Masterpiece Story: Rainbow at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro has an interesting portfolio of paintings. His works are divided between cosmopolitan views of Paris and countryside views of...
James W Singer 7 December 2024
Art Movements
Ed Wheeler’s Santa Classics: Santa Claus and Masterpieces
Photographer Ed Wheeler has been dressing up as Santa Claus for years and posing in hilarious compositions. He started over 20 years ago with...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 December 2024
5 Facts about the Counter-Reformation in Art You Need to Know
The Counter-Reformation was the Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation spreading through Europe during the Renaissance.
Anna Ingram 5 December 2024
Billie Bond’s Kintsugi: The Crack Is Where the Light Gets in
Kintsugi (金継ぎ translates as “gold joinery”) is a Japanese art form and philosophy of repairing broken or cracked pottery with gold...
Nadine Waldmann 5 December 2024
The Veiled Christ: Art or Alchemy?
In the nave of the Sansevero Chapel in Naples there is a unique sculpture depicting Jesus after the crucifixion. His body is covered with a thin...
Rachel Istvan 5 December 2024
The Dazzling Davies Sisters and Their Impressionist Art Collection
The Davies sisters grew up in a remote corner of Victorian Wales. They were religious, teetotal and never married. But these demure young women, with...
Candy Bedworth 5 December 2024
Watch Kandinsky Drawing on a Rare Footage from 1926
In 1926, filmmaker Hans Cürlis, a pioneer of art documentaries, took this rare footage of the abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky on video. The...
Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 4 December 2024
Wassily Kandinsky in 5 Abstract Paintings
As a visual genius, Wassily Kandinsky revolutionized abstract art and pioneered some of the most influential art movements of the 20th century. His...
Ruxi Rusu 4 December 2024
5 Myths About Dada Deconstructed
Considered a pivotal moment in art history, a lot has been said about the Dada movement. Rejecting everything (even themselves!) Dada members...
Amélie Pascutto 3 December 2024
Lady Dada? Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Revolution of Conceptual Art
When Doja Cat sparkled in 30,000 crimson Swarovski crystals at Paris Fashion Week, the American rapper walked down the red carpet literally a statue...
Kero Fichter 3 December 2024
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and Why It Matters
Few artists have been as versatile and as bold as Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). He was a painter, a sculptor, and a photographer; he was a seminal...
Guest Author 3 December 2024
Dreams That Money Can Buy: Crazy Visions by 6 Dadaist Artists
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) is a Dadaist portmanteau movie, an unknown cinematographic masterpiece combining surrealistic and experimental...
Caroline Galambosova 3 December 2024
