HELEA Gallery·Nov 5Standing Still in Front of a Painting: A Ten-Minute ExperimentIn a museum, we spend about twenty seconds in front of a single painting. That’s less time than it takes to pick a sticker in a messaging…
HELEA Gallery·Nov 3The Art of Pleasing Everyone: What Lies Behind Kitsch in PaintingThe word ‘kitsch’ first appeared in Munich in the second half of the nineteenth century, and over the following century and a half it has…
HELEA Gallery·Oct 27The Secret Language of Painters: Hidden Details Most Viewers MissA mirror, a skull, a snuffed-out candle — in old paintings, even the smallest things can matter. What artists concealed in plain sight, and…
HELEA Gallery·Oct 12Why the Impressionists Painted Ugly PlacesRailway stations, factory chimneys, smoky embankments, drab suburbs — the Impressionists stubbornly chose subjects deemed unfit for…
HELEA Gallery·Oct 9The Alchemy of the Ordinary: How Plain Jugs, Glass and Fruit on Canvas Became High ArtFor centuries the academies kept this genre at the very bottom of the hierarchy — yet it turned out to be a territory of absolute painterly…
