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Art State of Mind

Need A Hug? Paintings Which Embrace

Are you having a pretty bad week? Recently I have been really stressed and desperately needed a hug. If you need one too, I’m sending you some...

Magda Michalska 2 February 2017

Women Artists

Elsie Driggs And Her Battle For Large Forms

It’s hard to imagine that a female artist could be advised to leave her work unsigned to avoid prejudicing the gallery owner, but for women artists...

Wendy Gray 31 January 2017

Artist Stories

David Bomberg – A New Machinery For Picture Making

Go into any art gallery the length and breadth of the UK and you are bound to find a Bomberg. David Bomberg, born in Birmingham in 1890 to...

Wendy Gray 25 January 2017

Cats

Fat Cat Art – Cat’s Guide to Classic Art

There was one fat cat in the world that made all art in the world better. And it’s not my cat unfortunately. It’s Zarathustra. Have you...

Zuzanna Stańska 24 January 2017

Women Artists

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim: A Never Understood Daughter

You must have heard of the family Guggenheim, wealthy merchants who with time became the prominent art collectors and patrons of modern art. You...

Magda Michalska 18 January 2017

Bizarre

Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures

Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina,...

Piotr Policht 13 January 2017

Museum Stories

How To Tackle Art With Kids: Try Some Philosophy!

Discover 3 artworks, the questions they raise and what children have to say about them. At the Kröller-Müller Museum we have been experimenting...

Sandra Boks 12 January 2017

Women Artists

Beyond Flowers And Desert, Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York

She is definitely best known for her subtle, sometimes almost abstract depictions of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. But there’s also...

Piotr Policht 6 January 2017

Abstract Expressionism

Abstraction In Creation – Watch Gerhard Richter At Work

If you ever doubted in abstract paintings you must see this video. Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist who was born in 1932. He produces...

Zuzanna Stańska 29 December 2016

Artist Stories

The Private Collection of Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was one of the greatest Impressionists. He was also an art collector. His collection, revealed after his death, was remarkable not only...

Zuzanna Stańska 28 December 2016

Masterpiece Stories

Holy Night by Correggio

The Holy Night by Correggio also known as Nativity or the Adoration of the Shepherds, was commissioned by Alberto Pratoneri for his family chapel in...

Zuzanna Stańska 25 December 2016

Artist Stories

How Yves Klein Played with Gold

Two weeks ago, we showed you some art of Edward Krasiński whose exhibition you can see right now at Tate Liverpool. There’s another great...

Piotr Policht 15 December 2016