Giuggiola1 day agoWhy Does Everyone Look the Same in Ancient Egyptian Art?thecollector.com - Nicole B. HansenWe know what several ancient pharaohs looked like because their mummies have been preserved, and we also know that subsequent kings often had very …
GiuggiolaJun 28, 2020The Top 30 Art Movements In Western History: Characteristics And Stylesthecollector.com - Charlotte DavisWestern art history has undergone a plethora of changes, resulting in an extremely diverse range of techniques, styles, and mediums. Art has long …
Giuggiola6 days agoRevealed: why Van Gogh’s ‘empty chair’ paintings were never shown togetherverified_publisherThe Guardian - Donna FergusonShortly before Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear and had a breakdown after quarrelling with his fellow artist, Paul Gauguin, in the French city of Arles in 1888, he created a pair of extraordinary paintings. One, Gauguin’s Chair, depicts a couple of books and a lit candle discarded on an ornate …
GiuggiolaJun 17Who Was Piet Mondrian Before He Painted His Iconic Abstract Grids?smithsonianmag.com - Elizabeth DjinisPiet Mondrian’s name is indistinguishable from his signature style: blocks of reds, blues and yellows against a black-and-white grid. But few know …
Giuggiola5 days agoMATTERS OF OBSESSION: A personal contemplation on Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio — L’Atelier Rougedailymaverick.co.za - Lucinda JollyOf The Red Studio, Matisse is reputed to have said to a visiting journalist “I like it, but I don’t completely understand it. I like it, but I don’t …
Giuggiola4 days agoThe Afterlives of Edvard Munchartreview.comHow the artist’s radical vulnerability reverberates through art, literature and cinema In Edvard Munch’s House in Moonlight (1893-95), a man in a hat …