Aniela Rybak

May 23, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Errika Gerakiti |Iolanda Munck |Aniela Rybak |Valeria Kumekina

Vanitas is an art genre that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Netherlands. The term originates from the Latin word for vanity (in the sense of emptiness or a worthless action). It symbolizes the brevity of life, the upcoming and certain death, as well as the pointlessness of pleasure. Thus, it criticizes all human ambition and vanity to its core.

May 23, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Aniela Rybak |Errika Gerakiti |Iolanda Munck |Valeria Kumekina

Artist Stories I encountered Gego (or rather her art) for the first time at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City last spring. It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was on my way to Central Park when I decided to visit the exhibition that had just opened at the museum, titled “Measuring Infinity.” Little did I know, it turned out to be the best exhibition I had ever seen at the Guggenheim. Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1912.

Feb 9, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Maya Tola |Natalia Tiberio |Zuzanna Stanska |Aniela Rybak

This collection of paintings in idyllic settings is the legacy of artist and illustrator João Batista da Costa. Batista da Costa was active in the late 19th and early 20th century in Brazil. Despite a difficult start in life, Batista da Costa’s natural artistic acumen pushed him to exceptional creative heights and earned him several notable accolades. Early AcumenJoão Batista da Costa was from the Itaguaí municipality of Rio de Janeiro.

Nov 2, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Tommy Thiange |Louisa Mahoney |Candy Bedworth |Aniela Rybak

Artist Stories The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels is currently hosting an exhibition titled In the Eye of the Storm—Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s. This captivating exhibition illustrates how artists from this period were skillful in forging their artistic presence, seamlessly blending their tradition with the influences of the Western avant-garde.

Sep 10, 2023 | dailyartmagazine.com | Louisa Mahoney |Candy Bedworth |Aniela Rybak |Jimena Escoto

Art Travels Contemporary Art Artist StoriesKarlo Zvirynskyi (1923–1997) was the true epitome of an underground artist. Having rejected the Soviet Union’s official socialist realist style, he secretly created modernist art and taught others. His first solo exhibition took place only two years before his death. Historical BackgroundKarlo Zvirynskyi was born in 1923 in the village of Lavriv in the Carpathian Mountains in Western Ukraine, then part of Poland.