Yoko Ono—A Multifaceted Artist of Peace
Visual artist, singer-songwriter, writer, and filmmaker, Yoko Ono cannot be reduced to the role of the wife of the English musician John Lennon...
Montaine Dumont 29 May 2025
Women Artists
Louise Bourgeois in 5 Artworks: Creepy, Crawly, and Brilliant
Louise Bourgeois was the artist behind the world-famous spider sculpture—Maman. Her career spanned decades, and her oeuvre often focused on complex...
Joanna Kaszubowska 29 May 2025
The Surrealistic World of Dora Maar
The name Dora Maar reminds most people of Pablo Picasso. But apart from being his muse and lover, she was first and foremost an ambitious and...
Michel Rutten 26 May 2025
Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic: Pushing the Limits of Surrealism
Nives Kavuric-Kurtovic was the first female Croatian Surrealist painter and one of the greatest artists of Croatian contemporary art. As a painter,...
Guest Author 26 May 2025
Marion Adnams: A Teacher Who Turned Into a Surrealist
Would you ever suspect one of your teachers to be a painter? Marion Adnams, a modern languages teacher from Derby, England, turned out to be a hidden...
Magda Michalska 26 May 2025
Immerse Yourself in the Magical World of Maria Anto
Maria Anto (Maria Czarnecka) was a late 20th-century Polish painter. She created a series of paintings in the magical realism genre, depicting...
Pola Otterstein 26 May 2025
Violet Oakley: The First American Woman with a Public Mural Commission
1906, Philadelphia, USA: a historic moment in art was unfolding in the Pennsylvania Capitol Building. A series of murals depicting The Founding of...
Wendy Gray 26 May 2025
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Five Female Painters to Know
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an all-male artistic fraction active during the second half of the 19th century, has become synonymous today with...
Anastasia Tsaleza 23 May 2025
Tarsila do Amaral: Joy is the Decisive Test
Tarsila do Amaral left behind 230 paintings, five sculptures, and hundreds of drawings, prints, and murals. She led Brazilian art into modernism. In...
Alicja Gluszek 23 May 2025
Maria Pinińska-Bereś—The Artist Who Made Pink Feminist
When I think of Maria Pinińska-Bereś her name appears in my head in light-pink hand-written letters embroidered on a white duvet. It is of course...
Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 22 May 2025
Anita Malfatti: The First Modernist of Brazil
Portraits of women made by other women are always worthy of attention. The representation of a woman by another is often less idealized or...
Rute Ferreira 22 May 2025
Kyra Nijinsky: Portrait of a Dancer
Kyra Nijinsky was a ballet dancer born in Vienna to a family of Polish and Hungarian origin with a Russian dance and cultural heritage. Being a...
Klaudia Zelazowska 21 May 2025
