Disruptive Because Pretty: Art Guide To Aestheticism
Looking for an inspiration on how to furnish your flat, how to dress, what to read and where to go in order to make your life more aesthetic? Look no...
Magda Michalska 24 November 2018
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Caravaggio, The Musicians
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a man of many faces. One of the most important baroque painters, he used a realistic painting...
Zuzanna Stańska 18 November 2018
Paul Gauguin – Master or Monster?
When Paul Gauguin visited Tahiti in the 1890’s was he a genius in search of paradise, or a seedy sex tourist? A painter, printmaker,...
Candy Bedworth 16 November 2018
The Majestic Paintings of Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The rooms were dimly lit and majestic, and the paintings of Eugène Delacroix were larger than life. The Metropolitan Museum presented these...
Howard Schwartz 12 November 2018
A Floating World of Claude Monet
One of my greatest surprises of 2018 is Albertina’s monographic exhibition of Claude Monet. My astonishment was caused only by my bias –...
Zuzanna Stańska 9 November 2018
Crash Course in Impressionism – Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
The Courtauld Gallery will remain closed for a while, as it is being transformed. But this does not mean we cannot see the Impressionist masterpieces...
Joanna Kaszubowska 8 November 2018
Osvaldo Licini’s Rebel Angels and Sheer Folly
Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away is the name of a new retrospective in Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicated to a Modernist Italian artist...
Magda Michalska 7 November 2018
Harvest Home. Five Most Beautiful Depictions of Harvest in Art
The leaves are falling here in Wales. The last of the fruit and veg is being taken in, and the nights are getting darker. In the pagan calendar, both...
Candy Bedworth 5 November 2018
Władysław Ślewiński, Woman Combing her Hair
Władysław Ślewiński was a leading artist of the Young Poland movement and one of the first Polish artists who went to Paris. It was unusual since...
Zuzanna Stańska 4 November 2018
Ivana Kobilca: The First Lady of Slovenia
Melania Trump should not be the only Slovenian woman that the world can think of. There is also a painter, Ivana Kobilca, whose independence,...
Magda Michalska 2 November 2018
Salvador Dalí, The Hallucinogenic Toreador
When someone says Surrealism, I bet one of the first things that come to mind is the name of the artist Salvador Dalí, right? This is natural, as...
Rute Ferreira 28 October 2018
The A to Z of Ancient Greek Pottery Terms Pt 2
And so the saga continues in our adventures of learning about Ancient Greek pottery! You will probably have noticed that I chose to skip a few...
Rachel Witte 25 October 2018
