Curious Muse

🧐 What does it mean to say that God is dead, or that Christian morality is ‘Slave Morality’? How does Nietzsche think we should live, and think, differently? What is the Übermensch, the will to power...

27 Nov 20214min

Art Nouveau was a highly decorative art movement started by the new middle-class, which established itself in cities throughout Europe and the United States at the turn of the century. It was a genui...

12 Nov 20217min

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most iconic paintings ever created. There is no debating that. In this single work, da Vinci combined all of his masterful technique and skill. There...

31 Okt 20215min

The early 20th-century movement called FAUVISM started in 1905 in France and lasted for just a couple of years. The best-known fauvist art was created by three amazing artists: Henri Matisse, Andre De...

15 Okt 20214min

You have surely heard these names - Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne… Their masterpieces represent the art movement that radically transformed the world - and greatly influenced the art t...

1 Okt 20216min

When you think of art in the 1800s you might imagine grand historical subjects, mythological scenes, and traditional themes, lots of them! Well, that’s what art used to be before impressionists change...

19 Sep 20217min

What comes to your mind when you think of the 1920s? For most people, the 1920s conjures up images of jazz, flappers, Old Hollywood, the Great Gatsby, and the Chrysler Building in New York City. It wa...

3 Sep 20219min

What is Symbolism? Who were the artists who painted symbolist paintings? What was Paul Gauguin searching for when he traveled to Tahiti? And what is Edvard Munch telling us with his famous painting Th...

21 Aug 20219min