Hermenegildo Bustos: Self-Taught Painter of the People
Hermenegildo Bustos was one of Mexico’s most renowned painters of the 19th century. Despite the lack of Academic training, his portraits stood out...
Jimena Escoto 2 September 2024
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Eerie, Haunting and Below the Sea: DeCaires Taylor’s Underwater Museums
In 2006, British artist Jason deCaires Taylor installed the first undersea sculpture park in the Caribbean. Since that time he has created...
Nadine Waldmann 2 September 2024
Polina Raiko, The Self-Taught Folk Artist Who Turned Tragedy to Triumph
In 1998, for the first time ever, Polina Raiko (1928-2004), a 69-year-old woman who had spent almost her entire life as a wife, mother, and farmer,...
Adam Oestreich 2 September 2024
The Revolutionary Love Affair of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
The American painter Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her abstract representations of flowers and desert landscapes. American photographer Alfred...
Mary Margaret Swets, 2 September 2024
Morris Hirshfield and His Bizarre Animals
It is a common opinion that if you would like to start a career in arts, you should begin as early as possible. But talent knows no boundaries, and...
Zuzanna Stańska 2 September 2024
The Consort of Shiva: Iconography of Parvati
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Maya M. Tola 2 September 2024
Anna Boberg – Self-Taught Painter of Lofoten Landscapes
Anna Boberg was a multidisciplinary self-taught artist active in Stockholm and Paris. She is best known for her arctic landscapes from Lofoten in...
Europeana 2 September 2024
The Unbelievable Story of Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts
If you’ve ever watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you probably remember the scene when the vicious killer bunny (which, as we remember,...
Zuzanna Stańska 2 September 2024
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 Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible (especially...
Sarah Mills 2 September 2024
Masterpiece Story: Maple Trees at Mama by Utagawa Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige’s prints were exported to Europe and became very popular with Western artists. Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh owned...
James W Singer 1 September 2024
Masterpiece Story: The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House by Kikukawa Eizan
The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House by Kikukawa Eizan, is one of the woodblock prints from Vincent and Theo van Gogh’s collection in the Van...
Urvi Chheda 1 September 2024
QUIZ: When Was This Made? Guess the Century! Part 2
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