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Nov 15, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Szymon Jocek |Candy Bedworth |Ruxi Rusu |Nikolina Konjevod
Museum Stories The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in Kleinburg, Ontario, is the largest public art collection in Canada that focuses exclusively on Canadian and Indigenous art. It includes the works of the iconic Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, as well as First Nations, Inuit, and Métis artists, both historical and contemporary.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Zuzanna Stanska |Candy Bedworth |Ruxi Rusu |Szymon Jocek
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Montreal’s largest museum and one of the most prominent in Canada. Its collection consists of an impressive assortment of Canadian and international works, including pieces by such renowned artists as Rembrandt, El Greco, Renoir, Cézanne, and Picasso. Let’s look at 10 highlights that you can see when visiting the museum. The Museum’s encyclopedic collection, unique in the country, comprises 41,000 works from antiquity to the present day.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Louisa Mahoney |Emily Snow |Pola Otterstein |Szymon Jocek
Art Travels Asian Art Maqbool Fida Husain’s artwork exudes a timeless quality that bridges the past and the present. His forms honor sacred traditions while also energizing modern life. Husain’s creations craft a narrative that remains pertinent despite the changing times. As a pivotal figure, he was instrumental in bringing India’s independent art to both national and global attention. Born in 1915, M. F.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Szymon Jocek
The Bible is one of the most popular sources of inspiration for artists. Artworks depicting both Old and New Testament stories have been created for centuries. It’s time to test your knowledge of the most famous biblical scenes in art! Do you know the Gospels and Old Testament Books? Guess the biblical scene in our quiz!
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Emily Snow |Louisa Mahoney |Pola Otterstein |Szymon Jocek
European Art Architecture May Morris (1862–1938) once described herself as a “remarkable woman… though none of you seemed to think so.” These words proved painfully prophetic, as Morris has since been overshadowed by her father’s more famous legacy. May Morris’ innovative embroidery designs, impassioned activism, and inspired record-keeping made her an unsung heroine of the Arts & Crafts movement. She deserves more consideration and much celebration.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Rachel Witte |Candy Bedworth |Ruxi Rusu |Szymon Jocek
Art State of Mind European Art Museum Stories The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, is home to the second-largest collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), the first being his namesake museum in Amsterdam. This fact poses a question—why does the Kröller-Müller museum have so many works by Van Gogh?
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Candy Bedworth |Ruxi Rusu |Szymon Jocek |Nikolina Konjevod
European Art Bizarre Vienna, Austria is currently the unlikely location of a David and Goliath-scale battle, where a European museum is taking on a global social media giant. Let’s take a look at this latest case of art censorship in social media. Fine Art CensorshipThe Leopold Museum houses a unique collection of Austrian art and Modernism. They have the big names like Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. But there’s a problem, according to media giant Meta.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Louisa Mahoney |Pola Otterstein |Szymon Jocek |Nikolina Konjevod
Artist Stories European Art Ferdinand Hodler was one of the principal figures of 19th-century Swiss painting. Hodler worked in many styles during his life. Over the course of his career, he painted picturesque landscapes, realist portraits, genre paintings, and invented a style of his own called Parallelism that was inspired by Symbolism. His work had a significant impact on the Swiss artistic sensibility. Let’s take a closer look at this multifaceted painter and his creative life.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Ruxi Rusu |Szymon Jocek |Nikolina Konjevod
On the 14th September 1918, Wilhelm Hansen founded one of the finest collections of Impressionist painting in Europe in his summer house not far from Copenhagen. Yet, just four years later his bank went bankrupt and Hansen was about to lose all that he owned. He made an offer to the Danish state to acquire his entire collection for one million Danish krone. But the state said no…The BeginningsWilhelm Hansen was an insurer, a state advisor, and a great philanthropist.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Szymon Jocek
Sculpture is a type of art often considered secondary to painting, even architecture. This needs to be changed. Test yourself in our quiz on famous sculptures from around the world. Do you know these iconic artworks and the people who made them? Some of the questions might be tricky. Be careful! Who is depicted here in this most iconic of Egyptian sculptures?
