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Mnemosyne Atlas – Warburg

Mnemosyne Atlas – Warburg

19-Jan-2021 | art, history

Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a german art historian and cultural theorist, founder of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in Hamburg which was later moved to the Warburg Institute in London.At the heart of his research was the legacy of...
Series: Female Artists

Series: Female Artists

2-Oct-2020 | art, female artists, female portraits, herstory

Sonia Boyce (born 1962)In the female artists series this week we take a look at two earlier pieces by Sonia Boyce, a British Afro-Caribbean artist.She will be representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2022 and the first black woman to do so.Sonia Dawn Boyce’s work...
Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portrait

7-Sep-2020 | art, female portraits, herstory

Every week a female portraitWe continue with our series, part five: Self Portrait, 1939 by Pan Yuliang.Pan Yuliang 潘玉良 (born on June 14, 1895) was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. Born in Yangzhou, worked in...
Ways of Seeing – John Berger

Ways of Seeing – John Berger

11-Jun-2020 | art, feminism

Visual representations are never neutral “The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.””Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil...
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

29-May-2020 | art

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group “Die Brücke” (“The Bridge”), a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century...