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Art History, But Make It Memes

Who Said Paintings Aren’t Memeable?

Timeless Art Memes For The Modern Scroll

“Borrowed History” by Artist Tang Shuo

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22 Art History Cats for Pet Parents Picking Up Painting This Spooky Season

Well, at least MOST of them are cats (we think).Cats are everywhere nowadays. They cheer us up by appearing on our daily feeds, or they throw our most breakable things over the nig...

Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance

Anstis' solo show 'Pastels' just opened at Olney Gleason in New York City. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent ar...

A Lesson in Art Mastery: Degas’ Color Alchemy

Based on his academic training and bourgeois background, the career arc of Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) could hardly have been predicted. A draftsman with a deep understanding o...

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French artist JR performs one of his characteristic jumps as he poses in front of his installation "DILUVIUM" at the Vatican Apostolic Library, at the Vatican. — Reuters

5 Iconic Famous Paintings To Bring Classic Art Into Your Living Room

Blank walls don’t tell much about the person in the room. Printed reproductions are a more affordable substitute for original art, but they are often dull and not as closely connec...

Fragments of Hilma af Klint: Inspiration at the Grand Palais

The recent Hilma af Klint retrospective at the Grand Palais explored how the Swedish artist pioneered abstract painting. Here's a look inside.

From Botticelli to Beyoncé: the Ashmolean Museum’s ‘Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess’

Aphrodite. A goddess, an image, an icon. The goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality, known by the Romans as Venus, has appeared countlessly over the past 5000 years across a wide v...

An In-Depth, Immersive Journey Through the Bayeux Tapestry

With the Bayeux Tapestry now on display at the British Museum, Deep Down History presents a deep dive into the embroidery’s full story: “The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most rema...

The National Gallery, London: Art Guide for Beginners #1

Sorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown belo […]

The History and Iconography of the Image of The Savior Not Made By Hands

Zhanna KurbatovaIn 1204, the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and carried the Image Not Made by Hands away from the Byzantine Empire. Its subsequent fate remains unknown.

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

Tate Modern opens the first major exhibition to explore Pictorialism as a global photographic movement. From the 1880s, Pictorialism transformed photography from a documentary tool...

'Here's looking at you, kid' - a heartbreak history

A new exhibition in Oxford attempts to chart the history of loves lost through various art mediums.

This digital artist takes inspiration from Old Masters and orientalist paintings

Discover the art of Brian Yuen.

Back to School With Winslow Homer

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Hilma af Klint in Paris

Can Abstraction have a feminine voice? Rediscovering the vision of swedish Painter Hilma af Klint rt is often […]

Art History and Pop Culture Converge in Frederich Kunath’s ‘The Nearest Faraway Place’

The artist describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent ar...

Negotiating Portraits as Sites For Identity and Selfhood in Luchong’s Portraiture

Leonardo da Vinci famously described painting as “poetry which is seen and not heard” and poetry as “a painting which is heard but not seen,” but I think Luchong’s work complicates...

A Brief History of Stolen Paintings

At five minutes past seven in the morning of Monday 21st August 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian decorator, walked into the Louvre in Paris dressed in a white workman’s smock si...

The Art of the Unexpected: 32 Real Photos That Look Like Renaissance Paintings

What happens when you press the shutter at exactly the right moment and somehow end up with something that looks like it belongs inside an old European museum? That’s the magic beh...

so cute! louvre-lens exhibition unpacks the art of happiness from ancient times until today

through more than 300 works, from ancient cats to rebellious soft toys and the history of pink and glitter, the show examines art's ability to bring us joy and comfort. The post so...