This work belongs to the period of Abstract Expressionism, but while Abstract Expressionism was happening in the US, in Europe there was a similar version of it called Art Informel. This movement was the one Carla Accardi joined since the beginning of her career, even though she integrated it with her personal view on art […]
Joan Mitchell is one of the few women artists that got recognized as such during their lives in the mid-20th century. She belongs to the Abstract Expressionism, working in a way that is very similar to Willem de Kooning or Franz Kline. Although being owned by the Centre Pompidou, this work is exhibited now at […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] At the time of this post, July 2018, this work can be seen in the Temples’ Valley in Agrigento, Italy. Agrigento is a wonderful city on the coast of Sicily, where many different ancient temples are still […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] “Strumming my pain with his fingers. Singing my life with his words…” – The Fugees In the painting Klingsors Garten one can palpably see the skinning of the painted canvas. The hot lead that was poured on […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] On Kawara was one of the most popular conceptual artists, and his Today Series, made of single Date Paintings, are exhibited all around the world. A single piece of the series is composed by a painting (the […]
Here is when artificial and natural come together, when humans and landscape are one only thing, when art and Earth are not distinguishable anymore: Land Art. Land Art has been called in many different ways, such as Earth Art, Earth Works, Environmental Art, but from here on we will refer to it just as Land […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] Olafur Eliasson is an artist who is directing the Studio Olafur Eliasson, a centre of architectural research that is useful for the artist to create oustanding works of art. An example of what I just said is […]
In the Palais de Tokyo in Paris there was a very controversial exhibition until the beginning of May 2018. The main artists involved in the exhibition – called One and the Other – were Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel, but they wanted to include other artists as well as found objects with anonymous creators. I […]
The Fluxus movement is most famous to the people for the outstanding presence of Yoko Ono, known for her art and for her relationship with John Lennon. But Fluxus is much more, and it was the inspiration for many artists that came after it. Artistic and historical backgroud Fluxus was an art movement born in […]
Have you ever heard of Arte Povera? Have you ever wondered why it is not translated from Italian (it literally means “poor art”)? You will discover everything in the following paragraphs! Historical and artistic background The Arte Povera movement was born in Italy (you didn’t guess this, did you!) in 1967. Why do we have […]
Try to find the piece! Immediately surprising are the black and white details that frame the central plane of the painting. Can they be detected in the central coloured field? Is it a puzzle or are they maybe letters from an imagined alphabet that constitute a visual phrase in the middle? The CoBrA movement (created […]
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Can you stare at these work for more than 3 seconds? If you can do it without any problem, you are one in a million!
The aim of these artists was exactly to destabilize you, so accept the challenge and read the article!
This work by Louise Bourgeois is exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and when I saw it I felt like a punch in my stomach. The installation is formed by a circular room with two doors from which the visitor can look inside. In the room there are various elements: an iron bed, two […]
Naoshima is an island highly evaluated as an “art island”. In fact, Naoshima is full of artworks, site-specific installations and museums of contemporary art. The Benesse House Museum is a project of one of the most important architect in Japan and in all over the world: Tadao Ando. He designed also the Chichu Art Museum, […]
Yesterday we talked about Minimal Art, and we mentioned Barnett Newman. He wasn’t just part of Minimalists, but also of the Colorfield movement and of the Abstract Expressionism. This work is exhibited permanently at the MoMA, New York, and the label says: Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Newman’s largest painting at the time of its completion, is […]
If you look at this painting in real life, and from close enough, it will seem completely abstract to you. The title give an initial hint, but you see the portrait only from far or from the lens of a camera. The painting is made with a very think layer of paint, mostly of dark […]
It may seem a little strange to find a painting by Giorgio De Chirico in this website, since one of our aims is to share art from the 50s on, and De Chirico is considered to be more modern than contemporary nowadays. Very few know, though, that De Chirico continued painting until his death, in […]
This artwork belongs to the collection of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin, and it is a drawing. The particularity of this drawing is that the artist drew the frame leaving the inside of the work empty. This inversion of functions of the different parts of a painting (or a drawing in this case) suggests that […]
This wall painting is a commission realized by Richard Jackson for the Orangerie in Paris. The Orangerie has initiated a dialogue between what it is most famous for (Monet’s Waterlilies) and contemporary art, involving different artists and different works. We already spoke about the beautiful work by Joan Mitchell, you can read the article here: […]
Pudor is a video-performance in which Luiza Prado, a Brazilian artist, lays naked on the floor, while people put white rosaries on her, covering her private parts. That is a symbol of how the religious community she was raised in was oppressing her sexuality, and was causing and not healing her vaginismus (a condition that […]
In the context of Lima In-Quieta, an exhibition that just happened in Paris about the Peruvian culture and specifically the city of Lima, Lizi Sánchez presented the works titled Liberación. The sculptures, made of rubber sheets cut-outs, take inspiration from the homonym poem by Magda Portal, a Peruvian poet concentrated mostly on feminism and social […]
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