Dose of Art #160: Pablo Picasso – Pierrot (1918)
Most of us know only the famous Picasso paintings; Guernica, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, The Weeping Woman for example. But over […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
Most of us know only the famous Picasso paintings; Guernica, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, The Weeping Woman for example. But over […]
For some reason, yesterdays painting Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Eugène Delacroix inspired other painters to make their own version […]
The Prado (where you can find this painting) describes it as follows: “This scene of a young man blowing on […]
Goya made a series of paintings for the four seasons. For winter he chose a snowstorm. Nothing romantic about it; […]
Painted in the same year as yesterdays painting the subject couldn’t be more different. Instead of a biblical scene, this […]
Trompe-l’œil is French for ‘deceiving the eye’, and that is exactly what Pere Borrell del Caso tries to do. […]
Picasso made a series of paintings on the theme of The Weeping Woman and this is the final one. He […]
When Dali painted this picture, Spain was in Civil War between the Republicans and the Nationalists. The latter won when […]
This another of Goya’s murals he painted in his house Quinta del Sordo that was transferred to canvas. The painting […]
Ixion was a king of the Lapiths who murdered his father-in-law by pushing him into a bed of burning coals […]