Boterismo in Art: Fernando Botero’s Chubby Paintings
Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, demonstrates how differently we can all view the same object. Although Botero was known for depicting everything...
Gabriela Hurtado 15 September 2023
Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, demonstrates how differently we can all view the same object. Although Botero was known for depicting everything...
Gabriela Hurtado 15 September 2023
We can all recognize Mondrian’s work in a second. Our eyes navigate through the lines jumping from color to color. His artistic career...
Celia Leiva Otto 13 September 2023
Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important German artists of his generation, was born on this day in 1774. He is mostly known for his...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 September 2023
Raphael Santi, one of the greatest Renaissance painters died on Good Friday in 1520. He was only 37 years old and at the peak of his artistic powers.
Zuzanna Stańska 31 August 2023
The artworks of French painter Auguste Renoir are renowned for their light, conspicuous brushstrokes, as well as their pure beauty. Behind mastery...
Rute Ferreira 31 August 2023
Erna Rosenstein was born Jewish. This fact weighed on her whole life because Rosenstein’s family lived in Lviv, Ukraine, and to complicate things...
Magda Michalska 25 August 2023
Fedir Krychevsky lovingly recorded the culture of his homeland and was one of the most influential Modernist Ukrainian painters.
Candy Bedworth 24 August 2023
Mykola Pymonenko (1862-1912) was a Ukrainian realist painter. He spent almost his entire life in Kyiv and dedicated his career to painting genre...
Jimena Escoto 24 August 2023
Taras Shevchenko was an outstanding Ukrainian artist and poet. Born to a peasant family, he became a Ukrainian liberty idol and national artistic...
Kateryna Martynova 24 August 2023
Thérèse Schwartze (1851–1918) grew up in an artistic family in Amsterdam. Her father Johann Georg Schwartze was a painter and he introduced his...
Europeana 21 August 2023
Balkan performing artist Marina Abramovic was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Serbia. Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen) was born on the same day as she, a few...
Caroline Galambosova 18 August 2023
Her life story reads like a script tailor-made for a movie (are you listening, Hollywood?). After all, how often do we encounter narratives of...
Magda Michalska 16 August 2023