An Ideal Home
From the 1920s until his death in 1944, William Heath Robinson drew a series of scenes for magazines and books, inspired by the rapid expansion of housing in interwar Britain … Continue Reading An Ideal Home
The Kiss
The meeting of lips par excellence since 1908, The Kiss is an oil painting, with added silver and gold leaf by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. Love, intimacy, and … Continue Reading The Kiss
Classical Office
A few years ago, Alla saw her colleagues talking in the beanbags of their office after a hard working day, and she thought “They look exactly like characters from my … Continue Reading Classical Office
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Known as “the Mona Lisa of the North”, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring over the years has become one of the most iconic artworks in history. Very little … Continue Reading Girl with a Pearl Earring
Banksy with a Mask
Judging by what he’s doing around the rooms of his apartment, even Banksy seems to be following official advice from the British government to stay at home, nice and easy. … Continue Reading Banksy with a Mask
Thanks
There are words that lately seem to be starting to take shape in people’s minds. To hover in the air, suggested by the scents of the seasons that looked like … Continue Reading Thanks
Spring is the Time
Cultivating passions, cultivating dreams. Cultivating art or relationships, this is what all the works by Natalia Dobrzhanskaya seem to enclose everytime into a single concept/object, especially one of her last … Continue Reading Spring is the Time
Infinite Spaces
Through his drawings, engravings and installations Matías Armendaris investigates the pauses or signs that relate the material poetics of objects to their semiotic potential for metamorphosis. His work is articulated … Continue Reading Infinite Spaces
Mona Lisa
Lisa di Antonmaria Gherardini — also called Lisa del Giocondo, after her marriage — was born on 15 June 1479, in Florence. She married in her teens to Francesco del … Continue Reading Mona Lisa
They Won’t Talk About Us
Life and memories are so important, and you have to remember. Nobody wants their own name and existence to fade into oblivion. So we just have to grow and protect … Continue Reading They Won’t Talk About Us
Failun Failun Mefailun
What does it even mean? It seems to have something to do with metrics and rhythmical patterns of Turkish poetry. And the author behind this combo is from Turkey. His … Continue Reading Failun Failun Mefailun
Moments of Life
For 10 years now, Jisbar’s art has been moving the benchmark in pop culture with mischievous irony. His work is best known for his re-interpretations of classical and historical paintings. … Continue Reading Moments of Life
Art Masks
Who knows if the artists of the past, so totally taken by their visions and their techniques, today they would’ve customized their accessories or perhaps created their own brands, relaxing … Continue Reading Art Masks
It can’t rain all the time
Like a faint trail in the trash of a humankind ineluctably indifferent to its host planet, the art by Pejac gently appears on the surface of things, a final beauty’s testimony … Continue Reading It can’t rain all the time
Pigeons
Naturally granivorous and easily forgettable race — at least until we find them suddenly between the feet, or on the heads, through the unmistakable whitish material for which, together with … Continue Reading Pigeons
How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
Remember how to make a spool tank? How to whip apples? What to do with a discarded umbrella? Whether “pennies” comes before or after “spank the baby” in mumbly-peg? And … Continue Reading How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself
