Chiura Obata: Alien Enemy and Great American Painter
Chiura Obata applied Japanese training and technique to picturesque California landscapes with stunning results. Interned during World War II because...
Theodore Carter 19 May 2025
Chiura Obata applied Japanese training and technique to picturesque California landscapes with stunning results. Interned during World War II because...
Theodore Carter 19 May 2025
When one thinks of any Golden Age, the first thing that comes to mind is the 17th-century Netherlands at its glory – the Dutch Golden Age. The most...
Nicole Ganbold 19 May 2025
With the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Walt Disney introduced visitors to an amusement park where the attractions and features are clustered around...
Guest Author 19 May 2025
Masterpiece discoveries are rare, so when one happens, it reaches the headlines. This is the case for a portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona...
Jimena Escoto 19 May 2025
Looking at a painting and getting hungry? It might be a bodegón! Here we define the genre of Spanish bodegones in the context of 17th-century...
Soledad Castillo Jara 19 May 2025
When we think of opera, art is not the first thing that comes to mind. Opera simply means “work” and it can sometimes seem over-the-top and...
Ledys Chemin 19 May 2025
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who lived and worked during the Dutch Golden Age. Along with Rembrandt and Frans Hals, he is considered one of...
Anastasia Manioudaki 19 May 2025
The Night Watch painted by Rembrandt van Rijn is a monumental canvas displayed today in the “Gallery of Honour” of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,...
Zuzanna Stańska, Nicole Ganbold 19 May 2025
Everyone knows The Girl with a Pearl Earring. She is the icon of European painting and considered one of the most famous female portraits – but is...
Anastasia Manioudaki, Nicole Ganbold 19 May 2025
In our Masterpiece Stories series we have something truly beautiful for you. I want to discuss Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church,...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 May 2025
J. M, W, Turner’s Rain, Steam, and Speed is a masterpiece of Victorian Romanticism infused with hopes, fears, and reminisces. It catapults the...
James W Singer 18 May 2025