Masterpiece Story: Perseus Rescuing Andromeda by Cavaliere d’Arpino
The roar of the sea monster blends with the screams of the scared princess! The chained beauty awaits her bloody death as the ugly beast lurches...
James W Singer 19 November 2023
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Meeting Abstract Expressionist Perle Fine
To think about the Abstract Expressionists is almost certainly to picture Jackson Pollock with cans and brushes in hand, dripping paint into large...
Natalia Tiberio 2 November 2023
4 Highly Talented Female Expressionists of the 20th Century
It always feels amazing to learn about new artists, especially the ones that produced abstract works. As a fan of Abstract Expressionism, I recently...
Merve Parla 2 November 2023
Is Jeff Koons’ Art Pornography? (18+)
Jeff Koons has been controversial from the very beginning of his career, which began in around 1979. Having experimented with inflatable bunnies,...
Magda Michalska 19 October 2023
The Birth of Cool: Hard-Edge Paintings by Karl Benjamin
Could a painting style capture the aesthetic of an entire era? Could it give form to the bouncy, cool optimism of post-bebop jazz music? Karl...
Julia Bourbois 25 September 2023
Paintings at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Exhibition review of "Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting" at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian
Jennifer S. Musawwir 9 August 2023
A Search for Solace at Innisfree Gardens
Art itself is often closely associated with some form of solace or peace. Though not all art exists to establish in oneself an inner tranquility,...
Alina Manevskaya 24 July 2023
Art Creating Art: Old Westbury Gardens
When Jay Phipps and Margarita Grace married on November 4th, 1903, they wed at Battle Abbey in East Sussex, England. There the 1066 Battle of...
Anthony de Feo 24 July 2023
The Louvre Pyramid and 5 Other Museums Designed by I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘), known as I. M. Pei (1917-2019) was a Chinese American modernist architect with international acclaim. Exciting for art...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 8 June 2023
Artists in Prime Time: Art Featured in The Simpsons
Back in the mid-1990s, a friend of mine showed me a book titled Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life. It was just what the title described, America’s...
Bruno Guerra 5 May 2023
Pink Unicorns and Cowboys: Welcome to Will Cotton’s Own Wild West
New York-based artist Will Cotton is widely known for his distinctive iconography and style. Even those uninterested in art will recognize his candy...
Yasmin Ozkan 9 April 2023
Theater and Cinema in Edward Hopper’s Paintings
Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. He was famous for two types of paintings in particular: first, one focused on...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 March 2023
