Masterpiece Story: Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red
Sergei Shchukin once said “If a picture gives you a psychological shock, buy it. It’s a good one.” And the Matisse painting I would like to...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 December 2021
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Henri Matisse’s Cut-Outs
Coping with the difficulties of old age and illness in the years following World War II, Matisse nonetheless produced some of the most vibrant and...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 December 2021
Why Was Matisse Obsessed with Goldfish?
Goldfish here, goldfish there, in a bowl, in a tank, on a table, by the window, goldfish everywhere. Having been looking at Henri Matisse’s...
Magda Michalska 29 December 2021
Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel at the Barnes Foundation
In Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, shows how Valadon transitioned from an in-demand model to a...
Lauren Kraut 27 December 2021
Frans Post, First Landscape Painter of the Americas
Frans Post has gone down in art history as the first trained landscape painter to work in the Americas. In 1636, as a young man of just 24, he...
Nicole Ganbold 27 December 2021
Faith and Art: The Religious Art of William Hole
I invite you to take a closer look at a great Scottish etcher, muralist, and illustrator, William Hole (1846-1917) whom I discovered by chance when I...
Guest Profile 20 December 2021
Collective Impressions: Modern Native American Printmakers at the Georgia Museum of Art
Until Sunday, January 30th, 2022, the Georgia Museum of Art is exhibiting some of the most influential Native American printmakers at work today.
Candy Bedworth 20 December 2021
Childhood Memories and Winter Charm by Vladimír Kompánek
Considered by many to be the Slovak Kandinsky, the famous Slovak sculptor and painter Vladimír Kompánek through the reduction of reality into...
Caroline Galambosova 20 December 2021
Masterpiece Story: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Kunsthistorisches Museum, meaning the Museum of Art History, is located in Vienna, Austria. It is the largest art gallery in the country, housing...
Anastasia Manioudaki 19 December 2021
Titian’s Vision of Women at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
The Titian’s Vision of Women. Beauty–Love–Poetry exhibition is a major highlight of Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna that runs from 5...
Nicole Ganbold 19 December 2021
The City Where the Sun Never Sets: The Grounded Sun in Zagreb
No matter the weather conditions, there has always been sun in Zagreb for the last 50 years, 365 days a year, with few interruptions. This is thanks...
Petra Dragasevic 16 December 2021
Kandinsky’s Inspiration? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists
Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with garden was a curse (because...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
