The Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman created her self portrait Colors as part of a series for the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Kauffman was one of two women who founded the Academy. Her four part series on crucial elements of painting still graces that art institution today. This one sets the best example of …
What’s the meaning of In the Chapel by Alice Bailly?
– Wimples with wings
– Nuns, Angels, Mary, Jesus… and a golden brushstroke
– Christianity’s mystery of faith
What’s the story behind the Portrait of Kate Perugini – Daughter of Charles Dickens?
– In mourning? Stunning sophisticate? Both.
– Portrait painter influences her own portrayal
– Losing it all and looking back while starting over
What makes New York Night by Georgia O’Keeffe such a special painting?
– Glimmering window panes
– The machine age and Precisionism
– An avant-garde squad
How did the 1977 painting Marilyn (Vanitas) help pioneer Superrealism/Photorealism?
– Time, death, and masks
– Candle in the Wind 1973 & 1977
– A real woman lost long ago
What makes The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo an important painting?
– Aztec hearts bleed for Mexico
– Clothes don’t make the woman
– Feminist protest and divorce