8 Things Everyone Should Know About Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism. His best works, painted in the open air, vividly portray...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 February 2025
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Kandinsky’s Magic World of Fairy Tales
Wassily Kandinsky, a renowned abstract artist, is chiefly associated with Der Blaue Reiter, an international group of avant-garde artists based in...
Magda Michalska 26 February 2025
Dive into the World of Fairy Tales with Čiurlionis
Wouldn’t it be nice to immerse yourself in a fairy tale? Hike among the heroes, fight monsters, visit enchanted lands… It would be a nice break...
Guest Author 26 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This beautiful painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known under two titles. The first one – Two Sisters (in French: Les Deux Sœurs) was given to...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: The Theatre Box by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Entertainments such as cabarets, theatres, and the circus were popular themes among the Impressionist painters whose mission was portraying modern...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 February 2025
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Impressive Life of an Impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading member of Impressionism, was perhaps the most vibrant painter of color and light in the famous French movement.
Sam Malone 25 February 2025
Lise Tréhot—The Mysterious Beauty from Renoir’s Paintings
Born into a humble French family, Lise Tréhot (1848–1922) was an artist’s model who posed exclusively for Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919).
Anuradha Sroha 24 February 2025
Want to Insult Your Enemy? Get Inspired by the Badass Zaporozhian Cossacks!
There are dozens if not hundreds of forged documents in the history of the world. They weren’t forged just for fun. Some of them were the basis...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 February 2025
Celebrating Alma Thomas: An African American Expressionist
Abstract Expressionism was a movement dominated by male artists. Painters such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning have held center...
Heather Johnson 24 February 2025
10 Marvellous Madonna Paintings
10 paintings from across art history, focusing on Madonna, the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
Candy Bedworth 24 February 2025
Anatoliy Kryvolap’s Evolution of Color: Emotional Paintings of the Ukrainian Artist
Anatoliy Kryvolap is a contemporary Ukrainian artist whose paintings are sold at the world’s most prestigious auctions for thousands of dollars. He...
Nataliia Pecherska 24 February 2025
Meet the Ukrainian Railroad Ladies
Every once in a while there appears a piece of news describing a quirky, unknown, or forgotten occupation. Sometimes it’s the lightkeepers in a...
Joanna Kaszubowska 24 February 2025
