J. M. W. Turner and Honore Daumier – Sign Of Their Times
The early part of the 19th Century saw population rises, expansions of cities and the industrialisation of productivity which brought new challenges...
Wendy Gray 2 April 2017
Art Movements
Rembrandt Self-Portrait With Curly Hair
Do you know which European museum has one of the most interesting collections of Rembrandt van Rijn’s etchings? It’s Rembrandt House...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 April 2017
6 Things You Must Know About Scrovegni Chapel
Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is one of the most famous Proto-Renaissance masterpieces. Decorated by Giotto di Bondone was completed in 1305 for the...
Zuzanna Stańska 31 March 2017
Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ
Yellow Christ is a painting created by Paul Gauguin in 1889 in Pont-Aven. Now it is owned by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 March 2017
Edgar Degas and the Paris Milliners
When we think of Edgar Degas, we see his depictions of ballet dancers, nude bathers, and racetracks. But Degas had another favorite subject – the...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 March 2017
The Darkness Of Titian’s Late Paintings
Titian had a long life. According to scholars he must have been 78 or 80 years old when he died. That was considered a miracle in an age when most...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 February 2017
Tammam Azzam And The Images Of A Destroyed Country
You may know the artist we want to feature today because of this image: Freedom Graffiti, Photograph courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery Born...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 February 2017
Mars And Venus, Sandro Botticelli (Painting Of The Week)
Valentines Day is coming. What else could we feature in our weekly series “Painting of the Week” if not a scene of Mars and Venus...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 February 2017
Watch Andy Warhol Screenprinting Marlon Brando
Andy Warhol started to experiment with screenprinting in the 1960s. In 1950s, Warhol was a prize-winning commercial artist and he devised a printing...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 February 2017
Watch Claude Monet Painting Outdoors
This is unique film of French Impressionist Claude Monet, painting outdoors, ‘en plein air’, in his famous garden at Giverny. Firstly we...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 January 2017
Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures
Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina,...
Piotr Policht 13 January 2017
Masterpiece Story: Portrait of Artist’s Mother by James McNeill Whistler
This is one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the United States. It has been variously described as an American icon and a...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 January 2017
