Josef Šíma: from Czech Republic to Paris
Josef Šíma was born in Jaromer, in today’s Czech Republic in 1891, but he became a naturalized French citizen (he took the citizenship...
Magda Michalska 9 May 2019
#19th Century
6 Rooms from Famous Paintings Brought to Real Life
Paintings of historical interiors are fascinating hybrid images – midway between the work of a great artist’s imagination and a document of...
Kate Wojtczak 29 April 2019
Painting Norway – Harald Sohlberg at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Meet Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935), the creator of the “National Painting of Norway”. He may not be as well-known outside of Norway as...
Joanna Kaszubowska 22 March 2019
Gustave Moreau Museum
We all know that feeling of travelling back in time when we encounter a trace of our past, whether by finding an object from our childhood, a book...
Christopher Michaut 18 March 2019
Painting of the Week: Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot
Gustav Courbet, the enfant terrible of French 19th-century art, did everything he could to save himself in the memory of the contemporary art...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 February 2019
Intersection of Coffee and Creating: Coffee Shops and Their Purpose
The actual art of coffee making has steadily been growing for years. We have surpassed and moved past instant coffee, onto specialty coffee shops and...
Rachel Witte 5 February 2019
Into the Abyss: The Forgotten Pietro Canonica
A prominent, famous and revered artist in his lifetime, Pietro Canonica has been relegated to the sidelines of Italian art history. Skilled and...
Nadine Waldmann 1 February 2019
Masterpiece Story: The Bathers by Paul Cézanne
When little Paul was born on 19th January 1839 nobody could expect that he will revolutionize painting with developing a unique style and influence a...
Kate Wojtczak 20 January 2019
Wilhelm Hansen’s Impressionist Collection that Denmark Refused to Buy
On the 14th September 1918, Wilhelm Hansen founded one of the finest collections of Impressionist painting in Europe in his summer house not far from...
Magda Michalska 8 December 2018
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
Masterpiece Story: Autumn Effects at Argenteuil by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted Autumn Effects at Argenteuil in late 1873, which was the moment when the Impressionist movement started to roar on the Paris art...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 October 2018
Everything You Must Know About Pont-Aven School
The year 1886 was a turning point for Paul Gauguin’s career as a painter. That was the year when the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France,...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 September 2018
