Picasso and His 15 Versions of Les Femmes d’Alger
When the Algerian War of Independence began on 1st November 1954, Pablo Picasso felt an urge to somehow respond to the violence and suffering that ...
Magda Michalska 3 October 2021
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Take Me Down to My Boat on the River: Rivers in Famous Paintings
From the dawn of civilization, rivers have been the crux of human life. Most great cities are built around rivers. We use them for sustenance, ...
Anastasia Manioudaki 31 May 2021
Bringing Up Baby – The Art of Parenting Through The Ages
Childcare can take so many forms. Kids throughout history have been raised by gay dads, lesbian moms, whole villages, singles, and adoptive parents. ...
Candy Bedworth 9 May 2021
Liberty Leading the People: Delacroix, French Revolution, and Coldplay
Eugène Delacroix's birthday is one of the illustrious anniversaries of the month of April. To honor him, one of the greatest artists of French ...
Rute Ferreira 26 April 2021
700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death in 15 Great Artworks
Hardly any author has been such a rich source of literary inspiration for the visual arts as Dante Alighieri. His two major works, the La Vita Nuova ...
Caroline Mokrohajská 13 April 2021
Famous Lobsters in Art
Lobsters, large marine crustaceans, have been eaten by humans since prehistoric times. They became a delicacy by the Roman period. They were also ...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 April 2021
When the Arts Meet: Art Inspired Album Covers
If music is the soul of an album then the art on the cover must be its body. The choice of artwork for an album cover is an important one because at ...
Anastasia Manioudaki 11 May 2020
The Orientalism of Eugène Delacroix – Beware of the Colors!
Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was seen as the leader of the French Romantic school of art from the beginning of his career. ...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 April 2020
The Majestic Paintings of Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The rooms were dimly lit and majestic, and the paintings of Eugène Delacroix were larger than life. The Metropolitan Museum presented these ...
Howard Schwartz 12 November 2018
