Kandinsky’s Inspiration? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists
Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with garden was a curse (because...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
Artist Stories
Kandinsky’s World of Russian Fairy Tales
155 years ago today, Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow! He is chiefly associated with Der Blaue Reiter, an international group of avant-garde...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
Lady in Blue: Yelizaveta Martynova, Ill-Fated Russian Female Artist
Can you name some female artists, and from Russia in particular? It’s difficult even for those who are really into art. This article tells the...
Kateryna Martynova 10 December 2021
Zinaida Serebriakova, First Famous Female Russian Artist
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884–1967) is mostly known for her painting At the Dressing-Table (Self-Portrait). The artist, looking from the...
Elizaveta Ermakova 10 December 2021
Julian Stanczak and His Abstract Life
You may think that experiences such as forced labor in Siberia, losing the nerves in his dominant arm, or ending up in a refugee camp would have...
Magda Michalska 3 December 2021
Marsden Hartley: An Overlooked Modernist
Marsden Hartley was a ground-breaking modernist, ostracized from the art world at the height of his career. Today he remains sidelined as a...
Louisa Mahoney 18 November 2021
Sir William Orpen: The Official Artist of the First World War
Initially known for society portraits, Sir William Orpen (the knighthood came after the end of the war) became an official artist of the First World...
Wendy Gray 11 November 2021
A Perfect World of Perfect Women in James Tissot’s Paintings
This title might be a little controversial. In fact, critics find the term demimondaine to be more accurate when describing James Tissot’s series...
Magda Michalska 15 October 2021
5 Things You Should Know About Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in the Dutch Golden Age. Along with Rembrandt and Frans Hals, he is considered one of the...
Anastasia Manioudaki 13 October 2021
A Unique Artist Encounter: When Ara Güler Met Pablo Picasso
Whether photography is purely art or a branch of journalism can be a subject of discussion. For photographer Ara Güler, the artistic quality of his...
Merve Parla 16 September 2021
Living in the Shadow – Marie and Peder Severin Krøyer
Marie and Peder Severin Krøyer were a 19th and early 20th century couple, and, while their marriage and lives were far from ideal, history has...
Pola Otterstein 8 September 2021
9 Facts About Caspar David Friedrich You Should Know
Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important German artist of his generation, was born on this day in 1774. He is mostly known for...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2021
