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Oct 31, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Lisa Scalone |Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Edoardo Cesarino
Francisco Goya’s oeuvre is anything but samey. Whether painting or printmaking, his work is not only celebrated for its mastery but hailed for its relevance, influence, and political message. Los Caprichos (The Caprices) are no exception. They are a set of 80 etchings and aquatints (a printmaking process similar to etching) published as a collection in 1799.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Ruxi Rusu |Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir
1. Mary CassattMary Cassatt (1844–1926) was probably the most famous American Impressionist. Born in Pennsylvania, she moved to Paris in 1865 to study alongside leading academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. She officially settled in Paris almost a decade later, when she met famous Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834–1917), who introduced her to the Impressionists.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Rachel Witte
Crocodiles were considered quite an oddity back then! For the people of the 15th and 16th centuries, they were intriguing creatures that looked a little bit like monsters. Collections like this one, which hosted all kinds of animal species, stones, or shells, primarily served the nobles and rich merchants as status symbols and to make others admire them. Who else could have shown off with a real crocodile? This engraving shows the collection of Italian Ferrante Imperato.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Rachel Witte
According to some fashion experts, beards reached their peak 10 years ago. However, this is not just some seasonal trend. Long, short, trimmed, or rugged, beards are here to stay! If you haven’t grown your own yet, here are beards in paintings for some inspiration!19th-Century StyleWilliam Henry Hunt was an English painter and one of the creators of the English watercolor school. He was born in London and spent most of his life there.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Gabriela Hurtado |Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Rachel Witte
Bizarre min Read European Art Paintings can represent both real and unreal themes and scary paintings are a mixture of both. Among all the emotions that make up the human psyche, fear is the most genuine evidence of man’s nature. Love corresponds to an advanced state of evolutionary development and the neural connections associated with sexual reproduction. However, fear creeps into the present through traces of a more primitive past.
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May 7, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Zuzanna Stanska |Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Rachel Witte
If you’ve witnessed someone fainting in front of great masterpieces, it could have been Stendhal Syndrome—an art lover’s sickness. Stendhal Syndrome, also known as hyperkulturemia or Florence syndrome, is a psychosomatic disorder characterized by rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion, and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to a collection of artworks perceived as exceptionally beautiful, often encountered in settings like art galleries or museums.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Errika Gerakiti |Julia Bourbois |Rachel Witte |Candy Bedworth
Bizarre min Read Art History 101 Paintings of Satan are a recurrent theme in art, ranging from religious portrayals to contemporary interpretations. As the symbolic representation of evil in religious contexts, Satan takes on diverse forms, from a beautiful angel to the most menacing beast, across various global religions. This article delves into lesser-known paintings of Satan, offering a perspective you may not have encountered.
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Anthony de Feo |Julia Bourbois |Jimena Escoto |Jennifer S. Musawwir
Despite the enormity of whales, those pursuing them could go weeks, even months at a time without seeing a single one. With all that time between hunts, sailors needed something to occupy their hands with. From boredom was born the scrimshander. He is the artist who carves scrimshaw: images etched into pieces of bone, antler, or the like. This tradition, which may have early prehistoric origins, is more widely considered the one, true, American art.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Julia Bourbois |Errika Gerakiti |Rachel Witte
Bizarre min Read Asian Art European Art At the beginning of the 20th century, when Japan started embracing the West and rapid industrialization of almost all aspects of life, Miyatake Gaikotsu (funnily enough, gaikotsu means skull/skeleton in Japanese) was the one who questioned and interpreted the nascent culture of modernization. And he did it using puzzlingly curious postcards.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Julia Bourbois |Errika Gerakiti |Rachel Witte
Have you ever imagined a world dominated by animals? Have you read Orwell’s Animal Farm and wondered what it would be like to live in such a world? Well, then brace yourselves for Cassius Coolidge’s paintings where dogs are the main characters!1. His Station and Four AcesCoolidge was an American artist born in 1844 in Antwerp, New York. He worked as a sign painter, druggist, farmer. Although he didn’t have formal art training, he made caricatures for newspapers and oil paintings.
