Chocolate in Painting for a Cozy Evening
Although December has been extremely warm this year, I still crave a good old hot chocolate and a cozy evening under the blankets. We present to you...
Magda Michalska 22 December 2021
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Cooking in Pictures—The Food of Art and the Art of Food
Long before Julia Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, artists the world over had already made the connection between food and art.
Ledys Chemin 22 December 2021
The Scent of Orange in the Wintery Air: Portraits with Oranges
What does winter smell to you like? For me, it’s the scent of cinnamon-spiced gingerbread, mulled wine, and of course mandarins. My grandma...
Magda Michalska 21 December 2021
Most Famous Winter in Art History: Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel
In the Bruegel Room in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, 12 paintings hang in the space. They cover the final ten year period of the life of Pieter...
Wendy Gray 21 December 2021
Winter in Paris: Rooftops in the Snow by Gustave Caillebotte
You open your eyes to the early morning light filtering through your windows. You instantly feel the cold air of the bedroom as you see your warm...
James W Singer 21 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: Cuno Amiet, Snowy Landscape (Deep Winter)
These are the shortest days of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s dark and cold outside, but there are two things which brighten the...
Kate Wojtczak 21 December 2021
Meeting Abstract Expressionist Perle Fine
To think about the abstract expressionists is almost certainly to picture Jackson Pollock with cans and brushes in hand, dipping paint into large...
Natalia Tiberio 20 December 2021
Faith and Art: The Religious Art of William Hole
I invite you to take a closer look at a great Scottish etcher, muralist, and illustrator, William Hole (1846-1917) whom I discovered by chance when I...
Guest Profile 20 December 2021
Childhood Memories and Winter Charm by Vladimír Kompánek
Considered by many to be the Slovak Kandinsky, we would like to present to you the famous Slovak sculptor and painter Vladimír Kompánek who,...
Caroline Galambosova 20 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Kunsthistorisches Museum, meaning the Museum of Art History, is located in Vienna, Austria. It is the largest art gallery in the country, housing...
Anastasia Manioudaki 19 December 2021
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
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
