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
Art Movements
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
Annibale Carracci: The Inventor of Baroque Painting?
When did Mannierism give way to a new style? Was it with Caravaggio‘s dramatic lighting or Rubens‘s opulence? Can we distinguish a...
Magda Michalska 27 September 2017
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge
Claude Monet in 1924 wrote: “It took me a long time to understand my water lilies…. I grew them without thinking of painting them…. And...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 September 2017
The Story Of Two Casanova Brothers, Who Happened To Be Painters
When we hear Casanova we think of Giacomo the famous adventurer, who in his autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life) described often...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 September 2017
Cézanne’s Postimpressionist Portraits At The Musée d’Orsay
Paul Cézanne was a French artist widely acknowledged for bridging the late years of Impressionism and the early years of Postimpressionism.
Pola Otterstein 12 September 2017
Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
This is a typical Vermeer – an ideal woman in an ideal home. In fact, everything around is ideal. Balanced shapes and colors (mainly the...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 September 2017
Salvador Dali Exhumation Shows The Truth About His Fatherhood And Mustache
Couple of weeks ago we were informing that Salvador Dali’s remains will be exhumed in Spain to collect samples for use in a paternity...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 September 2017
The World As Seen Through de Chirico’s Surrealistic Eyes
Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist born in Greece in 1888. He started his education in Athens and Florence. Later he attended The Academy of...
Pola Otterstein 1 September 2017
The Tragic Tale Of The Gierymski Brothers
It is rare to see two siblings as talented and successful – and on the same artistic level – as the Gierymski brothers were, and their...
Pola Otterstein 19 August 2017
