The Real Story of the Goddess Gifs
People are going crazy over these goddess gifs – 24 ancient female statues shaking what their mothers gave them. Artist Nina Paley created the...
Alexandra Kiely 27 January 2018
WTF 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.
Zuzanna Stańska 15 January 2018
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
Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
The reason is: at the time, philosophers thought that Christ was born like a “perfectly formed and unchanged” man, aka he came out...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 December 2017
The True Story of American Gothic According to SNL
If you ever wondered how famous paintings were created, how exactly looked the process of creation, setting up the sitters, choosing their...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 December 2017
A Painterly Look Into Sculptors’ Studios
Painting and sculpture have always had a rather complicated relationship, with artists arguing for the superiority of one or the other. Yet, in the...
Magda Michalska 29 November 2017
Running In Museums? Run with Martin Creed
Have you ever entered a museum five minutes before closing and thus had to run to see as much as possible? Such a thing happened to Martin Creed, a...
Magda Michalska 27 November 2017
Get Yourself Ready, Met Gala 2018 Theme Is Revealed: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
This is going to be MADNESS. Every year Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts the famous Met Gala. Formally called the Costume Institute Gala and also...
Zuzanna Stańska 15 November 2017
Grow Your Artsy Mustache For Movember!
Movember November is a month of raising awareness about men’s health, in particular about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men’s...
Magda Michalska 6 November 2017
Do You Know Your Saints? A Quiz With Saintly Attributes
How well do you know your Christian iconography? All Saints is over but it’s never too late for a little quiz! Are you able to recognize saints...
Magda Michalska 3 November 2017
William Hogarth – Marriage à-la-mode
The 18th century British painter William Hogarth created an insightful series of paintings about the arranged marriages of his times, entitled...
Pola Otterstein 17 October 2017
Annibale Carracci: The Inventor of Baroque Painting?
When did Mannierism give way to a new style? Was it with Caravaggio‘s dramatic lighting, or Rubens‘s opulence? Can we distinguish a...
Magda Michalska 27 September 2017
