Seydou Keïta opened his first photo studio in Bamako, Mali’s main city in 1948, and very quickly it became highly successful among the Mali’s «highest society». Keïta was not just a simple photographer, but a sort of movie director, as he organised the environment and the models himself, borrowing the posh clothes, hats, accessories etc, […]
Frida Kahlo is “the first woman to turn her body into a manifesto, to exhibit her own femininity in a manner that was direct, explicit and occasionally violent, revolutionising women’s role in art forever”. Her body becomes the means to explore themes such as gender identity, a displayed femininity (a body that becomes both sacrificial […]
Here we are talking about Andy Warhol again! But today we are speaking about a completely different artwork. If you want to see the previous one, check it out here! How many times did you think “I could have done that!” in front of a contemporary work? Well, in this case Andy Warhol is making […]
We are at the end of the #BerlinSeries, and we want to finish it with an artwork whose meaning is our hope for the future to come. In fact, this enormous sculpture (30 metres high) is a symbol of reunification, unity, strength. It represents three men joining in the center, but these men re made […]
This work by the famous german artist Käthe Kollwitz is places inside the Neue Wache (New Guardhouse), a neoclassical building inspired by the Roman Pantheon. The Neue Wache was dedicated to the Unknown Soldier of the World Wars since 1931, more than 100 years after its construction. The hole in the roof is open, it doesn’t […]
The monument for the Holocaust was inaugurated in 2005, much later than the finish of the World War II, and it was designed by the architect Peter Eisenman. As Wikipedia reports, it consists of a 19,000 m2 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m […]
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