Jackson Pollock: The Face Of Abstract Expressionism
A man walks on his creation, a fragmentary and chaotic creation. But it is an elaborate, creative and almost romantic chaos. He's in love with his...
Rute Ferreira 28 January 2018
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The Real Story of the Goddess Gifs
People are going crazy over these goddess gifs – 24 ancient female statues shaking what their mothers gave them. Artist Nina Paley created the...
Alexandra Kiely 27 January 2018
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This artist is my most recent painterly discovery. I haven't heard of her before and I think it's such a shame! Her tranquil paintings in...
Magda Michalska 25 January 2018
Marion Adnams: A Teacher Who Turned a Surrealist
Would you ever suspect one of your teachers to be a painter? Marion Adnams, a modern languages teacher from Derby, England turned out to be a hidden...
Magda Michalska 22 January 2018
Fernando Botero And His Remakes Of Classic Masterpieces
I must tell you something in secret – I love Fernando Botero’s works. There is something really interesting in his paintings.
Zuzanna Stańska 15 January 2018
Marc Chagall, Paris Through The Window
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Zuzanna Stańska 14 January 2018
Everything You Should Know About Orientalism
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Magda Michalska 12 January 2018
Women’s Place Is In The Kitchen: The Story of Dutch Genre Painting
One of the unquestionable masters of Dutch genre painting was Jan Vermeer. However, today I want to present two less known painters: Peter de Hooch...
Magda Michalska 11 January 2018
The Great Stanisław Wyspiański and His Many Talents
He is considered by many of his compatriots to have been something of a Leonardo da Vinci of the 19th century. Stanisław Wyspiański and his many...
Pola Otterstein 10 January 2018
The Beautiful Portraiture of Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) is the most important American society painter that you probably have never heard of. She was a popular artist and a...
Alexandra Kiely 9 January 2018
Enlightenment and Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’
Artists of the turn of the 17th and 18th century started to secularise traditional subject matters: science and intellectual exploration began to...
Magda Michalska 8 January 2018
Edward Hopper, New York Interior
Edward Hopper arrived for the first time to New York around the turn of the 20th century. He then studied with Robert Henri and embraced the Ashcan...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 January 2018
