The romantic languor of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the artist who founded the Aesthetic Movement in the XNUMXth century who opposed the conservatism of Victorian London, the Artists' Briefing dedicated to Giuseppe Stampone and his "intelligent photocopier" and the ABìCinema centered on the letter P like Pier Paolo Pasolini, are the cover stories of this weekend by FIRST Art, the FIRSTonline site on the world and the art market and more generally on current culture.
The works of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, focused on the female figure, take us back to a distant world but full of artistic charm. Above all sublime is the painting "The favorite poet" which puts two women in the foreground: the first with an abandoned body and a gaze that goes beyond the observer and the second bent over to read the long parchment of the favorite poet with love phrases written for feed the seduction.
Pier Paolo Pasolini, with his unforgettable "Accattone", "Mamma Roma", "The Gospel according to Matthew" and other great films, is instead the inevitable protagonist of the letter P of ABiCinema, the handbook of the big screen which examines a letter of the alphabet at a time and dig into all things cinematic. P stands for Pasolini but also for film and, why not, for Roman Polansky and Sidney Pollack.
The artists' portfolio, which tells the story and profile of emerging Italian artists and also their market quotation, is dedicated this time to the forty-year-old Giuseppe Stampone, who lives and works between Rome and Brussels, and whose artistic research represents the synthesis and the formation of the concept of “Global Education”.
This and much more can be read over the weekend on FIRST Arte, whose journalistic reports will remain available for free throughout the summer.
Also not to be overlooked is the exhibition of Picasso's paintings at the Tata Modern in London and the exhibition of Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock at the Vittoriano in Rome.