Almada Negreiros: The Man Who Loved All the Arts
Have you heard about the writer Almada Negreiros? He is the author of beautiful verses, like the Canção da Saudade, in which he says “if I...
Rute Ferreira 8 April 2018
Artist Stories
Meet Kun Can – Chinese Artist, One Of The “Four Great Monk Painters”
A Chinese painter and Buddhist monk who lived 1612-1674, Kun Can was known as one of the ‘Four Great Monk Painters’ of the early Qing Dynasty. As...
Barry Russell 29 March 2018
5 Portinari’s Paintings that Reveal that He Was the Painter of the Brazilian People
Portinari was the painter of Brazil. This statement refers not only to his nationality, but also to his work. During his life, the painter portrayed...
Rute Ferreira 3 March 2018
Stanley Spencer. A Cookham Homebird with Broken Wings
A recent documentary that was filmed with the help and support of Stanley Spencer’s two daughters, revealed the personal anguishes the family...
Wendy Gray 22 February 2018
When Trash Turns Art: El Anatsui
People often say that contemporary art is trash. But, can we turn the equation the other way and make trash art? El Anatsui’s grand...
Magda Michalska 15 February 2018
Frederick Stuart Church: Painter of Harmony
A lifetime of training could not have prepared Frederick Stuart Church for 1863. But his works of fantasy that came after clung to and perhaps even...
Anthony de Feo 12 February 2018
The Great Stanisław Wyspiański and His Many Talents
He is considered by many of his compatriots to have been something of a Leonardo da Vinci of the 19th century. Stanisław Wyspiański’s talents...
Pola Otterstein 10 January 2018
Artists who died in 2017
Today I decided to touch upon a sad and painful topic but I also think that the end of the year is a good occasion to pay tribute to those artists...
Magda Michalska 30 December 2017
The Last Landscape of William Langson Lathrop
William Langson Lathrop, September 21st, 1938, private collection The landscape of Long Island, New York drew a host of American Impressionists...
Anthony de Feo 24 November 2017
The Art of Thanksgiving by Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. He is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 November 2017
CRW Nevinson: A World of Men Enslaved to a Terrific Machine of Their Own Making
Nevinson aligned himself with the Italian futurists who celebrated and embraced the violence and mechanized speed of the modern age. However, his...
Wendy Gray 14 November 2017
Watch This Emotional Interview With Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 November 2017
