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Anastasiia Kirpalov
Anastasiia is an art historian and curator based in Bucharest, Romania. Previously she worked as a museum assistant, caring for a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Her main research objectives are early-20th-century art and underrepresented artists of that era. She travels frequently and has lived in 8 different countries for the past 28 years.
Education:University of Groningen, 2022MA Art History & Curatorial StudiesExpertise:Articles by Anastasiia Kirpalov
According to Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci’s early life experiences as a child raised by a single mother shaped his art and research.
Pop Art and Surrealism share a number of themes, such as critiquing consumerism, exploring celebrity culture, and questioning social hierarchies.
Land artists create site-specific sculptures and installations far away from urban spaces and leave them to integrate—or disintegrate—in the natural environment.
The Spanish Surrealists responded to the bloody conflict with heartbreaking art, political activism, and even more turmoil within their art movement.
French artist Fernand Léger went from Impressionism and Cubism to abstraction, then returned to traditional figurative art expressed through modernist vocabulary.
The eccentricities of Salvador Dali’s characters were legendary and notorious, and they still present a challenge for both art lovers and professionals.
According to Freud, artists have a unique quality of sublimating their desires into creative fantasies and sharing them with their audience.
Sigmund Freud’s view of the uncanny usually refers to something seemingly familiar yet hiding a hint of unexpected and disturbing secret beneath its surface.