Fernando Botero’s Guide to Colombian History and Culture
The Most Colombian of Colombian Artists New York City. Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid. Paris, France. Goslar and Bamberg, Germany. Vaduz,...
Kacper Grass 30 May 2018
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Misunderstood Music, Forbidden Romance and Richard Gerstl’s Art
When an avant-garde composer and painter becomes friends with an avant-garde painter, their relationship will be a stormy one. And if the wife of one...
Magda Michalska 22 May 2018
A Study of Loneliness and Isolation: The Man in Blue
So here he is. A mysterious guy in a suit, drinking at the hotel bar. Everything is dark around him, he himself seems to be blurry and undefined...
Zuzanna Stańska 20 May 2018
The Explosive Life and Death of Carel Fabritius
There is very little known about the life of Carel Fabritius. The scholars didn’t really get a chance to delve into archival materials about...
Magda Michalska 16 May 2018
Painting Of The Week: J. A. D. Ingres, Paolo and Francesca
Paolo and Francesca is painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, produced in seven known versions between 1814 and 1819. The...
Zuzanna Stańska 13 May 2018
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
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
Let’s Sing Praises to Song Dynasty Genius Artist Ma Yuan
There’s more to the paintings of Ma Yuan than meets the eye. Ma Yuan, (1160-1225) was a Southern Song Dynasty, Chinese painter from an illustrious...
Barry Russell 18 April 2018
