How Dutch Still Life Made Its Way Home After WWII
What happens to artworks and cultural treasures as a nation prepares for war? In the case of Jan van Huysum’s Vase of Flowers, the Dutch still...
Natalia Iacobelli 28 February 2025
Vincent van Gogh’s Iconic Sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers are probably among the most famous paintings of all time. The artist loved these yellow flowers and painted them...
Anastasia Manioudaki 28 February 2025
10 Iconic Floral Still Lifes You Need to Know
Flowers have long been a central theme in still-life painting. Each flower carries its own symbolism. For example, they can represent innocence,...
Errika Gerakiti 28 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: Vase with Flowers by Rachel Ruysch
Let’s discuss one of the greatest still-life artists: Rachel Ruysch. Still-life paintings do not draw the crowds at museums. They are often...
James W Singer 28 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: Capturing the Moment by Joaquín Sorolla
The Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla spent most of his summers with his family in French Biarritz, 35 kilometers from the border with Spain. The beach...
Zuzanna Stańska 27 February 2025
Joaquín Sorolla in 10 Paintings—The Mastery of Capturing the Moment
The Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) had a magical way of capturing light, whether it is sun-drenched beaches, shimmering water, or scenes...
Joanna Kaszubowska 27 February 2025
A Tulip Means Love—Decoding the Hidden Messages of Flowers
Nowadays we have social media, emails, and telephone calls. But a century ago, it was not quite as easy to get a message or love note across to...
Rachel Witte 27 February 2025
Joaquín Sorolla: The Luminosity of the Mediterranean
If you love summer light, long vacation days, walking on the beach, and lying on the sand with a good book in your hand, these paintings by Joaquín...
Andra Patricia Ritisan 27 February 2025
8 Things Everyone Should Know About Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism. His best works, painted in the open air, vividly portray...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 February 2025
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Masterpiece Story: Vision of Spain by Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla’s monumental series, Vision of Spain, stands as one of the most ambitious and celebrated works of his career. Commissioned by the...
Nikolina Konjevod 26 February 2025
Kandinsky’s Magic World of Fairy Tales
Wassily Kandinsky, a renowned abstract artist, is chiefly associated with Der Blaue Reiter, an international group of avant-garde artists based in...
Magda Michalska 26 February 2025
How Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Was Inspired by the Late Medieval Tapestry
In Charles Perrault’s 17th-century literary world, knights, dragons, and spellbound princesses persisted centuries after the topic diminished. As...
Anna Ingram 26 February 2025
Joaquín Sorolla: The Luminosity of the Mediterranean
If you love summer light, long vacation days, walking on the beach, and lying on the sand with a good book in your hand, these paintings by Joaquín...
Andra Patricia Ritisan 27 February 2025
Joaquín Sorolla in 10 Paintings—The Mastery of Capturing the Moment
The Spanish master Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) had a magical way of capturing light, whether it is sun-drenched beaches, shimmering water, or scenes...
Joanna Kaszubowska 27 February 2025
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Impressive Life of an Impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading member of Impressionism, was perhaps the most vibrant painter of color and light in the famous French movement.
Sam Malone 25 February 2025
4 Delicious Still Lifes to (Re)Discover Claude Monet
Amazing Impressionist landscapes, wonderful water lilies, the floral explosion at the famous Giverny garden… But what is perhaps less known...
Andra Patricia Ritisan 14 November 2024
Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris: Modern, Middle Class, and Masculine
Some of Gustave Caillebotte’s most famous paintings show the Parisian boulevards with an Impressionist aura. Yet what exactly he chose to...
Catriona Miller 21 February 2025
8 Things Everyone Should Know About Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter whose style was a variant of Impressionism. His best works, painted in the open air, vividly portray...
Zuzanna Stańska 26 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla’s Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash is a masterpiece of pet images, Futurism, and early 20th-century Italian...
James W Singer, 23 February 2025
Where Is the Queen? Black Women in Western Art
For centuries, Black women appeared in Western art as slaves, servants, or exotic novelties. But as regal queens and leaders? Shamefully not. We will...
Candy Bedworth 17 February 2025
Happily Ever After? 5 Fairytales in Art
Fairytales have existed for centuries, taking many forms—myths, folk stories, and narrated legends. Every culture has woven its versions, passing...
Errika Gerakiti 26 February 2025
Masterpiece Story: Vision of Spain by Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla’s monumental series, Vision of Spain, stands as one of the most ambitious and celebrated works of his career. Commissioned by the...
Nikolina Konjevod 26 February 2025
10 Marvellous Madonna Paintings
10 paintings from across art history, focusing on Madonna, the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
Candy Bedworth 24 February 2025
The 10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art (NSFW)
We’re here to let you in on a pretty widely known secret about art history: it is all about sex. Nude representations of men and women caused...
Zuzanna Stańska 24 September 2024
