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
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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
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...
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...
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...
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
Charles Santore Exhibition at Woodmere Art Museum
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
5 Portinari’s Paintings that Reveal that He Was the Painter of the Brazilian People
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
And it’s War! The Art Of The War Wounded
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
Stanley Spencer. A Cookham Homebird with Broken Wings
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
When Trash Turns Art: El Anatsui
People often say that contemporary art is trash. But, can we turn the equation the other way and make trash art? El Anatsui’s grand...
Magda Michalska 15 February 2018
