Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the Van Gogh Museum
In January 2019, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam announced that the painting Sunflowers will not be leaving Amsterdam anymore due to its fragile...
Joanna Kaszubowska 21 June 2019
Art Movements
Painting of the Week: Eduardo Paolozzi, I was a Rich Man’s Plaything
Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1947 collage I was a Rich Man’s Plaything, which can be seen in the Tate Modern in London, was one of the first works...
Chris Dobson 16 June 2019
How to Become an Old Master? Turn on the Youtube First!
I can’t draw, I can’t paint, I can’t sculpt or do pottery. But I can watch videos on Rijksmuseum Youtube channel called...
Magda Michalska 13 June 2019
The Lewis Chessmen and Their Long-Lost Brother
The Lewis Chessmen are among the world’s most recognizable works of medieval art, right up there with the Unicorn Tapestries and the Book of...
Alexandra Kiely 10 June 2019
Painting of the Week: Masaccio, The Tribute Money
There are many artists and paintings which I return to over and over again. Artists like Giotto, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Vermeer, van Eyck, Cassatt,...
Rachel Witte 9 June 2019
A Feeling of Nostalgia: Art by Fu Wenjun
For centuries, China was one of the greatest and wealthiest civilizations, and perhaps it is now returning to its historical position. Artist Fu...
Roma Piotrowska 8 June 2019
Pentelic Splendour: The Erechtheion Caryatids
I visited Athens, Greece in the summer of 2016. Naturally a visit to the Acropolis was mandatory, and it was as beautiful and epic as you can...
Nadine Waldmann 3 June 2019
How British was Van Gogh?
The exhibition Van Gogh and Britain at the Tate Britain brings together over 50 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain...
Joanna Kaszubowska 1 June 2019
Artistic Life in the Time of the Bonapartes. Ingres at Palazzo Reale
An artist impossible to classify, a revolutionary one, both realistic and mannerist, perceived as the heir of Raphael and a precursor of Picasso.
Maria Frazzoni 29 May 2019
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst in British Museum
“We do not want pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want… an art that arrests and engages. An art of one’s innermost...
Joanna Kaszubowska 23 May 2019
Gentle Giant in the River. Medieval Representations of Saint Christopher
In 1904, an extensive report made for the British Archaeological Association revealed that in England there were more wall paintings of Saint...
Guest Profile 21 May 2019
People, Subways and Mystery – Early Rothko’s Paintings Will Surprise You
There is no doubt that when we think of Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), we see his large, abstract canvases, which were representations of human...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 May 2019
