The Wounded Angel By Hugo Simberg
Two boys carry a stretcher, bearing an angel dressed in white. The angel is clearly ill – her eyes are bandaged, the wing is bloodied and she...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2018
Masterpiece Stories
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 February 2018
Marc Chagall, Paris Through The Window
Audrey Hepburn in the movie Sabrina said: “Paris is always a good idea”. A similar idea must have come to the mind of Marc Chagall who...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 January 2018
Edward Hopper, New York Interior
Edward Hopper arrived for the first time to New York around the turn of the 20th century. He then studied with Robert Henri and embraced the Ashcan...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 January 2018
Piero della Francesca, Nativity
Among Piero della Francesca’s surviving paintings, the last one in chronological order is the Nativity in the National Gallery in London. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 December 2017
Robert Rauschenberg, Automobile Tire Print
Automobile Tire Print is one of Robert Rauschenberg’s most intriguing collaborative efforts. In 1953, the artist directed composer John Cage to...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 December 2017
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is mysterious an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 December 2017
Painting of the Week: Félix Vallotton, The Lie
Today’s painting, created by Felix Vallotton (one of my favorite artists), was painted in 1897 – but it could just as easily be a scene...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 November 2017
Time For… The Intervention of the Sabine Women
The Intervention of the Sabine Women is one of these paintings that is widely known, and considered to be a “classic” but rarely someone...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 November 2017
Learn More About Man Ray’s Cadeau
Man Ray’s Cadeau, 1921, editioned replica 1972, known also as a ‘Gift’, is one of the famous icons of the surrealist movement. It consists...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 October 2017
Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column
The Broken Column was painted shortly after Frida Kahlo had undergone another surgery on her spinal column. The operation left her bedridden and...
Zuzanna Stańska 22 October 2017
Painting Of The Week – Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci – was on everyone’s lips when it went on the market. Leonardo da Vinci (attributed), Salvator...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 October 2017
