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 […]
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1965 / 1 – ∞, ROMAN OPALKA, 1965-2011
Today it’s time to speak about an artist I am in love with: Roman Opalka. He was a French-Polish artist who worked between France and Venice. All his artistic production consists in one single work, the one we are talking about today. The fact is that this work, named 1965 / 1 – ∞, is made […]
ARCHISPONGE (RE 11), YVES KLEIN, 1960
Yves Klein was one of the most celebrated contemporary artists, and painting was almost an obsession for him. He painted a series called Relief Eponges, in which he used actual sponges as a material for his paintings. This is, as the title suggests, the artwork he thought could be the most evocative and representative of […]