Mantegna and Bellini – Brothers in Art?
With this exhibition, the National Gallery in London aims to explore the artistic relationship between Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini. The...
Joanna Kaszubowska 10 December 2018
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Wilhelm Hansen’s Impressionist Collection that Denmark Refused to Buy
On the 14th September 1918, Wilhelm Hansen founded one of the finest collections of Impressionist painting in Europe in his summer house not far from...
Magda Michalska 8 December 2018
Blues of Bablyon: The Ishtar Gate
Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian city (modern day Iraq) existed from 18th century to 6th century BCE. Since that time its legend has generated many...
Nadine Waldmann 7 December 2018
The Dreaming Youths: A Children’s Book That Parents Would Hide From Their Kids
As many other Oskar Kokoschka's works, also this one met with mixed feelings from the public. In the end, it was meant to be a children's...
Magda Michalska 5 December 2018
5 Masterpieces with Multiple Versions
Authenticity and originality are invaluable aspects of any work of art. But across pages of art history, we can find artworks and masterpieces with...
Maria Frazzoni 4 December 2018
Singapore’s First Minimalism Retrospective
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. is a new exhibition which showcases Minimalist art from its beginnings in the 1950s up to the 21st century. For the...
Noa Weisberg 3 December 2018
Georges Seurat, The Lighthouse at Honfleur
Our Painting of the Week is The Lighthouse at Honfleur by Georges Seurat. Since December 2 is Seurat's birthday, let's learn a little more about what...
Alexandra Kiely 2 December 2018
Intimacy with Egon Schiele at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Have you ever been under the impression that a piece of art you're looking at is so powerful that it can subvert the roles of a viewer and a subject?...
Christopher Michaut 29 November 2018
Birthday Edition of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
William Blake was undoubtedly a genius. And as it usually happens with geniuses and people who are ahead of their times, he was scorned and...
Magda Michalska 28 November 2018
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day
Paris Street; Rainy Day is probably the best known work of French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). We see here a number of individuals...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 November 2018
Disruptive Because Pretty: Art Guide To Aestheticism
Looking for an inspiration on how to furnish your flat, how to dress, what to read and where to go in order to make your life more aesthetic? Look no...
Magda Michalska 24 November 2018
David Hockney and The Camera: A Composite Polaroid Reality
Sometime before 1982, Hockney commented that Photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed...
Magda Michalska 21 November 2018
