All Saints Day In Famous Paintings
All Saints Day, celebrated yesterday is also known as Hallowmas or Feast of All Saints. Occurring on November 1st of each year, it is a significant...
Pola Otterstein 2 November 2017
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Learn More About Man Ray’s Cadeau
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Zuzanna Stańska 29 October 2017
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Zuzanna Stańska 28 October 2017
Tove Jansson And Her Moomin World
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Zuzanna Stańska 23 October 2017
Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column
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Zuzanna Stańska 22 October 2017
Watch Basquiat Painting Live Downtown in 1981
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Zuzanna Stańska 21 October 2017
El Greco: the Grandfather of Expressionism
The Guide to the Prado describes El Greco as a “philosopher, as an intellectual and as a sensitive and idiosyncratic artist.” It is these...
Wendy Gray 19 October 2017
If You’re Searching For A Path…
I have recently come across a tiny little poem by a Bulgarian poet, Blaga Dimitrova: Grass "I'm not afraid They'll stamp me flat Grass stamped...
Magda Michalska 18 October 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
Join Salvador Dali in Alice’s Wonderland
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Zuzanna Stańska 16 October 2017
