Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and the Art of Chance
The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities and informing our behaviour; the...
Jon Kelly 4 May 2018
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Educating Through Art: What We Can Learn From Frederick Schiller’s Writings
Why Art? Any form of Art is devoted to (providing) joy, and there is not any higher and not any more serious duty than to make the human beings...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 3 May 2018
The Ups and Downs of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena, Colombia
The weather was hot, about 90 degrees. The sun was wet and blinding. Men on the street were selling water for a dollar a bottle. Other men were...
Howard Schwartz 30 April 2018
Painting Of The Week: Werner Holmberg’s Road in Häme
The Finnish National Gallery recently applied an open licence (CC0) to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading...
Europeana 29 April 2018
In Life, In Art, Till Death Do Us Part: The Romance Of Georgina And Lucílio de Albuquerque
Do you like art history and love stories? You’ve come to the right place because here we have both! Today we present the story of love and art...
Rute Ferreira 27 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. Ewa Juszkiewicz,...
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… Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of a...
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
