The Art Historian

In our Art Historian section, we highlight masters who have inspired generations and provide deep dives into selected works to uncover their context and creative techniques.

Standing between the fields of Normandy and the factories of Paris, Fernand Léger transformed the machinery of modern life into art that still feels urgent today.

Fernand Léger: Industrial Modernism and Tubist Visions

Standing between the fields of Normandy and the factories of Paris, Fernand Léger transformed the machinery of modern life into art that still feels urgent today.

The Eternal Embrace of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss

Some artworks command attention with grandeur, while others captivate through quiet intensity. Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, created between...

The Emotional Cosmos of Van Gogh's The Starry Night

To experience The Starry Night is to step inside Van Gogh’s mind at its most vulnerable and visionary. Painted from the confines of an asylum, this swirling nightscape is more than a view—it’s a vivid outpouring of emotion, where every star burns with longing and every brushstroke vibrates with unrest.

Understanding the Horror Behind Picasso’s Guernica

Guernica is not a comfortable painting. It doesn’t soothe or resolve. But it endures—because it tells the truth about what war takes from us.

The Timeless Echo of Edvard Munch’s The Scream

Few paintings have been as widely reproduced or parodied as The Scream. It appears in cartoons, Halloween costumes, emojis, even marketing campaigns. It has been stolen—twice. And yet, despite this cultural overexposure, the emotions conveyed in the painting resonate across time and cultures, making it a timeless reflection of the human condition.

Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory: Time, Space, and Surrealism

Few paintings are as instantly recognisable—or as deeply surreal—as Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory. Created in 1931, this dreamlike landscape of melting clocks and barren cliffs bends the rules of time and space, challenging our perceptions of reality.