Life And The Human Condition Through The Eyes Of Oswaldo Guayasamín
Early Life and Works Oswaldo Guayasamín was born into a humble family in Quito, Ecuador on July 6, 1919, as the oldest of 10 siblings. His father...
Kacper Grass 9 May 2018
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Painting Of The Week: Lemminkäinen’s Mother by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Finnish National Gallery recently applied an open licence (CC0) to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading...
Europeana 6 May 2018
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
Educating Through Art: What We Can Learn From Frederick Schiller’s Writings
Why Art? Any form of Art is devoted to (providing) joy, and there is not any higher and not any more serious duty than to make the human beings...
Jean-Marc Rakotolahy 3 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: Werner Holmberg’s Road in Häme
The Finnish National Gallery recently applied an open licence (CC0) to its digital reproductions of out-of-copyright works, joining leading...
Europeana 29 April 2018
In Life, In Art, Till Death Do Us Part: The Romance Of Georgina And Lucílio de Albuquerque
Do you like art history and love stories? You’ve come to the right place because here we have both! Today we present the story of love and art...
Rute Ferreira 27 April 2018
Faceless Women and Fungi – The Art of Ewa Juszkiewicz
How many portraits of faceless women, with fungi in place of their heads have you ever seen? None? Well, until now, that is. Ewa Juszkiewicz,...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 17 April 2018
Painting of the Week: Portrait of A Man in Red Chalk (aka Leonardo da Vinci)
Hello, it’s me, I was wondering if after all these years (exactly 566 today) you’d like to meet… Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of a...
Magda Michalska 15 April 2018
Get To Know The Cultural Legacy of Albert, Prince Consort
The Royal Collection is one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to...
Wendy Gray 12 April 2018
Selfie-feminism, the Sad Girl Theory and the Sad Girls of Instagram
A new wave of female artists started to appear on Instagram. They come from various backgrounds, were born in different decades, their styles are...
Wojtek Rozdzenski 11 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
