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Set of Votive Slips Illustrated with Spooky Objects

Janine Mae Dela Cueva

Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese W...

Asia Society Texas Center, located in the Museum District of Houston, Texas, is currently showcasing Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints. This collection is a series of...

Hilma af Klint

Emma Livingston

Under the Radar, Ahead of Her Time: the Mysteri...

Af Klint was a future-thinking woman who created over 1,300 abstract artworks in 1906. This was well before “abstract” art was coined by Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich. Af Klint created...

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Taylor Hunt

Beauty in the Mundane: r/AccidentalArtGallery

These photographs have one thing in common: they are unstaged, accidental instances of remarkable artistic quality in otherwise uneventful environments.

The Kiss

Janine Mae Dela Cueva

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

When viewing the painting, the two figures are evidently sharing an intimate moment, like a photograph, frozen in time. However, it is quite ironic that Klimt created a painting of...

The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger. Google Art Project

Taylor Hunt

Hans Holbein the Younger: More Than Just a Port...

Hans Holbein the Younger was taught the art of portraiture by his father, Hans Holbein the Elder. Hans Holbein the Younger became a member of the Basel artist guild in...

rom a book of hours from France, 15th century , beinecke rare book & manuscript library via Real Life Elsewhere

Madelyn Kenney

Mid-Evil Cats: Why Dark Age Artists Made Them S...

Why medieval artists painted cats so oddly: from dark superstitions to moral lessons, these bizarre felines reveal much about medieval beliefs.

Ellsworth Kelly

Lily Frye

Ellsworth Kelly: the Complexity of Simple Art

Ellsworth Kelly was a pioneer in abstract art, transcending normalcy and breaking boundaries in the conventions of abstract art. He is famous for bright, bold colors and is one of...

Julius Kronberg, Hypatia, 1889 via Wikimedia Commons

Madelyn Kenney

Hypatia’s Forgotten History, and How Raphael Sa...

Hypatia was not just a philosopher who happened to be a woman, she was the most esteemed thinker in all of Alexandria during her time.

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Madelyn Kenney

Artwork Analysis: Francisco de Goya's Black Pai...

Francisco Goya was a painter and printmaker during Spain’s Romanticism and Rococo periods. His most renowned collection, dubbed the Black Paintings, was discovered along the walls of his home after...

Frida Kahlo's red boot

Rosella Parra

Frida Kahlo’s Red Boot

A piece of artwork that isn't discussed enough, however, is Kahlo’s prosthetic leg. Within the last year of her life, she tragically had to amputate her leg, so she wore...