Tamara de Lempicka: The First Woman Artist to Be a Glamour Star
Tamara de Lempicka, star of the Art Deco world, was described by her Hollywood clients as the “Baroness of the Brush.” If one wanted to enter the...
Magda Michalska 29 August 2024
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A 1920s Art Party with Tamara de Lempicka
Let’s imagine a glamorous party in the 1920s – and our host is the grand Tamara de Lempicka! We can hear jazz playing in the background and see...
Marija Canjuga 29 August 2024
10 Things You Must Know About Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka was many things: a successful artist, a society darling, and an expat. She knew how to create interest in herself and capitalize...
Joanna Kaszubowska 29 August 2024
Mary Cassatt: An Image of Motherhood
Mary Cassatt was the only American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Although she never married or had children of her own, she is best...
Ruxi Rusu 28 August 2024
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 28 August 2024
Olga Boznanska: The Uneasy Story of a Polish Painter
Olga Boznanska was one of the most famous Polish female painters. Her multiple portraits of fragile women and children are permeated with notes of...
Magda Michalska, Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 28 August 2024
Fanny Brate: An Everyday Painter You Need to Know
Fanny Brate was born in Stockholm in 1861. Showing great potential from a young age, she started taking drawing and painting classes when she was...
Gokce Dyson 28 August 2024
Listen to the Butt Music on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is a three-part altarpiece showing the Garden of Eden on the left and a vision of hell on the right.
Zuzanna Stańska 27 August 2024
Music and Temporality in the Art of Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a “musical” painter, not least because he chose the violin and bow before the brush and easel. Klee’s father was a music teacher...
Craig Wakerley 27 August 2024
The Sound of Painting: Music and Art
Music and art have long been closely tied together, each taking inspiration from the other (for better or for worse). Some remarkable music has been...
Sarah Mills 27 August 2024
10 Most Famous Self-Portraits by Female Artists
Although known as a modern day invention, selfies have actually been around for centuries, albeit in the more traditional form of self-portraits.
Charlotte Stace 26 August 2024
10 Most Scary Paintings
Paintings can represent both real and unreal themes and scary paintings are a mixture of both. Among all the emotions that make up the human psyche,...
Gabriela Hurtado 26 August 2024
