Surprising Art History

Art State of Mind

6 Rooms from Famous Paintings Brought to Real Life

Paintings of historical interiors are fascinating hybrid images – midway between the work of a great artist’s imagination and a document of...

Kate Wojtczak 29 April 2019

Surprising Art History

Art of the Brick – Nathan Sawaya’s Lego Works

Lego springs to mind as one of the key toys of many people’s childhoods. Whether building houses, spacecrafts or just stepping on that elusive...

Nadine Waldmann 27 March 2019

Surprising Art History

Fernando Botero And His Remakes Of Classic Masterpieces

I must tell you something in secret – I love Fernando Botero’s works. There is something really interesting in his paintings. This Colombian...

Zuzanna Stańska 15 January 2018

Baroque

Women’s Place Is In The Kitchen: The Story of Dutch Genre Painting

One of the unquestionable masters of Dutch genre painting was Jan Vermeer. However, today I want to present two less known painters: Peter de Hooch...

Magda Michalska 11 January 2018

Dine & Wine

A Paradise for All Hipsters – Gluten Free Art Museum

Internet is full of wonders. A French graphic artist, Arthur Coulet, has created a Tumblr called the Gluten-Free Museum that removes everything...

Zuzanna Stańska 15 August 2017

Surprising Art History

See Legs of People from Famous Paintings Imagined

Have you ever been curious how the legs of people from famous portraits might have look like? Well, I never was, but the idea is quite interesting.

Zuzanna Stańska 12 August 2017

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau Explained in GIFs

The Art Nouveau Season on Europeana explores the depth and diversity of the influential art movement and features beautiful Art Nouveau jewellery,...

Europeana 7 June 2017

Fashion

Jeff Koons And Louis Vuitton Bags – A Perfect Match?

Jeff Koons was always an enfant terrible of contemporary art. This time, by working on the new collection “Masters” with Louis Vuitton he...

Zuzanna Stańska 21 April 2017

Dine & Wine

What An Egg! Easter Egg Art Edition

Egg – the symbol of life, the victory over death, new beginnings and recoveries. And one of those gracious subjects in art which seems to be...

Magda Michalska 16 April 2017

Bizarre

Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures

Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina,...

Piotr Policht 13 January 2017

Surprising Art History

Hoovers Can Be Art – A Post For Perfect Housewives

Do you like cleaning? I do, though I’m still far from being a Perfect Housewife. But I really like hoovering (especially with Henry). And the...

Magda Michalska 3 October 2016

Theater & Cinema

Excited About 2nd Season Of Narcos? See What Fernando Botero Had To Do With Pablo Escobar (Spoiler Alert)

Everyone’s excited about the second series of Netflix’s tv series Narcos  – and I am too! The series, set and filmed in Colombia,...

Zuzanna Stańska 6 September 2016