When Mental Breakdown Makes You An Artist: Niki De Saint Phalle
Many artists are known to struggle with depression or mental disorders (sometimes I feel that truly happy people won't ever make great art...).
Magda Michalska 25 April 2018
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The Mystery Of Mantegna Tarocchi
The Mantegna Tarocchi, also known as the Tarocchi Cards, Tarocchi in the style of Mantegna, is a double series of 50 instructional engravings each.
Zuzanna Stańska 23 April 2018
The Spirit of Ecstasy – A Story of Goddesses and Secret Affairs
The story of the Spirit of Ecstasy is one to be pulled from the gossip columns of London high society. It involves rich and aristocratic benefactors,...
Candy Bedworth 21 April 2018
Let’s Sing Praises to Song Dynasty Genius Artist Ma Yuan
There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye. Ma Yuan, (1160-1225) was a Southern Song Dynasty, Chinese painter from an illustrious...
Barry Russell 18 April 2018
Faceless Women and Fungi – The Art of Ewa Juszkiewicz
How many portraits of faceless women, with fungi in place of their heads have you ever seen? None? Well, until now, that is. [caption...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 17 April 2018
What Art Has To Do With Politics: Gustave Courbet And The Paris Commune
The painter Gustave Courbet who was the central figure of Realism, is known for his paintings in which he reveals the true lives of peasants and...
Rute Ferreira 16 April 2018
Painting of the Week: Portrait of A Man in Red Chalk (aka Leonardo da Vinci)
Hello, it's me, I was wondering if after all these years (exactly 566 today) you'd like to meet... [caption id="attachment_11420"...
Magda Michalska 15 April 2018
Get To Know The Cultural Legacy of Albert, Prince Consort
The Royal Collection is one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to...
Wendy Gray 12 April 2018
Selfie-feminism, the Sad Girl Theory and the Sad Girls of Instagram
A new wave of female artists started to appear on Instagram. They come from various backgrounds, were born in different decades, their styles are...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 11 April 2018
Two Worlds Collide: Pop Art and the Cuban Revolution
Pop Art Comes to Cuba Raúl Martínez was born in the central Cuban city of Ciego de Ávila in 1927. Before the Revolution, he had the opportunity...
Kacper Grass 10 April 2018
Make Me Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
When I decided to write about Dora Kallmus, more known by her pseudonym Madame d'Ora, I found out that the Leopold Museum in Vienna is going to open...
Magda Michalska 9 April 2018
Almada Negreiros: The Man Who Loved All the Arts
Have you heard about the writer Almada Negreiros? He is the author of beautiful verses, like the Canção da Saudade, in which he says "if I were...
Rute Ferreira 8 April 2018
