Meet Veronica Ryan, The 2022 Turner Prize Winner
A great example of resilience and coherence, Veronica Ryan is the latest winner of the Turner Prize, an annual prize awarded to British contemporary...
Carlotta Mazzoli 2 February 2024
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Philip Guston Retrospective at Tate Modern
The current Philip Guston retrospective at the Tate Modern presents a vast selection of the artist’s life works spanning over 50 years, from the...
Isabella Wilkinson 1 February 2024
Hilma af Klint: Pioneer of Abstract Art
Who invented abstract art? The advent of abstraction has historically been attributed to male artists. However, Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter and...
Emily Snow 1 February 2024
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Piet Mondrian, one of the founders of the Dutch modern movement De Stijl, is mostly known for his pure abstractions from the 1920s, reduced to lines,...
Zuzanna Stańska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 1 February 2024
Ice Skaters in Painting
Some time ago I went to the ice rink and I realized again how fun it is to glide and feel light (or very heavy when you fall). So I thought it would...
Magda Michalska 31 January 2024
Most Important Works of Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys was one of those mysterious artists whose biography can be considered a separate work of art. He’s rightly regarded as one of the...
Magda Michalska 29 January 2024
Watch the Hedgehogs from Medieval Bestiaries Come to Life!
I love animals from Medieval bestiaries. They are truly beautiful. So when I came across this video animating the hedgehog described in Latin...
Zuzanna Stańska, Nicole Ganbold 29 January 2024
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Have you ever imagined a world dominated by animals? Have you read Orwell’s Animal Farm and wondered what it would be like to live in such a...
Magda Michalska 29 January 2024
Hieronymus Bosch’s Creepy Owls
Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter. He must have lived in two worlds simultaneously – the real one and a world of his...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 January 2024
Charlotte Salomon: Theater of Life and Death
This is not a story with a happy ending. Or a happy beginning for that matter. It’s a story of suicides, sexual abuse, a mystery to solve and art...
Magda Michalska 27 January 2024
Making Meaning: Charlotte Salomon Painting Her Childhood
The artist Charlotte Salomon was tragically murdered in the gas chamber in Auschwitz at the age of 26, while 5 months pregnant. She left behind two...
Candy Bedworth 27 January 2024
Malva Schalek: Art in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Malva Schalek, also known as Malvína Schalková, was a Czech-Jewish artist who endured the turbulent landscape of the early 20th century and was...
Andreea Iancu 27 January 2024
