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9 Secrets From Paintings Found in Strange Places
Museums are where masterpieces are supposed to end up. Their journeys there can be much stranger. Important paintings have resurfaced above…
9 Secrets From Hermès
Few companies have spent nearly two centuries convincing people that less can be more. Hermès is famous for luxury handbags, silk…
9 Secrets from Goyard
Most luxury brands want to be seen everywhere. Goyard built its reputation by doing almost the opposite. For more than a…
9 Secrets of Artists Who Regretted Their Greatest Works
Artists are supposed to want immortality. The trouble begins when one image becomes immortal before they do. Not everyone here literally…
9 Secrets From Forgotten Art Colonies
Long before creative retreats became a business model, artists were already escaping cities, renting cheap rooms, sharing meals, arguing about aesthetics,…
9 Secrets From Artists Who Were Also Sailors
Plenty of artists painted the sea. A smaller and more interesting group actually knew what it felt like to work on…
9 Secrets From John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse painted beautiful women, doomed lovers, sorceresses, flowers, mirrors, water, and enough flowing fabric to supply a small costume…
9 Secrets From Van Gogh’s Relationship With Theo
Vincent van Gogh is usually presented as the ultimate solitary artist: difficult, impoverished, misunderstood, working furiously while the world ignored him.…
9 Secrets Artists Used to Paint Happiness
Happiness is surprisingly difficult to paint. Sadness often comes with obvious visual shortcuts: dark colors, storms, isolation, shadows. Happiness is more…
9 Secrets of the Most Mysterious Women in Art
Some of the most unforgettable women in art are people we barely know. A smile refuses to explain itself. A woman…
9 Secrets Artists Used to Create a Sense of Mystery
Mystery in art rarely comes from making everything confusing. More often, it comes from giving the viewer almost enough information. A…
9 Secrets Great Artists Understood About Color
Great artists rarely treated color as a matter of simply choosing attractive hues. They used it to control attention, create depth,…