Modern art history

  • Water Lilies

    ByDominik Szobak

    Here is a number that might stop you mid-scroll: Claude Monet painted roughly 250 versions of Water Lilies — and the 1906 canvas now hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago is widely considered one of the most breathtaking of them all, created at a moment when Monet was pushing paint further from reality than…

  • The Starry Night

    ByDominik Szobak

    Most people don’t realize that when Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889, he was doing so from the confines of a psychiatric asylum — and that the tranquil, swirling village below those famous heavens never actually existed. Quick Facts Artist: Vincent van Gogh Year: 1889 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 73.7…