Art-Inspired Floral Designs at the San Diego Museum of Art
Every year since 1981, the San Diego Museum of Art has set aside a spring weekend for Art Alive, an exhibition of art-inspired floral designs. For...
Alexandra Kiely 8 May 2020
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Female Nude Codes in Painting From Giorgione’s Venus to Odalisques and Olympias
Museums are filled with paintings of nude women. It is a very codified practice that has changed over the ages. Giorgione’s Sleeping Venus...
Maia Heguiaphal 5 May 2020
10 Highlights from the Van Gogh Museum
In a museum dedicated to a painter like Vincent van Gogh, you are bound to find more than ten highlights. But since we all like lists, and as lists...
Joanna Kaszubowska 3 May 2020
Gradiva: What Did Freud and the Surrealists See in Her?
A woman who walks. That’s what Gradiva (the name of an anonymous woman from an antique bas-relief) means, as given by a fictional character...
Magda Michalska 27 April 2020
Quarantine Times: These Artists Performed at Their Best Alone
Most of us don’t escape the obligation of some kind of quarantine in these corona-driven times. Social distancing and isolation are keywords in...
Michel Rutten 25 April 2020
Recommended Quarantine Routine Inspired by Art
Are you looking for activities to pass your time as you patiently (or not so patiently) wait for the Coronavirus pandemic to subside? Here are some...
Maya M. Tola 24 April 2020
Roman Holidays: Italian Landscapes Through the Eyes of Russian Artists
It is well known that Italy is a motherland of world masterpieces. Renaissance paintings, baroque architecture and Italian opera are the children of...
Guest Author 23 April 2020
Art Memes in the Time of Quarantine
Memes seem to be the way that our generation sees the world. We send, make, and, most of all, laugh at them. It may not come as a surprise then that...
Rachel Witte 22 April 2020
Best Moments of Apple’s Hermitage Museum Journey
The Apple company recently presented a film that was shot within the State Hermitage Museum in Saint-Petersburg. It shows 45 halls and 600 works of...
Elizaveta Ermakova 21 April 2020
Lowbrow Art, Subcultural Movement or Legitimate Art Generation?
Somewhere between the late 1960s and the 1970s, a new artistic movement emerged from the underground scene. At that time it didn’t have any...
Errika Gerakiti 21 April 2020
10 Facts You Need to Know About Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. Once you see his art, you will never forget it. He depicts people and figures in...
Zuzanna Stańska 19 April 2020
Exploring Place with Emily Thomas
Emily Thomas is a 24 years old, British emerging artist. Her bright and vibrant sculptural work is distinctive and abstract at first glance. However,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 17 April 2020
