Art in Exile: Refugee Artists Who Found a Welcome in Wales
On International Migrants Day, we remember the persecution of artists by oppressive and authoritarian regimes. Artists who fled the Nazi regime in...
Candy Bedworth 18 December 2022
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Travel in the Footsteps of Henri Matisse in Morocco
Until the advent of mass tourism, North Africa’s jewel, Morocco remained a relatively unknown world of sultans, spices and sparse deserts. A number...
Charlotte Stace 13 December 2022
Edvard Munch’s Life in Photos
Naturally, Edvard Munch is best known for his paintings. However, he was also one of the first of the generation of painters who dabbled in amateur...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 December 2022
Joan Miró: A Major Retrospective at BAM in Mons
In Belgium, a major retrospective of Joan Miró is being held for the first time since 1956. It runs from October 8th, 2022 to January 8th, 2023 at...
Tommy Thiange 12 December 2022
Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck: A Finnish Gem
I want to share with you my latest discovery: Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck, an unknown gem of Finnish painting. She began her work during the...
Magda Michalska 12 December 2022
Masterpiece Story: Madonna by Edvard Munch
The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch realized the colored lithograph Madonna in 1895. He is considered the precursor of Expressionism, therefore his...
Maia Heguiaphal 12 December 2022
Edvard Munch and His Portrayals of Death
“Illness, madness and death were the black angels that watched over my cradle and have since followed me through life,” Munch wrote in his notes,...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 December 2022
Viktor Zaretsky: The Oeuvre of the Ukrainian Gustav Klimt
Viktor Zaretsky is often called the Ukrainian Gustav Klimt. In fact, the influence of Klimt in the artworks of this Ukrainian artist is quite...
Nataliia Pecherska 12 December 2022
Walter Gropius’ New Illustrated Biography
In the history of 20th-century design, modernists are seen as figures of the movement rather than people who were actually living and breathing. The...
Ania Kaczynska 9 December 2022
Haddon Sundblom: The Artist Behind the Coca-Cola Santa Claus
Various illustrated depictions of the old St. Nicholas, or Bishop of Myra, have existed for centuries, bringing to life his story. Yet, in the end,...
Maria Frazzoni 6 December 2022
A Return to Just Above Midtown Gallery at MoMA
This season’s crop of museum exhibitions around New York City includes the highly-anticipated retrospective of Linda Goode Bryant’s experimental...
Jennifer S. Musawwir 5 December 2022
The Mirage of Color: Meet the Scottish Colourists
The Scottish Colourists were a group of Post-Impressionist Scottish painters active in the first half of the 20th century. Their way of painting...
Andra Patricia Ritisan 30 November 2022
