Women in Kunstmuseum Bern: A Glimpse to the Collection
The collection of Kunstmuseum Bern ranges from the Gothic to the present and currently consists of more than 4,000 paintings and sculptures as well...
Zuzanna Stańska 25 March 2022
European Art
Portraits of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) ruled almost the entire second half of the 18th century. Her reign was very successful on the world arena and gave...
Elizaveta Ermakova 25 March 2022
Abakans – The New Humans of Magdalena Abakanowicz
I can see a group of approximately 250 people, all of them standing. Children and adults. I come closer and I realize they have no heads. I come even...
Magda Michalska 17 March 2022
Meet the Ukrainian Railroad Ladies
Every once in a while there appears a piece of news describing a quirky, unknown, or forgotten occupation. Sometimes it’s the lightkeepers in a...
Joanna Kaszubowska 16 March 2022
Healing Violante Ferroni’s Paintings at San Giovanni di Dio Hospital
In the mid-18th century, Florentine artist Violante Ferroni painted two large religious scenes for the atrium of San Giovanni di Dio hospital. Almost...
Alexandra Kiely 12 March 2022
Henry Moore’s Sheep
Henry Spencer Moore was an English artist. Although his primary role was as a sculptor, there are lots of examples of his sketches. His forms are...
Candy Bedworth 11 March 2022
Painting Human Desire for Happiness – Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
When we think of Gustav Klimt we imagine beautiful portraits of women, sensual and dangerous compositions, gold and decorative motifs. However, if...
Zuzanna Stańska 10 March 2022
Both/And: The Art of Glenys Barton
There are many social, political, scientific, and economic models that are embracing the idea of the “both/and” philosophy. It is my...
Candy Bedworth 10 March 2022
Why Political Actionism Is So Popular in Russia
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
Visit Super Enjoyable Segantini Outdoor Permanent Exhibition in Italy
In a little town in the north of Italy, there’s a very special museum—the en plein air permanent exhibition of the most significant artworks of...
Camilla de Laurentis 7 March 2022
Michelangelo’s Pieta: An Ode to the Sublime
The Pietà – or Virgin of Pity – is the representation of the Blessed Virgin holding her divine son on her knees. This iconic type...
Montaine Dumont 6 March 2022
Want to Insult Your Enemy? Get Inspired by the Badass Zaporozhian Cossacks!
There are dozens if not hundreds of forged documents in the history of the world. They weren’t forged just for fun. Some of them were the basis...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 March 2022
