Natalia Iacobelli

Jan 2, 2025 | dailyartmagazine.com | Natalia Iacobelli

Artist Stories Women Artists An official war artist and the first woman to be made a dame of the British Empire, Laura Knight reached the top of her profession with her captivating compositions, while famously stating: “I paint today.” Immortalized in her works are feelings of nostalgia, sisterhood, and the war efforts of women. A pioneering 20th-century artist in Britain, Knight brought to the fore topics of independence and creativity, through a uniquely female lens.

Dec 1, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Maya Tola |Ania Kaczynska |Natalia Iacobelli

1559 was the year when Pieter Bruegel the Elder dropped the “h” from his surname. The same year he also painted The Fight Between Carnival and Lent. Unlike in the art of many Italian Renaissance masters, Bruegel painted men entangled in the world and subject to it. In The Fight Between Carnival and Lent Bruegel depicted two men playing dice. Most studies omit the position of the dice. Bruegel employed the motif of dice in his other paintings, much like other artists of his time like Hieronymus Bosch.

Nov 24, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Joanna Kaszubowska |Natalia Iacobelli |Errika Gerakiti |Valeria Kumekina

Louise Bourgeois was the artist behind the world-famous spider sculpture—Maman. Her career spanned decades, and her oeuvre often focused on complex and personal themes such as home and family, the body, death, trauma, or the unconscious. Her raw, surreal, and sometimes downright spooky art makes you feel like you’re peeking into the attic of her psyche, dusting off old memories and fears. So, let’s step into the mind of Bourgeois—just be ready for a few twists, turns, and probably a few webs.

Nov 11, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Marta Wiktoria Bryll |Nikolina Konjevod |Natalia Iacobelli |Nicole Ganbold

Design With the unveiling of a new space-themed mural in New York, NASA steps into a new age of its art program. The goal of this relaunch? To inspire a new generation of dreamers to one day settle on the Moon. Thanks to our talk with the NASA Art Program Director Lauren Katz, we learned what’s next for space-inspired art. Read on to explore the vision behind NASA’s new mural.

Sep 29, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Natalia Iacobelli |Errika Gerakiti |Valeria Kumekina |Jimena Escoto

Herstory She wrote letters to kings, was Spain’s first documented woman sculptor, and became the official escultora de cámara, or court sculptor, to Charles II and Philip V. She was a celebrated polychromist of the Spanish Golden Age, reaching extraordinary heights of fame, yet at the time of her death, she was largely forgotten. Today, she is emerging from history as one of Spain’s finest sculptors and a powerful, trailblazing early modern woman. Meet Luisa Roldán.