Category: Painting
  • Park Seo-Bo x Louis Vuitton

    South Korea-born painter Park Seo-Bo’s (1931–2023) collaboration with Louis Vuitton has once again brought the seminal figure to the art and fashion worlds’ attention.

  • The Barbizon School: Masters of French Rural Life

    The Barbizon School, an artistic movement that emerged in the 1820s and shared ties with Romanticism, was rooted in a succession of landscape painter colonies established around Barbizon, France. These artists sought to paint en plein air, particularly in the nearby Forest of Fontainebleau. This forest, located just outside Paris, provided a refreshing escape for…

  • Sciences in the Dutch Golden Age: A Study of Two Works by Johannes Vermeer

    I recently contributed to my university’s Dutch student-run publication, so here is an article focusing on the Dutch Golden Age as depicted in the paintings of Vermeer. From the 16th century onward, the religious world began to experience profound upheavals with the advent of the Reformation. This period saw the rise of sceptical and even…