#Paris

Art Travels

Online Art Travels: An Ultimate Banksy City Guide

Nowadays, everyone knows Banksy. They actually only know his name and his art, since he still remains anonymous. Many have written and write about...

Camilla de Laurentis 26 January 2026

Women Artists

Suzanne Valadon and Her Self-Portraits

Suzanne Valadon, the French artist of the 19th century, was an absolute master of self-portraits. She fashioned her own look in so many different...

Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 21 January 2026

Impressionism

Julie Manet—Who Was This Pretty Girl Immortalized by the Impressionists?

Julie Manet—called the beauty of Impressionism—was the daughter of the wealthy, well-connected painter Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, brother...

Pola Otterstein 19 January 2026

Berthe Morisot, Woman In Grey Reclining, 1879 Women Artists

Berthe Morisot: A Modern Parisian Woman

Berthe Morisot was an influential painter at the heart of the French Impressionist movement. Ahead of her time, her work was innovative, fresh, and...

Candy Bedworth 14 January 2026

Berthe Morisot, Summer's Day Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: Summer’s Day by Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot was at the centre of Impressionism during the 1870s and 1880s and works like Summer’s Day seem utterly characteristic of the...

Catriona Miller 13 January 2026

Impressionism

Eva Gonzalès: Female Impressionist in the Shadows

While Eva Gonzalès’ privileged upbringing and supportive family gave her the opportunities to grow in her artistic abilities and broaden her...

Rachel Witte 13 January 2026

Animals

The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau was a French artist who painted in a Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), which was a...

Zuzanna Stańska 12 January 2026

Artist Stories

Let’s Ride a Tiger! Escape into the Tropics with Henri Rousseau

Let’s ride a tiger! Definitely not! We should never try to ride a tiger, and Henri Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible...

Sarah Mills 12 January 2026

Fashion

Madame Grès, The Sphinx of Fashion

During the 1930s, fashion was heavily influenced by ancient Greece. In the previous decades, there was an appreciation through patterns such as the...

Errika Gerakiti 12 January 2026

Yves Klein, Peinture de Feu sans titre, 1961 Artist Stories

7 Not Just Blue Masterpieces by Yves Klein

Although he only lived 34 years, it could seem that Yves Klein lived more than one life. This French artist initially devoted himself to the...

Camilla de Laurentis 1 January 2026

Quiz

QUIZ: Who Painted the Party? Awesome Parties in Art History

Ledys Chemin 31 December 2025

Artist Stories

Félix Vallotton: Illustrator of Fin de Siècle Paris

Félix Vallotton was a Swiss painter who left his home country to join the artistic nebula of Paris at the fin de siècle—the end of the century.

Kaena Daeppen 29 December 2025