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
Art Movements
Big Mr Sunshine: Portraits of Louis XIV
September is the month of Louis XIV: he was born on the 5th and died on the 1st of September. He was definitely a great arts patron but sadly a...
Magda Michalska 3 October 2017
The Best Landscape Paintings to Greet Autumn
Now that summer is officially over, looking through the window in many places is all about rain and clouds. To inspire us with the more beautiful...
Pola Otterstein 28 September 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
Mannerism? Watch Your Manners!
Young artists who left workshops in the years following the activity of Michelangelo and Raphael must have had a very hard time: how could one create...
Magda Michalska 19 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
Marilyn in Art: The Essence of a Goddess
Marilyn Monroe: the most photographed woman in the world! Glamour, cheesecake, publicity, nude, candid- she was captured on film and on fans’...
Wendy Gray 23 August 2017
