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9 Secrets Artists Use to Create Drama
Drama in art doesn’t require a battle, a storm, or someone collapsing onto a velvet chaise. Often it comes from much…
9 Secrets from Muses Who Changed Art History
Art history often celebrates painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects. But many important creative breakthroughs emerged from a different kind of figure:…
9 Secrets from Coco Chanel
Few designers changed everyday life as dramatically as Coco Chanel. Before her rise, fashionable women were often expected to wear restrictive…
9 Secrets From Milton Glaser
Few designers shaped modern visual culture as quietly and completely as Milton Glaser. Even people who have never heard his name…
9 Secrets of Dragons in Art
Dragons have appeared in art for thousands of years, but they have never meant just one thing. Depending on the culture,…
9 Secrets From Artists Who Painted Fast
Painting fast can sound like a shortcut. For many great artists, it was the opposite. Speed demanded preparation, confidence, sharp observation,…
9 Secrets of Artists Who Painted Their Wives
Some artists spent their careers searching for the perfect subject. Others found it sitting across the breakfast table. From the Renaissance…
9 Secrets of Alphonse Mucha’s Paris Years
When people think of Art Nouveau, they often picture flowing hair, decorative borders, elegant women, and elaborate posters. Much of that…
9 Secrets From Great Artists Who Could Not Get Along
Art history is full of friendships, collaborations, and generous exchanges of ideas. It is also full of insults, jealousy, competition, lawsuits,…
9 Artists Who Fell in Love With the Wrong Person
Artists have a remarkable talent for falling in love with people who are unavailable, destructive, married, manipulative, incompatible—or simply terrible for…
9 Secrets Artists Use to Create Drama
Drama in art doesn’t require a battle, a storm, or someone collapsing onto a velvet chaise. Often it comes from much…
9 Secrets Behind Art’s Greatest Love Triangles
Art history has plenty of triangles: compositional triangles, perspective triangles—and the much messier kind involving three people. Some produced paintings. Others…