Anna Atkins: Photography and the Botanist
Anna Atkins turned to photography not because she loved this medium – but because it was useful to her. Atkins was a botanist, who developed an...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 April 2017
Women Artists
Women’s Day Message To All Women!
Happy International Women’s Day! I hope you are celebrating today with all women present in your lives: girlfriends, mothers, sisters, aunties,...
Magda Michalska 8 March 2017
Elsie Driggs And Her Battle For Large Forms
It’s hard to imagine that a female artist could be advised to leave her work unsigned to avoid prejudicing the gallery owner, but for women artists...
Wendy Gray 31 January 2017
Pegeen Vail Guggenheim: A Never Understood Daughter
You must have heard of the family Guggenheim, wealthy merchants who with time became the prominent art collectors and patrons of modern art. You...
Magda Michalska 18 January 2017
Beyond Flowers and Deserts: Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York
She is definitely best known for her subtle, sometimes almost abstract depictions of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. But there’s also...
Piotr Policht 6 January 2017
Mysterious Wise Woman in Paulina Ołowska’s Paintings
Paulina Ołowska is a Polish artist, primarily a painter, but also working with mediums such as theater. She has a bee in her bonnet about...
Piotr Policht 7 December 2016
The Romantic World Of M(a)cdonald’s Art (No Burgers Included)
(Sorry for this inappropriate pun in the title, I simply couldn’t stop myself.) I’m not going to serve you any reheated burgers, on the...
Magda Michalska 28 November 2016
Pauline Boty- The Mother Of Pop Art (And She’s Not American)
Surprise, surprise, Pop Art did not begin in the States in the sixties but in the United Kingdom, and already in 1952. Everything started with...
Magda Michalska 29 September 2016
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress Of Montmartre
She started as a model because she didn’t have money for professional painting classes. She would watch the artists for whom she worked, such...
Magda Michalska 23 September 2016
Yoko Ono’s Performance You Can Recreate At Home
Yoko Ono is not only the wife of late John Lennon. Primarily she is an artist and performer. One of her most famous performances was Cut...
Magda Michalska 19 September 2016
My name is Sofonisba And I’m Michelangelo’s Gal
And I don’t mean it as a mistress, no, no, I’m a respectable girl who comes from a little poor but still a noble family of Cremona. When...
Magda Michalska 7 September 2016
Meet Georgia O’Keeffe In Person
Have you heard of Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1? No? Well, it’s the most expensive painting by a female painter ever sold at auction...
Magda Michalska 13 August 2016
