Inji Efflatoun in Prison (1959–1963): Painting the Unrenewable
Inji Efflatoun (1924-1989) was an Egyptian painter as well as a Marxist and feminist activist. From June 1959 to July 1963, she was imprison
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julia_mji@me.com
- Mar 5
- 10 min
Changing New York. The photographic cultural expression of a developing urban ideology by Berenice
The contribution of Berenice Abbott in the photographic reconstitution of the urban environment is very important and can be summarized in
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Agnieszka Kot
- Jan 24
- 17 min
Masculine‑feminine fantasies: the phantasmagorias of Hans Bellmer
In 2013, the publishing house Word/Image Territory reissued the book Bellmer, or The Anatomy of Physical Unconsciousness and Love. On one of
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George Holmes
- Nov 15, 2022
- 29 min
Andy Warhol: Seeing, Ideas, and Collaboration
The initial impression and feeling that Andy Warhol was in love with seeing, become stronger, persistent, and overwhelming as the enormous b
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Antonia Dapena-Tretter
- Aug 30, 2022
- 13 min
Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke: Painting the Postwar German Experience
In 1962, artists Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke graduated from the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. Within a year's time, they had begun a brief
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Bob Chaundy
- Sep 18, 2021
- 3 min
Mervyn Peake – British Library acquires his Visual Archive
Mervyn Peake will be best remembered as the author of the Gormenghast trilogy, those wonderful novels full of eccentric characters populatin
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julia_mji@me.com
- May 18, 2021
- 3 min
Egyptian pioneer artists: Ragheb Ayad
Ragheb Ayad is one of the leading painters of a generation of Egyptian artists commonly referred to as the pioneers (ar-ruwwād ), as they w
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David Arturo Carranco Villarnobo
- Jan 19, 2021
- 6 min
Who was Roy Lichtenstein?
Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements. He was born in Ne
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Salazar Quas
- Nov 10, 2020
- 16 min
Experimentation in Contemporary art in China: Xu Bing and Zhang Xiaogang
Investigating the role of experimentation in the creation and emergence of contemporary art from China in the latter quarter of the 20th cen
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Emilie Croning
- Oct 12, 2020
- 6 min
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Childlike Exploration among A Panel of Experts
Originally a graffiti artist in New York City, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) created artworks exploring his own life alongside socio-poli
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julia_mji@me.com
- Jul 5, 2020
- 8 min
Art and Mass Media: Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist, born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945. After studying at Syracuse University in 1964 for one y
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julia_mji@me.com
- Apr 30, 2020
- 5 min
Ethic and Photographic: Sally Mann
How much is the conception of art and its banning a matter of times? Taking into consideration Sally Mann’s Immediate Family (1992) and the
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julia_mji@me.com
- Mar 19, 2020
- 9 min
Plague in Art: 11 Paintings You Should Know in the Times of Coronavirus
As the coronavirus is spreading around the globe we want to show you how artists depicted plague in art in times when plagues were really de
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julia_mji@me.com
- Dec 18, 2019
- 3 min
The Old Orientalism by Katherine Tisné
Take a look at one of the paintings by Katherine Bakhoum Tisne: The black tree. Five figures in a dark landscape. Darkness like...
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