is not the first name that springs to mind. Yet he helped organize the Impressionist exhibitions, he...

Catriona Miller 20 August 2025

Painting of a woman with a small black hat. Painting

Amedeo Modigliani in 10 Paintings

Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings radiate with uniqueness due to his specific way of portraying the subjects. A long oval head with small facial...

Nikolina Konjevod 18 August 2025

Art State of Mind

Art in the Golden Hour

The golden hour is a brief and awe inspiring moment filled with the most radiant light, intense colors, and deep shadows. For centuries artists have...

Marga Patterson 18 August 2025

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Mameluca Woman by Albert Eckhout

If any painting reminds me of both spring and fall, it is certainly Mameluca Woman by Albert Eckhout. This work is graceful for so many reasons.

Rute Ferreira 17 August 2025