Feeling Under the Weather? Art Is the Best Medicine
November is a month of runny noses, sniffing, and coughing (at least in cold parts of Europe…). If you’re lying in bed with a fever, we...
Magda Michalska 18 November 2024
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Painter’s Biggest Fear: The Blindness of Claude Monet
The eyes of an artist put to the service of art can reveal to us an unspeakable world that is very present around us. But what does this world, this...
Christopher Michaut 14 November 2024
4 Delicious Still Lifes to (Re)Discover Claude Monet
Amazing Impressionist landscapes, wonderful water lilies, the floral explosion at the famous Giverny garden… But what is perhaps less known...
Andra Patricia Ritisan 14 November 2024
Claude Monet: Explore His Home and Garden in Giverny
Claude Monet used his beautiful home and garden in Giverny, France, as the inspiration source for many of his paintings. We can all learn from the...
Nina Relf 14 November 2024
Venice in the Eyes of Claude Monet
Claude Monet fell in love with Venice the first time he saw it. He was 68 years old, and he went on a trip with his wife, Alice Hoschedé. The light...
Zuzanna Stańska 14 November 2024
Art History 101: Everything You Need to Know About Romanticism
At the end of the 18th century, artists began to reject the ideas of the Enlightenment which prioritized reason above all. They wanted to consider...
Jimena Escoto 8 November 2024
Claude Monet and Saint Lazare Train Station
Between 1853 and 1870 Paris has been renovated and modernized by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussmann. This prefect of the...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 November 2024
Fabulous Railway Station Paintings from the Golden Age of Train Travel
Once upon a time, train travel was the height of fashion. That’s why the second half of the 19th century and first few decades of the 20th century...
Alexandra Kiely 5 November 2024
Famous Painters and Their Children
On June 1st, 1925, the World Conference for the Well-Being of Children held in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International...
Magda Michalska 23 October 2024
5 Best Picnic Inspirations from Art
When the days are warm and long, all I can think about are picnics and barbecues. When the sun is shining, the grass is green and birds are singing.
Magda Michalska 23 September 2024
Masterpiece Story: Autumn Effects at Argenteuil by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted Autumn Effects at Argenteuil in late 1873, which was the moment when the Impressionist movement started to roar on the Paris art...
Zuzanna Stańska 22 September 2024
Back to School: The Great Art History 101
Welcome to Art History 101! Here we’ll get to “oh“ and “ah” over iconic art that has shaped human ideas and thinking for centuries as we...
Ledys Chemin 13 September 2024
