Art State of Mind
Virtual Art Repositories – Explore Endless Artworks from Quarantine
If you’ve in quarantine and have begun to feel the unpleasant effects...
Love Story
René Magritte: Lovers in Separation
Now, while we are all being asked to practice social distancing, you...
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Art State of Mind
Bed Stories. The Comfiest Genre Scenes in Paintings
March 13, 2020When you think about it, most of the events throughout our lives take place in bed. From birth to death, beds are imbued with the ultimate expression of life: Love. Indeed, what is more intimate than a bed?...
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Special Occasion And News
Ulay: Pioneer of Performance Art
March 12, 2020The German performance artist Ulay became known as half of the symbiotic duo Marina Abramovic – Ulay. While Abramovic became the big star, Ulay always kept experimenting and did not shy away from radical actions. Ulay was diagnosed...
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Fashion
Is Fashion a Form of Art?
March 11, 2020Fashion and art are two passionate lovers. Their beautiful affair has been commemorated many times in museums, exhibitions, and on the runways. Everyone knows about the annual Met Gala where this relationship is celebrated to its most extreme....
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Cinema
Duchamp: The Art of the Possible – Interview with Francis M. Naumann
March 10, 2020Great news for our readers and art lovers: Duchamp: The Art of the Possible, a movie directed by Matthew Taylor and produced by Michelle Taylor, is available on iTunes and Amazon on March 10th! As well as being...
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Special Occasion And News
Plague in Art: 10 Paintings You Should Know in the Times of Coronavirus
March 9, 2020As the coronavirus is spreading around the globe we want to show you how artists depicted plague in art in times when plagues were really deadly. I know it’s not comforting under current circumstances but actually, when you...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
March 8, 2020Why is art history predominantly focused on male artists? Are there not enough female artists to fill textbooks? Of course there are enough, but this sexism has a long legacy and it continues even today. March is Women’s...
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Art History 101
10 Things You Should Know About Peter Paul Rubens
March 7, 2020Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist. Considered one of the greatest exponents of the Baroque, he is best known for his mythological, allegorical and religious paintings. He was born in Siegen (Holy Roman Empire, now Germany) in...
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Bodies And Erotic Art
Be A Lady, They Said: the Poem in Paintings
March 6, 2020Possibly the most viral video of the week is the poem by Camille Rainville Be a Lady, They Said recited brilliantly by Cinthia Nixon (Sex and the City star and activist) and produced for Girls Girls Girls Magazine. I...
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Women Artists
Lady in Blue: Yelizaveta Martynova, Ill-Fated Russian Female Artist
March 6, 2020Can you name some female artists, and from Russia in particular? It’s difficult even for those who are really into art. This article tells the story of one of four women who entered the Imperial Academy of Arts...
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Art Travels
The Most Beautiful Police Station Entrance: The Giacometti Hall
March 5, 2020The first thing that might come to mind when you think about a police station is probably not the view you would get when you arrive at Urania Police Station. The entrance hall was painted by Augusto Giacometti...
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Just Weird
ALL Art In BoJack Horseman We Could Find Gathered In One Place (6th Season Update)
September 13, 2018We love it when pop culture is adopting, using and remixing art history, especially when that...
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Art History 101
10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art (NSFW)
September 21, 2017We’re here to let you in on a pretty widely known secret about art history: it...
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Ancient Greece
Six Ancient Greek Sculptures Everyone Should Know
October 25, 2016Greek art and sculpture has had a profound effect for art throughout the ages. Many of...
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Bodies And Erotic Art
All You Must Know About Japanese Erotic Art, Shunga (18+)
February 16, 2017“Ukiyo-e” pictures, pictures of the “floating world.” are famous among everyone interested in art history. Everyone knows Hokusai’s...
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Artists' Stories
4 Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness (And How It Affected Their Art)
April 4, 2018The painter Vincent Van Gogh is well-known for his artworks and for a particular aspect of...
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20th century
Frida Kahlo And The Symbolism In Her Art
August 8, 2017Frida Kahlo who lived during the first half of the 20th century changed the art history...
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Ancient Greece
Greek Mythological Creatures That Combine Female Beauty And Beastly Ugliness
December 8, 2017Gods, goddesses, demigods, horrible monsters and beasts of hybrid forms roam the world of Ancient Greek...
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Artists' Stories
The Mystery of Vincent Van Gogh’s Death
March 30, 2017Vincent van Gogh’s death occurred in the early morning of 29 July 1890, in his room...
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20th century
Pablo Picasso And His Women
November 28, 2017Pablo Picasso perhaps the most influential and recognizable painter of the 20th century, is well known...
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21st century
The Story Of Damien Hirst’s Famous Shark
September 4, 2017This shark is considered the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and has become...
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