Art historian and culture writer exploring the intersections of creativity, history, and power. Lover of lost narratives, museum cafés, and the quiet brilliance of brushstrokes.
Know Your Artist
Caravaggio revolutionised painting with raw realism and dramatic light, but his life was marked by brawls, exile, and scandal. His turbulent story reveals how conflict and genius collided to produce some of art’s greatest masterpieces.
Know Your Artist
From Picasso’s Cubist revolution to Ai Weiwei’s political provocations, explore the remarkable lives and works of the past century’s most influential artists, whose creativity reshaped art, culture, and the way we see the world.
Art History
Discover three transformative art movements that shaped visual culture. From Romantic emotion to Abstract Expressionist innovation and Surrealist unconscious exploration, understand how artists responded to historical upheavals through revolutionary expression.
Features
Explore how Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary theories on the unconscious mind shaped art movements from Surrealism to contemporary practice, revealing the hidden layers behind creativity and the symbolic language of dreams, desire, and conflict.
Art History
Architecture and visual art have shared a rich, evolving dialogue across history. From Gothic cathedrals to digital installations, this article explores how the two disciplines influence, challenge, and inspire one another in contemporary culture.
Art History
Romantic myth of the solitary genius falls apart when we examine bustling Renaissance and Baroque studios. Uncover how Leonardo, Raphael and Titian led collaborative ateliers, training apprentices who shaped the great masterpieces we revere today.
Know Your Artist
Amedeo Modigliani’s image as a doomed bohemian has fascinated generations—but how much of his so-called tragic life is rooted in fact, and how much has been cleverly spun by the art market?
Art History
Edvard Munch’s 'The Scream' captures more than personal agony—it channels the existential dread of modern life. But was Munch really screaming? Or was he simply listening to the world cry out?
Features
From Neolithic shell necklaces to modern NFTs, collecting reflects our search for identity, order and emotional resonance. Art, uniquely, transforms scarce matter into priceless cultural and personal narratives, revealing profound psychological drives, yearning and belonging.
Art Education
From Platonic ideals to postmodern deconstruction, artistic practice has long been guided by philosophical enquiry. This exploration uncovers how concepts of beauty, ethics and perception have informed visual art across eras, from antiquity to today.
Know Your Artist
In Renaissance Italy’s crucible of creativity, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo clashed in a battle of artistic philosophies—science versus spirituality, observation versus abstraction—each driven by ambition and genius to redefine the boundaries of Western art.
Art History
Far from starving, many artists in history thrived under powerful patrons—from Renaissance popes to wealthy merchants. This article explores how wealth, influence, and ambition shaped the careers of art’s greatest names.