Caravaggio, The Musicians
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a man of many faces. One of the most important baroque painters, he used a realistic painting...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 November 2018
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Paul Gauguin – Master or Monster?
When Paul Gauguin visited Tahiti in the 1890’s was he a genius in search of paradise, or a seedy sex tourist? A painter, printmaker,...
Candy Bedworth 16 November 2018
A Floating World of Claude Monet
One of my greatest surprises of 2018 is Albertina’s monographic exhibition of Claude Monet. My astonishment was caused only by my bias –...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 November 2018
Crash Course in Impressionism – Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
The Courtauld Gallery will remain closed for a while, as it is being transformed. But this does not mean we cannot see the Impressionist masterpieces...
Joanna Kaszubowska 8 November 2018
Osvaldo Licini’s Rebel Angels and Sheer Folly
Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away is the name of a new retrospective in Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicated to a Modernist Italian artist...
Magda Michalska 7 November 2018
Władysław Ślewiński, Woman Combing her Hair
Władysław Ślewiński was a leading artist of the Young Poland movement and one of the first Polish artists who went to Paris. It was unusual since...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 November 2018
Ivana Kobilca: The First Lady of Slovenia
Melania Trump should not be the only Slovenian woman that the world can think of. There is also a painter, Ivana Kobilca, whose independence,...
Magda Michalska 2 November 2018
Salvador Dalí, The Hallucinogenic Toreador
When someone says Surrealism, I bet one of the first things that come to mind is the name of the artist Salvador Dalí, right? This is natural, as...
Rute Ferreira 28 October 2018
Masterpiece Story: Autumn Effects at Argenteuil by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted Autumn Effects at Argenteuil in late 1873, which was the moment when the Impressionist movement started to roar on the Paris art...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 October 2018
Edward Hopper, Soir Bleu
Loneliness in the crowd. We’re at a café somewhere in France. Seven people sat at the tables: a powdered prostitute, a clown with white make-up,...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 October 2018
First glances and second chances – how I learned to love Elizabeth Frink
Statues by Elizabeth Frink litter the British landscape. Born in 1930, she was a Dame, a CBE, a Royal Academician and a Companion of Honour. She was...
Candy Bedworth 6 October 2018
Chihuly Glass at Biltmore Estate – A Spectacular Garden Exhibition
While on vacation this past week, I got to see a real treat – an exhibition of Chihuly glass at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North...
Alexandra Kiely 2 October 2018
