Stendhal Syndrome – The Art Fans Sickness
Stendhal Syndrome is a mysterious thing. If you have even seen someone fainting in any great museum, or in front of any great masterpieces - it could...
Zuzanna Stańska 3 April 2017
WTF Art History
Gustav Klimt And Emilie Flöge – The Everlasting Friendship
Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge were inseparable for years. Although it was never proven that there was something romantic between the two of them...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2017
Painting Of The Week: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt painted this group portrait of seven surgeons and the physician Nicolaes Tulp in 1632 - he was only 26 years old then. Nicolaes Tulp was a...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 March 2017
10 Times When Egon Schiele Mastered Hip Hop Hand Gestures
Art is a serious thing. But sometimes some associations once they pop up in your head they just can’t disappear. I didn’t find any...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 March 2017
Maurizio Cattelan And His Obsession With Pigeons
It was at the Venice Biennale in 1997 when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan exposed 2000 stuffed pigeons installed on the top of the air conditioning...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 February 2017
Dali And Gala – The Love Story
There is a saying that behind every great man there's a great woman. Today we present one of the truest examples of that. This is the story of...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 February 2017
Oh Cupid, Mon Amour! Cupids Just Being Awesome
Who wouldn't like to come across a lovely cupid one day? Who wouldn't like to be a target of his sweet arrow? Sending you a bunch of cupids doing...
Magda Michalska 13 February 2017
Edward Hopper’s Paintings Recreated As Photographs
Richard Tuschman is a fine art photographer, whose works has appeared on a number of book covers, ad campaigns and exhibitions. In his project,...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 February 2017
The Best of Leda and the Swan Paintings
If you ever see a painting presenting a girl with a swan - it must be Leda. Leda and the Swan is a story from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus,...
Zuzanna Stańska 3 February 2017
Need A Hug? Paintings Which Embrace
Are you having a pretty bad week? Recently I have been really stressed and desperately needed a hug. If you need one too, I'm sending you some most...
Magda Michalska 2 February 2017
Are You A Conoisseur Of Male Beauty? A Nude Invasion!
As I wrote once in my post about naked bodies in Academicism, art history had for centuries glorified male beauty and had somehow neglected or...
Magda Michalska 28 January 2017
Fat Cat Art – Cat’s Guide to Classic Art
There is one fat cat in the world that makes all art in the world better. And it's not my cat unfortunately. It's Zarathustra. Have you heard of (or...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 January 2017
