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
#20th century
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
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
Exploring the History of Mexico in the Murals of The Big Three
Although most commonly associated with the works of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican muralism has actually...
Kacper Grass 23 November 2022
El Greco: The Grandfather of Expressionism
The guide to the Prado Museum describes El Greco as a “philosopher, as an intellectual and as a sensitive and idiosyncratic artist.” It is these...
Wendy Gray 7 November 2022
Find Paradise with Niki de Saint Phalle: Paradis Retrouvé in Opera Gallery
This week marks the birthday of Niki de Saint Phalle, the Franco-American artist who died in 2002. To celebrate the occasion, I visited a new...
Louisa Mahoney 29 October 2022
Federico Fellini: The Great Italian Caricaturist
Federico Fellini is one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. He created a unique style based on fantasy, dreams,...
Marija Canjuga 26 October 2022
Famous Autumn Paintings Created by Famous Artists
Autumn in is the full swing. Where I am now, is pretty gloomy and grey, I really need to look at beautiful and colorful autumn paintings created by...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 October 2022
Autumn Atmosphere in Paul Klee’s Paintings
I really like the season of autumn, especially because of its color palette: reddish and yellowish leaves, beige coats, green wellies, orange...
Magda Michalska 23 October 2022
The Angels’ Forge: Marrying Glass with Modern Art
This is a story of an Italian man, Egidio Costantini, who was a radiotelegraph operator, a bank cashier, and a manual laborer extracting oils from...
Magda Michalska 20 October 2022
Abstract Expressionism: Joan Mitchell
A master of the New York School who expatriated to France, Joan Mitchell tirelessly explored new ways of expression and reinvented the landscape in...
Louisa Mahoney 15 October 2022
How Picasso Changed Art by Inspiring Others
At the beginning of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso created the famous Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Georges Braque was immediately inspired and...
Wendy Gray 10 October 2022
