The Best of Lucian Freud – Hotheaded Narcissus and Brilliant Painter
Lucian Freud was born on this day in 1922. It’s a perfect occasion to take look at some of his greatest paintings. He was conventional in a...
Piotr Policht 8 December 2016
Artist Stories
Tangled Up in Blue: The Art of Edward Krasiński
In Tate Liverpool, up to March 2017, you can see an exhibition of Edward Krasiński’s work. Krasiński was one of the most interesting and...
Piotr Policht 23 November 2016
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Claude Monet
On this day in 1840 Claude Monet, one of the main founders French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 November 2016
8 Best Selfies From Art History
Whoever criticizes the fashion of selfies, must have forgotten that selfies have existed for a really loooooooong time in painting. Here comes a...
Magda Michalska 5 November 2016
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress Of Montmartre
She started as a model because she didn’t have money for professional painting classes. She would watch the artists for whom she worked, such...
Magda Michalska 23 September 2016
The Static World In Motion of Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century photographer who proved that horses can fly. Today Muybridge is famous for his pioneering work on animal...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 September 2016
My name is Sofonisba And I’m Michelangelo’s Gal
And I don’t mean it as a mistress, no, no, I’m a respectable girl who comes from a little poor but still a noble family of Cremona. When...
Magda Michalska 7 September 2016
Han van Meegeren: Vermeer’s Forger And His Fakes
Who wouldn’t love to discover an unknown original painting by Johannes Vermeer? It must be a blissful moment to find an untouched and...
Magda Michalska 2 September 2016
15 Art Superstars and Their Studios
Everybody needs a workplace. For every artist his studio is a very important place. Take a look at this selection of the superstar artists and their...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 August 2016
Titian’s Women Who Are In Fact The Same Woman
Titian had it all. He was so talented that people called him after Dante’s Paradiso “The sun amidst small stars”. He knew how to...
Magda Michalska 28 August 2016
Rembrandt And His Saddest Love Story
You know Rembrandt and his portraits in hats. You know his biblical scenes and his views of Amsterdam. You could recognize his style from afar. But...
Magda Michalska 21 August 2016
Gustave Caillebotte’s Urban Intimacy
Gustave Caillebotte was a master of urban intimacy. He was a member and patron of the artists known as Impressionists, in fact he painted in a much...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 August 2016
