Iconic Colors in Art History
Every person probably dreams of leaving a legacy to the world. For artists this is a central goal and they try to do it through their masterpieces of...
Camilla de Laurentis 22 January 2022
Art History 101
What Makes an Artwork Famous?
Michelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci. Pablo Picasso. Georgia O’Keeffe. Rembrandt. The Renaissance. Cubism. Impressionism. More than likely, you have...
Rachel Witte 20 January 2022
How to Create a Mosaic? Learn the Techniques with Artist Alison Pierse
Let’s talk tiles! Come on a journey to explore mosaic techniques and terminology with artist and tutor Alison Pierse. If you don’t know your...
Candy Bedworth 11 January 2022
4 Readymades by Marcel Duchamp You Should Know
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism,...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 December 2021
Best 15 Fashion Photographers of All Time OLD VERSION
From the very first moment of the invention of photography in 1816 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the newly discovered medium became used in various...
Caroline Galambosova 16 August 2021
All the Prodigal Sons in Art
A quick internet search for “the Prodigal Son in art” yields some 13,000,000 results! What makes this 2,000-year-old story so compelling that...
Ledys Chemin 27 November 2020
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
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
