Artists and Their Myths
Sometimes, the story that is attached to an artist is as important as their craft. Let’s take a look at artists and the myths that are related to...
Noa Weisberg 7 September 2020
Art History 101
Royal Portraits: The Art of Image OLD VERSION
Shakespeare once wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” For monarchs...
Abreeza Thomas 16 August 2020
Carnations in Art
Carnations have been called the flower of the gods and have a long history that dates back thousands of years. This beautiful flower has many...
Maya M. Tola 15 June 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Primitivism
Primitivism was a facet of Modern art inspired by the works of untrained artists in non-industrialized societies, namely tribal Africa and Oceania.
Alexandra Kiely 10 June 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
Titian’s Venus and Adonis (Metamorphoses III)
In a series of articles we are going to meet each of the seven Poesies, which Titian delivered Phillip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s.
Isla Phillips-Ewen 11 December 2019
Titian’s Danae (Metamorphoses II)
In a series of articles we are going to meet each of the seven Poesies, which Titian delivered Phillip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s.
Isla Phillips-Ewen 2 December 2019
Iconography of Ganesh
Ganesh is the patron God of writers and intellectuals, and arguably the most well-known of the Hindu Gods. He is worshipped across all sects of...
Maya M. Tola 12 November 2019
Open to Influences – Arthur Hacker and his Mary with Many Qualities
Arthur Hacker was a painter of the late Victorian era. Painting a spectrum of subjects, everything from society portraiture, classical, religious and...
Hannah Demaine 12 October 2019
Logomania – Words in Art
What do Jean-Michel Basquiat, The François Vase, Tracey Emin and Xu Bing have in common? Words! So, in the spirit of light summer reading,...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 1 August 2019
Art Afterpieces. How Internet Didn’t Come up with Anything New
Playing with the greatest masterpieces by adding to them contemporary elements, like inserting a smartphone into a hand of a Pre-Raphaelite lady,...
Magda Michalska 3 July 2019
Sixth Sense? Allegories of Senses in Painting
How to show our sensual experiences visually? The human senses made out one of the most appealing subjects for European painters, especially that...
Magda Michalska 26 June 2019
