(Part I): Clos Normand Article by Mies Šmes Who could be more fair to judge Claude Monet’s oeuvre than the French artist himself? Acknowledged by the father of Impressionism as his ‘most beautiful masterpiece’, the…
Article by Mies Šmes Aurore Dupin did not behave as other women did. She liked to wander through the Parisian salons dressed like a man, smoking cigars and since her divorce, she had taken several…
Article by Mies Šmes Not much is left from Claude Monet’s first wife, Camille Doncieux: just one photograph, official French documents and the paintings that have immortalized her. After her premature death at only 32…
Article by J. Danilo Garcés Rodríguez I thought about this one a lot. When so much has already been said, when almost every corner and detail of a subject has already been study so thoroughly…
Article by Mies Šmes Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was born in Valencia in 1863, at the time in which Impressionism was starting to thrive in France. As his parents died from cholera when…
Article bby Willie Jimenez This article is about the years I spent traveling across Europe while in the Navy and how that experience effected me and my art. How I picked up photography and got…
Article by J. Danilo Garcés It’s the end of the 19th century and you’re walking with no destination through the city of Paris, electricity is something new and the street lamps no longer illuminate the…
Article by Adrian Zain Raphael, starting in June 1511 would begin to work on one of his most famous and revolutionary paintings, the Portrait of Pope Julius II, this painting would be unlike any other…
Article by Willie Jimenez Digitally coloring rough sketches from the old masters of the renaissance What I learned and How it changed my life. THE BEGINNING I was a comic book colorist for years when…
Article by Jimena Escoto The nineteenth century was a period of constant change, revolutions, wars, endings and new beginnings. These turbulent times affected artists who began to express themselves in more than one way. Indeed,…
