Ever wondered why we are fascinated and confused by beautiful paintings that have ominous images?
Brain researchers in the field of Neuroscience have increasingly turned their eyes on art in an effort to understand how we see these works of art.
There is a deep portion of the brain, the amygdala, which triggers BOTH negative […]
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If you happen to be in Venice between June and November this year, you will find yourself in the midst of the most important art show in the world, the Venice Biennale. The Olympics of art.
Art from 88 countries fills the museums, the palazzos, the canal-fronted warehouses, […]
Jacob Lawrence
1917-2000
“The migration was spurred on by the treatment of the tenant farmers by the planter.”
Jacob Lawrence
One hundred years ago there were two big issues in America…migration […]
Evening Landscape North Frisia, date unknown
Emil Nolde
Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany
Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Although he joined the Nazi party in the early ’30s, Emil Nolde’s paintings were confiscated from the museums and his work was slandered as Degenerate Art.
From […]
The bed is our earliest memory and perhaps our last. It is a place of repose, a place of dreams, a place to share secrets and to hide them.
Artists throughout history have used the bed as a backdrop to drama, passion, and scenes of sheer beauty.
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The young woman floats in a shimmering crust of gold. Her dark head emerges, as if drowning in gold. Her look is sultry, an earthly goddess.
The model, Adele Bloch-Bauer, was […]
He was 36, her art teacher, and a dashing provocateur of the strict German art establishment in 1902.
She was 25, a liberated woman […]
A little over 100 years ago, in 1911, a group of Russian and German artists working in Munich rebelled against the established traditions of art in Germany. The group named themselves “Blue Rider.”
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Light, light, light. Light in all its effervescence; light falling in scattered shining flecks, shimmering incandescent pigment. Light like it had never before been painted.
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) became […]