Diego Rivera’s Life in Self-Portraits
Diego Rivera is mostly famous for his controversial mural for the Rockefeller family and for being the husband of Frida Kahlo. Yet in his lifetime,...
Magda Michalska 10 February 2022
Diego Rivera is mostly famous for his controversial mural for the Rockefeller family and for being the husband of Frida Kahlo. Yet in his lifetime,...
Magda Michalska 10 February 2022
You may think you know everything about the genius of the Renaissance. But there are a few unknown facts about Leonardo da Vinci’s life that...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 February 2022
A master of the New York School who expatriated to France, Joan Mitchell tirelessly explored new ways of expression and reinvented the landscape in...
Louisa Mahoney 7 February 2022
Do you ever look at a work of art and wonder, how does the person behind it think? We always want to feel closer to the artists we admire. That is...
Elizaveta Ermakova 7 February 2022
“It is good for the future of cinema that Africa exists.” Born on January 23rd, 1945, in Colobane, a small town south-west of Dakar,...
Montaine Dumont 6 February 2022
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the first African-American to become an internationally successful artist, was known for his beautiful religious...
Alexandra Kiely 5 February 2022
African-American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson made headlines in January 2021. This happened when his Landscape with Rainbow was featured...
Alexandra Kiely 5 February 2022
Emma Amos is a great example of how a female black artist can effect change and become someone in a racist and sexist time. On May 20th, 2020, Amos...
Arianna Richetti 5 February 2022
It took Horace Pippin 43 years to complete his first oil painting. Why so long? Because poverty, hard physical work, war, and disabilities got in his...
Magda Michalska 1 February 2022
Jacobus Vrel is a ghostly figure in art history because, up to this moment, there is almost no official data about him. No record of his existence...
Irina Diana Calu 30 January 2022
Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) was a true world traveler. In his lifetime, Church visited the Arctic, Mexico, South...
Alexandra Kiely 29 January 2022
Until the advent of mass tourism, North Africa’s jewel, Morocco remained a relatively unknown world of Sultans, spices and sparse deserts. A number...
Charlotte Stace 29 January 2022