Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Unknown Expressionist
Some time ago, I came across a fascinating German Expressionist who was not part of the famous Die Brücke group. All the more, this painter was a...
Magda Michalska 15 June 2022
Some time ago, I came across a fascinating German Expressionist who was not part of the famous Die Brücke group. All the more, this painter was a...
Magda Michalska 15 June 2022
Expressionism developed the ideas of Post-Impressionism and became another prominent trend in the history of art. Some of its most remarkable...
Nataliia Pecherska 15 June 2022
To a 21st century viewer, the portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées might seem homo-erotic. However, pictured with her sister, the Duchess of Villars,...
Anna Ingram 14 June 2022
Most art fans know the names of the male avant-garde artists in the early 1900s, but fewer people know of the women who mastered the craft. Marie...
Guest Profile 13 June 2022
From its very inception, subjects taken from literature were a staple for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Shakespeare, Keates, and Tennyson were...
Anastasia Manioudaki 13 June 2022
Tamara de Lempicka was many things: a successful artist, a society darling, and an expat. She knew how to create interest in herself and capitalize...
Joanna Kaszubowska 13 June 2022
Egon Schiele’s nudes can challenge us and our preconceptions of the artistic tradition of the “nude”. He didn’t paint or draw...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 June 2022
Art is a serious thing. But sometimes some associations once they pop up in your head just can’t disappear. I didn’t find any scientific...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 June 2022
Recently I found myself asking: why have I never realized Egon Schiele’s orange obsession? Clearly, there are many of his paintings that...
Magda Michalska 12 June 2022
Austrian artist Egon Schiele is best known for his shamelessly erotic and frank representations of human form. But alongside his startlingly...
Jon Kelly 12 June 2022
June was chosen as the Month of Pride to commemorate riots in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC, which were a response to a...
Magda Michalska 10 June 2022
A youthful Bacchus, god of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theatre is reclining in classical fashion with grapes and vine leaves in...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 June 2022