Edgar Degas And The Paris Milliners
When we think of Edgar Degas, we see his depictions of ballet dancers, nude bathers and racetracks. But Degas had another favorite subject - the...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 March 2017
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Paul Cezanne And Card Players
The Card Players subject were painted by Paul Cezanne five times. Why it's so important? The series is considered by critics to be a cornerstone of...
Zuzanna Stańska 17 March 2017
Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau master
Alphonse Mucha is perhaps the artist most publicly associated with Art Nouveau. Today we explore the life and work of the Czech master. Girl with...
Europeana 16 March 2017
How Artists Portray Tragedy: Guernica
…a Government official, tears streaming down his face, burst into the dismal dining-room crying: ‘Guernica is destroyed. The Germans...
Wendy Gray 15 March 2017
Decadent Masterpieces Reconstructed In Photographs
Two artists – Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto began their artistic collaboration in 2009 with the project “The Essence of...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 March 2017
Jackie Kennedy- Andy Warhol’s Modern Madonna
The Oscars inspired me to watch the latest film about Jackie Kennedy directed by Pablo Larrain and starring Natalie Portman: [caption...
Magda Michalska 13 March 2017
Painting Of The Week: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt painted this group portrait of seven surgeons and the physician Nicolaes Tulp in 1632 - he was only 26 years old then. Nicolaes Tulp was a...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 March 2017
Dorothea Tanning- A Woman For Whom Max Ernst Left His Wife
They fell in love while playing chess. After they had met at a party, Max Ernst passed by her studio to consider her works for his wife's newly...
Magda Michalska 10 March 2017
Women’s Day Message To All Women!
Happy International Women's Day! I hope you are celebrating today with all women present in your lives: girlfriends, mothers, sisters, aunties,...
Magda Michalska 8 March 2017
Absinthe and Art Nouveau
This month we’re partnering with Europeana again to celebrate their fantastic new Art Nouveau season (21 February - 29 May). The season explores...
Europeana 7 March 2017
Masterpiece Story: Charles Demuth and the Figure 5
This one-sentence poem, by the American poet William Carlos Williams, was the inspiration for an incredible abstract work by American artist, Charles...
Wendy Gray 5 March 2017
10 Masterpieces That Paved The Way To Modernism From ‘Degas to Picasso’ in the Ashmolean Museum
From February 10th to 7th May Oxford is a place to be for all art lovers. In Ashmolean Museum, which is the oldest university museum in the world...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 March 2017
