The Great Stanisław Wyspiański and His Many Talents
He is considered by many of his compatriots to have been something of a Leonardo da Vinci of the 19th century. Stanisław Wyspiański’s talents...
Pola Otterstein 10 January 2018
Art Movements
Enlightenment and Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’
Artists of the turn of the 17th and 18th century started to secularise traditional subject matters: science and intellectual exploration began to...
Magda Michalska 8 January 2018
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is mysterious an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2017
Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
The reason is: at the time, philosophers thought that Christ was born like a “perfectly formed and unchanged” man, aka he came out...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 December 2017
Was Nicolas Poussin a Baroque Artist?
Nicolas Poussin is often considered a representative of French Baroque, as he worked in the first half of the 1600s. Yet, his paintings are so...
Magda Michalska 16 November 2017
Time For… The Intervention of the Sabine Women
The Intervention of the Sabine Women is one of these paintings that is widely known, and considered to be a “classic” but rarely someone...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 November 2017
Everything You Must Know About James Ensor
Halloween is coming and in our team we were thinking who should we feature tomorrow on our DailyArt app (available for free on iOS and Android).
Zuzanna Stańska 30 October 2017
Learn More About Man Ray’s Cadeau
Man Ray’s Cadeau, 1921, editioned replica 1972, known also as a ‘Gift’, is one of the famous icons of the surrealist movement. It consists...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 October 2017
Join Salvador Dali in Alice’s Wonderland
Salvador Dalí was a man of many talents – the most famous of Surrealists, he created not only iconic paintings of 20th century but also Chupa...
Zuzanna Stańska 16 October 2017
Painting Of The Week – Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci – was on everyone’s lips when it went on the market. Leonardo da Vinci (attributed), Salvator...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 October 2017
Auguste Renoir – Two Young Girls at the Piano
In late 1891 or early 1892 Renoir was invited by the French government to execute a painting for a new museum in Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg,...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 October 2017
Watch Frank Stella Commenting On His Art in 1972
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 October 2017
