Aubette: Neoplasticist Gesamtkunstwerk in Strasbourg
Have you ever visited Strasbourg in Alsace, France? It’s a charming city full of picturesque narrow and tiny houses scattered along the canals.
Magda Michalska 2 August 2022
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Modern Living – Sonneveld House in Rotterdam
Visit the Sonneveld House Museum with us! It is one of the best-preserved examples of the Nieuwe Bouwen style, the Dutch branch of the International...
Joanna Kaszubowska 2 August 2022
Masterpiece Story: Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright
There are many iconic buildings, and it feels like more and more are being called that by the hour. But the list is a lot shorter if we only consider...
Joanna Kaszubowska 2 August 2022
Masterpiece Story: Chambri People’s Ancestor Mask
Ancestor Mask is a masterpiece of Papua New Guinean art. It symbolizes a vanishing tribal lifestyle rarely seen outside of...
James W Singer 1 August 2022
Alice Neel: The Story of Defying Convention
Today, Alice Neel is considered one of the greatest portrait painters of the 20th century. As she usually painted her friends, family, neighbors, and...
Gokce Dyson 1 August 2022
The Art Waves of Cornwall: St Ives School
Just before the outbreak of World War II, a small town in Cornwall, UK, became a haven for British artists. Built of granite and surrounded on three...
Magda Michalska 30 July 2022
How Cubism Changed During the 20th Century
Art changed a lot during the start of the 20th century. World War I affected this transition and changed the process as many artists tried to express...
Emre Kagitci 30 July 2022
War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing! Protest Art Story (+18)
Protest art, especially around war, has a rich global history, in visual art, installation art, in music and in literature. German philosopher Adorno...
Candy Bedworth 28 July 2022
Lee Krasner and the Art of Starting Over
Lee Krasner’s name has become much more widely known in recent years, but unfortunately, she is often referred to as the wife of Jackson Pollock.
Candy Bedworth 27 July 2022
Mark Rothko’s Recipe for a Work of Art
Mark Rothko, one of the most famous postwar American artists is now generally identified as an Abstract Expressionist and his art is exquisite. Who...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 July 2022
Keeping up with the Boys: Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler
It’s often the men of Abstract Expressionism who are best known: Jackson Pollock and his famous “drip” technique; Willem de Kooning’s...
Kelly Hill 27 July 2022
Masterpiece Story: Molecule Man by Jonathan Borofsky
Jonathan Borofsky’s monumental aluminum sculpture, Molecule Man, towers over the Berlin skyline at 30 meters (100 feet). Standing in a region...
Nadine Waldmann 26 July 2022
