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 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 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
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
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...
Magda Michalska 9 April 2018
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...
Rute Ferreira 8 April 2018
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
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...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2018
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
Charles Santore is an American illustrator of magazines, advertisements, and books. He’s had a successful career working on magazine covers like TV...
Alexandra Kiely 12 March 2018
Portinari was the painter of Brazil. This statement refers not only to his nationality, but also to his work. During his life, the painter portrayed...
Rute Ferreira 3 March 2018
Being an English teacher, so much of what I look at is linked to the literary world. With the previous examination specification, we used to be...
Wendy Gray 27 February 2018
A recent documentary that was filmed with the help and support of Stanley Spencer’s two daughters, revealed the personal anguishes the family...
Wendy Gray 22 February 2018