Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin
Joseph Roulin worked for a post office in the French town of Arles. He didn’t carry letters—he rather was sorting mail at the train station.
Zuzanna Stańska 30 September 2018
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David Hockney is an artist who lately, while creating his works often reaches for… his iPad. A coloured window designed on a tablet has been...
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Alexandra Kiely 27 September 2018
The Renoir Restitution — A Moving Experience in the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Renoir painted Deux femmes dans un jardin / Two Women in a Garden in 1919, the last year of his life. By this time, the artist’s vision had been...
Howard Schwartz 26 September 2018
Alexander Calder’s The Eagle in Seattle
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Nadine Waldmann 25 September 2018
Johannes Vermeer, Woman Reading a Letter
On the Johannes Vermeer‘s painting, we see a quiet, private moment. In Woman Reading a Letter, a young woman stands engrossed in reading a...
Zuzanna Stańska 23 September 2018
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Magda Michalska 22 September 2018
Everything You Must Know About Pont-Aven School
The year 1886 was a turning point for Paul Gauguin’s career as a painter. That was the year when the village of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France,...
Zuzanna Stańska 21 September 2018
Don’t Play with Your Food! Unless It’s Art
I’m sure we’ve all been told not to play with our food as we hide unappetising peas under a sticky lump of mashed potato. And most parents have...
Candy Bedworth 20 September 2018
Giacometti’s ‘Final Portrait’
The movie ‘Final Portrait’ is a faithful rendition of the book by James Lord, ‘A Giacometti Portrait.’ The book was published in 1965, a year...
Howard Schwartz 19 September 2018
Wanderlust Exhibition – Travel Desire Encapsulated in Paintings
It is the last chance to see Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir – an exhibition on travel desire in the Old National...
Kate Wojtczak 13 September 2018
Emotions Of Rogier Van Der Weyden Restored
Rogier van der Weyden has a very special place in my heart because the first art historical essay that I had ever written at university was on him...
Magda Michalska 6 September 2018
