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...
-
Art Travels
Art Travels: Ta Prohm Temple
March 4, 2020The Ta Prohm temple along with the Bayon and the Angkor Wat are among the most visited sites in northern Cambodia. The most enchanting feature of Ta Prohm is that it looks like the sandstone structures are being...
-
Museums And Exhibitions
Around the World with the National Portrait Gallery – P.6 APAC
March 3, 2020The National Portrait Gallery in London is due to close its doors from 29 June 2020. The Inspiring People gallery redevelopment works will take three years. The gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world....
-
Special Occasion And News
Five Great Female Art Patrons in History
March 1, 2020Women’s History Month begins today. So it’s time to celebrate the many women who have made their mark on art history. Here, we’ll meet five female art patrons with impeccable taste and amazing collections. Female art patrons don’t...
-
Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
March 1, 2020A ploughman is plowing the lands, a shepherd is watching over his sheep, an angler is fishing. The ships are sailing to unknown lands, a partridge is sitting on the branch of a tree, the sun is going...
-
Artist
African American Visual Artists in North Carolina
February 29, 2020Today American Black History Month comes to an end. Are you curious about African American artists from, or working in the state of North Carolina? Well, look no further. Here is a (short) list to get you started...
-
Bodies And Erotic Art
Art on the Verge of Eroticism and Pathology by Egon Schiele
February 28, 2020The provocative artworks of the Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele are not just about exploring the sexuality of women’s and men’s bodies. The artist also expresses inner experiences through the pathological body. These two aspects of the artist’s oeuvre...
-
WTFArtHistory
Pharmacy Museums: Houses of Oddities
February 27, 2020A pharmacy is a very weird kind of shop. It has your favorite skin creams and food supplements. They also carry medicines for the flu, blood pressure, and other illnesses. Pharmacies have been around for a long time....
-
Architecture
These Gifs Bring Eight Buildings from Paintings Into the Real World
February 26, 2020If you’ve ever tried to imagine what it would be like to visit buildings from paintings you know and love, these fun gifs can help you out! Last year, we featured some cool gifs showing real-world versions of...
-
Artists' Stories
Vasily Vereshchagin – Journey through India
February 25, 2020Vasily Vereshchagin was a notable Russian solider, artist and writer in the 19th century. He was an outspoken critic of war who reformed the genre of war paintings by dispensing with traditional conventions that glorified war. As a...
-
Museums And Exhibitions
Around the world with the National Portrait Gallery – P.5 Europe
February 24, 2020The National Portrait Gallery in London is due to close its doors from 29 June 2020. The Inspiring People gallery redevelopment works will take three years. The gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world....
More Posts
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
Trending
Women Artists
