Louisine Havemeyer and Her Modern Art Collection
A great, pioneering art collector, Louisine Havemeyer (1855-1929), was the first American to patronize the French Impressionists. Together with her...
Alexandra Kiely 28 July 2020
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Artists and Paintings. Everything You Need to Know About Impressionism
Impressionism has become one of the most significant movements of modern art. The names of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, or Edgar Degas are...
Nataliia Pecherska 27 July 2020
10 Most Beautiful Russian Art Nouveau Buildings
“Beauty is our religion” said Mikhail Vrubel, one of Russia's most famous Art Nouveau artists. The style of the fin de siècle acts as beauty's...
Elizaveta Ermakova 19 July 2020
Art Nouveau’s Unsung Female Artists
Art Nouveau, the movement that flourished between 1890 and 1910, developed at the apex of Belle Époque, the period which encouraged modernity and...
Anastasia Tsaleza 18 July 2020
Klimt’s Unknown Portraits You Would Never Guess Were His
Some of Klimt's portraits have already gained the status of 'iconic', for example his portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer soaked in gold. Yet, before Klimt...
Magda Michalska 15 July 2020
Art Nouveau Explained
Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite. It spread...
Errika Gerakiti 14 July 2020
DailyArt Magazine Staff’s Impressions of the Impressionists
For a few years DailyArt Magazine has brought you articles on hundreds of topics relating to art history. Today you have a rare chance to meet some...
Rachel Witte 13 July 2020
Edgar Degas and His Most Beautiful Ballerinas
Edgar Degas was one of the founders of Impressionism, however, he didn't like the term and preferred to call it "Realist” or...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 July 2020
Harriet Powers: A Black Female Folk Artist Who Regained Her Glory
For much of the 20th century, the work of Harriet Powers, an enslaved and later emancipated Black folk artist, remained forgotten. It is especially...
Kristin Urban 10 July 2020
Painting of the Week: Thomas Lawrence, Julia, Lady Peel
When I saw the portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Frick Collection, I was intrigued by the artwork. There is a...
Marina Kochetkova 5 July 2020
Around the World With a Painter: Frederic Edwin Church’s Travels
Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was a true world traveler. In his lifetime, Church visited the Arctic, Mexico, South...
Alexandra Kiely 25 June 2020
A Queer World in Konstantin Somov’s Artworks
Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) was a Russian painter, co-founder of the artistic movement Mir Iskusstva and well known for his watercolors...
Kateryna Martynova 22 June 2020
