The Beautiful Portraiture of Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) is the most important American society painter that you probably have never heard of. She was a popular artist and a...
Alexandra Kiely 9 January 2018
Special
Edward Hopper, New York Interior
Edward Hopper arrived for the first time to New York around the turn of the 20th century. He then studied with Robert Henri and embraced the Ashcan...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 January 2018
Artists who died in 2017
Today I decided to touch upon a sad and painful topic but I also think that the end of the year is a good occasion to pay tribute to those artists...
Magda Michalska 30 December 2017
Piero della Francesca, Nativity
Among Piero della Francesca’s surviving paintings, the last one in chronological order is the Nativity in the National Gallery in London. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 December 2017
Robert Rauschenberg, Automobile Tire Print
Automobile Tire Print is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most intriguing collaborative efforts. In 1953, the artist directed composer John Cage to...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 December 2017
Have A Look At Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi just opened on November 11th, 10 years after the project was announced in 2007. The art museum, designed by French architect Jean...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 December 2017
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is mysterious an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2017
Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
The reason is: at the time, philosophers thought that Christ was born like a “perfectly formed and unchanged” man, aka he came out...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 December 2017
The True Story of American Gothic According to SNL
If you ever wondered how famous paintings were created, how exactly looked the process of creation, setting up the sitters, choosing their...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 December 2017
Edward Hopper, Tables for Ladies
Edward Hopper painted “Tables for Ladies” in 1930 and it showed a sad little restaurant with a sad cashier and a sadder looking waitress.
Zuzanna Stańska 3 December 2017
Running In Museums? Run with Martin Creed
Have you ever entered a museum five minutes before closing and thus had to run to see as much as possible? Such a thing happened to Martin Creed, a...
Magda Michalska 27 November 2017
Painting of the Week: Félix Vallotton, The Lie
Today’s painting, created by Felix Vallotton (one of my favorite artists), was painted in 1897 – but it could just as easily be a scene...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 November 2017
