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
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All Faces of František Kupka
First time I came across František Kupka’s work was in the Centre Pompidou and I thought: “Wow, he was such an interesting guy and I...
Magda Michalska 27 May 2019
Painting of the Week: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: The Lesson
Many people know John Singer Sargent for his beautiful oil paintings of turn-of-the-century high society. However, he also made many lovely...
Alexandra Kiely 26 May 2019
Geek Art
The geek-art community has an affluent and acquisitive sub culture that has a seemingly insatiable thirst for paintings, models and sculptures. Pop...
Candy Bedworth 25 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
A House of Their Own: The Red Rose Girls
In an old house in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, four women made their home and their art together. Three decades before...
Guest Profile 18 May 2019
Lubaina Himid’s Dinner Service at the V&A
In 2017, Lubaina Himid won the Turner Prize (and she was the oldest winner ever, aged 63!). Ten years before she presented her work Swallow Hard: The...
Magda Michalska 14 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
Painting of the Week: Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú
Abaporú: a painting that was a birthday gift from a wife to a husband, from Tarsila do Amaral to Oswaldo de Andrade. This work was a symbol of the...
Alicja Gluszek 12 May 2019
Masking and Unmasking Women in Art
Just a few weeks ago, Venice was transformed into a different world. It was carnival and people in masks were strolling through the city. There is a...
Katharina Windorfer 10 May 2019
Josef Šíma: from Czech Republic to Paris
Josef Šíma was born in Jaromer, in today’s Czech Republic in 1891, but he became a naturalized French citizen (he took the citizenship...
Magda Michalska 9 May 2019
That’s so Retro(spective): Highlights from Frieze Art Fair New York
Frieze 2019 surely had its share of new, quirky works of art, but many of the works on view were in dialogue with the artists and artistic practices...
Sara Miranda 8 May 2019
