Wonderful Paintings Inspired by Famous Literary Couples
Art and literature have been a thing for centuries and they’re still at it. We have plucked a few worthy fruits of their union to show you how...
Giordana Goretti 2 October 2023
Love Story
Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst – A Surreal Love Story
They fell in love while playing chess and stayed together for the rest of their lives. Read about the relationship between the famous German...
Magda Michalska 28 September 2023
Lovebirds and Life Partners – Famous Artist Couples
Al Green famously sang “Let’s Stay Together” but artists are notorious for tempestuous relationships that often end badly. But hey, let’s...
Candy Bedworth 18 September 2023
Too Much Love Will Kill You – The Death of Raphael
Raphael Santi, one of the greatest Renaissance painters died on Good Friday in 1520. He was only 37 years old and at the peak of his artistic powers.
Zuzanna Stańska 31 August 2023
Jane Morris: A Pre-Raphaelite Artist and Muse
Jane Morris (1839-1914) was an English embroiderer and artists’ model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to...
Marija Canjuga 28 August 2023
You’ve Got Mail! Read the Personal Letters of Great Artists
Do you ever look at a work of art and wonder, how did the person behind it think? We always want to feel closer to the artists we admire. That is why...
Elizaveta Ermakova 28 August 2023
The Original Guerilla Girls: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Book Review
If I asked for your top 10 political artists, does Claude Cahun spring to mind? Marcel Moore? No, I guessed as much. But these two art activists had...
Candy Bedworth 18 August 2023
The Love of Ida Rubinstein and Romaine Brooks
Being a bisexual woman at the beginning of the 20th century was difficult. They were looked down on, they were scorned and discussed behind their...
Magda Michalska 18 August 2023
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: With Love Through Art
If two people are born on precisely the same day, they must be destined to meet. He was Bulgarian, she was French. They met when he was called in to...
Magda Michalska 18 August 2023
Gilbert & George – Art and Love at First Sight
In 1967, two young students, Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore, met at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London. It was love at first sight...
Magda Michalska 18 August 2023
The Artists Are Present – Marina and Ulay
Balkan performing artist Marina Abramovic was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Serbia. Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen) was born on the same day as she, a few...
Caroline Galambosova 18 August 2023
