Life And The Human Condition Through The Eyes Of Oswaldo Guayasamín
Early Life and Works Oswaldo Guayasamín was born into a humble family in Quito, Ecuador on July 6, 1919, as the oldest of 10 siblings. His father...
Kacper Grass 9 May 2018
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The Story Of Collingwood Mural of Keith Haring
In 1984 American artist Keith Haring visited Australia and created a mural in Collingwood, Melbourne. This is the story of the mural, at what was...
Zuzanna Stańska 8 May 2018
Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and the Art of Chance
The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities and informing our behaviour; the...
Jon Kelly 4 May 2018
The Ups and Downs of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena, Colombia
The weather was hot, about 90 degrees. The sun was wet and blinding. Men on the street were selling water for a dollar a bottle. Other men were...
Howard Schwartz 30 April 2018
Leonora Carrington And Her Surrealist Life In Her Own Words
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) is considered one of the greatest and most neglected British Surrealists. Her life story is a fascinating one: she...
Magda Michalska 28 April 2018
When Mental Breakdown Makes You An Artist: Niki De Saint Phalle
Many artists are known to struggle with depression or mental disorders (sometimes I feel that truly happy people won't ever make great art...).
Magda Michalska 25 April 2018
The Spirit of Ecstasy – A Story of Goddesses and Secret Affairs
The story of the Spirit of Ecstasy is one to be pulled from the gossip columns of London high society. It involves rich and aristocratic benefactors,...
Candy Bedworth 21 April 2018
Make Me Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
When I decided to write about Dora Kallmus, more known by her pseudonym Madame d'Ora, I found out that the Leopold Museum in Vienna is going to open...
Magda Michalska 9 April 2018
Almada Negreiros: The Man Who Loved All the Arts
Have you heard about the writer Almada Negreiros? He is the author of beautiful verses, like the Canção da Saudade, in which he says "if I were...
Rute Ferreira 8 April 2018
Why is Klimt Famous?
Gustav Klimt, born in Austria in 1862, is celebrated as one of the most valued artists in the history of art. But, why is Klimt famous? Why exactly...
Bolor Jargalsaikhan 28 March 2018
The Wounded Angel By Hugo Simberg
Two boys carry a stretcher, bearing an angel dressed in white. The angel is clearly ill - her eyes are bandaged, the wing is bloodied and she can...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2018
George Tooker: A Purveyor of Modern Alienation and Despair
When the American figurative painter, George Tooker died in 2011, The New York Times said of his 1956 painting, Government Bureau, “was inspired by...
Wendy Gray 15 March 2018
