Eli Anapur

Salzburg

Staff Writer and Editor at Wide Walls Magazine

art historian, writer @widewalls1| doctoral researcher @UniGraz | surviving life one artwork at a time

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Most Evocative Paintings of Love in Art History

1 day ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Love is again ready to captivate our thoughts, at least for a day. And while no one is immune to its charms, the course of true love never runs smooth, to paraphrase Shakespeare. As history shows us, love is often plagued with disappointments, social dogmas, and expectations.
Prado Mona Lisa Exhibition Reveals Leonardo's Studio Secrets

1 day ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

The name of Leonardo da Vinci always raises enormous interest in the art world. The famed Renaissance polymath, celebrated for his paintings but also engineering ideas, scientific explorations, and writings, has been a subject of another research recently, conducted by the Museo Nacional del Prado. This time, the focus is on the artist’s immediate circle and works created in his studio, including the copy of the Mona Lisa.
Luis Buñuel's Movies, Masterworks of Surrealism

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

A razor cutting an eye open, shown in a disturbing closeup, is one of the most memorable scenes from film history. It is a scene that is impossible to forget, especially as a few shots before, a young girl is shown handled by a man weaving the razor. The link is impossible to escape. The scene is from the film An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou), 1929, directed by Luis Buñuel.
8 Seminal Examples of Land Art and Where to See Them

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

In the 1960s, the art world was shaken by the appearance of conceptual art, a new art movement that shifted the focus from visual aspects of an artwork to the idea behind it. Among the various manifestations of this new art was also land art, earthworks, or earth art, as it is also called. Featured image: Richard Long – The Houghton Cross at Houghton Hall, 2017.
Ceramic Techniques Every Pottery Lover Should Know

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

From utility to art and back, ceramics is one of the rare forms of expression that has often encompassed both definitions at the same time. Different ceramic techniques provide pottery makers and artists alike with the wide array of choices to demonstrate their skills, aesthetic tastes, and even political and social stances—and all that often through utility wares.
Most Expensive Artworks 2022

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

With 2022 almost behind us, we take a look at what marked the year, including the best sellers in the art market. The years were full of turbulence, starting with the war in Europe and the collapse of the crypto market to the ongoing global health crisis and ecological devastation. However, the art market managed to bounce back from a lackluster pandemic phase, bringing in a total of $65.1 billion, a marked rise of 29% from the previous year.
The Nightmare: Henry Fuseli’s Gothic Masterpiece of Romantic Art

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

A mare was waiting for the visitors of the Royal Academy Exhibition in London in 1782. Among the long lines of portraits of gentlemen and ladies, as the exhibition catalogue reveals, an unusual painting awaited to scare and amaze. The mare in its title The night-mare, printed on page 6, is not, however, the mare we would expect today, although a horse’s head appears in the painting. Instead, it is the mare from Samuel Jonson’s dictionary, a creature of nightmares that torments sleepers.
Goya's Critique of Society

2 months ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Witchcraft and witches have perplexed and troubled human imagination for centuries. These elusive women endowed with magical powers have been the subject of many fables and fairytales and were used to both scare and empower, to reveal female agency, and to suppress it.
Donatello Sculptures and Where to See the Most Famous Ones

2 months ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Renaissance humanism profoundly changed the way artists saw the world and represented it. With the revival of ancient philosophy and renowned interest in art from antiquity, new forms based on classical models emerged and took over the Gothic style. Considered the most important sculptor of the early Renaissance, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi or Donatello introduced a new style based on naturalism and is regarded as a forefather of the Italian Renaissance.
Famous Winter Paintings by Modern and Contemporary Artists

2 months ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

With the holidays approaching, we have made a list of the famous winter paintings from modern and contemporary artists inspired by the changes in nature the last season of the year is bringing about. While in modern times representation of winter is among the usual topics, in the past such theme was rarely chosen, and was often a backdrop for religious or historical narrative paintings or manuscripts.