Also this year, from July 25th to September 1st, Beyreuth, a small town in Bavaria, is a point of reference for music lovers: singers, musicians, orchestra conductors mingle with the crowd that has come for the Wagnerian Music Festival
Isidora Duncan, was ostracized in Boston, booed in St. Louis, hailed in Paris, idolized in Monaco. She was an American without a country, the first of the hippies, a flower child, whose flaming red hair and violet eyes…
The Bauhaus taught a principle of essentiality, i.e. "starting from scratch". Germany too had come out destroyed by the war, rubble and rubble. For young people, starting over from scratch meant "recreating the world".
How better can we describe Henri Rousseau, the inglorious soldier painter who served in the infantry regiment for 4 years (1864 1868) and in the following twenty years exercised the role of civil servant? Well, telling about him
“It was the spring of 1510 when a new, elusive, melancholy and otherworldly landscape appears in a splendid Tuscan countryside which now makes the deep chords of our soul vibrate, while all the rest is silence.” Botticelli, although endowed with intellectual abilities,…
Critics have always reproached this hare for something. The ears are too long, but it must be recognized that those extra centimeters give the hare an air of sympathy, and make it appear alive, real and lively to the point that it seems to listen to us.…
Anna Pavlova, born in St. Petersburg in 1881 was the greatest ballerina of all time, a legend capable of transcending the beauty of dance and her character. Hers was a poor peasant family and…
His works appear to us in flickering bodies of tongues of fire. A portrait artist with a violent brushstroke who has never betrayed his desire to be a nomad for life.
Egon Schiele was an artist with an unconventional and narcissistic personality. Most of his works are characterized by a dark and visionary aspect, obsessively focused on mainly erotic themes. He favored young models without shame and preferably with a…
Matisse loved the freedom of his thoughts, he had never been imprisoned for money or for convenience, he knew well that if he hadn't listened to his heart he would have painted the gray of an unhappy life.
Everything can change in our demoralized world, except the heart, the love of man and his efforts to know the "divine" - Chagall. This is the story of Chagall, of how the artist used painting to tell about himself and where…
A voice, a life for opera, that of Maria Callas, all summed up in a life that goes beyond a fairy tale.
For about 60 years Joseph Mallord William Turner lived all daylight hours with brush and pencil in hand. He executed 25.000 works, including drawings, engravings, watercolours. When he died in 1851 he left £140 in securities, houses in London…
Born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, whose real name is Robert Zimmermann, he spent his childhood in Hibbing, a mining town about a hundred kilometers from the border with Canada. His father, an appliance dealer, gave the…
His name is Alfred Hitchcock and he is the director who has "manufactured" the most beautiful films that keep you in suspense. When he concocted a film, for Hitchcock, the weeks were all made up of working days, without breaks and with the…
A life surrounded by legends, with male and female loves and a cynical and uninhibited character towards eternal concepts of fidelity or jealousy. A set of forms and attitudes that made her a mythical figure.
In a Victorian London, among the bourgeoisie who loved the forms of landscape painting of English artists influenced by Italian "Canalettian" painting, the new rich preferred to escape from an overly regal conservatism, cultivating a passion for a distant art, full of freshness...
“Christina's World” a 1948 work painted by Andrew Wyeth depicts a young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field. Although she appears in a resting position, her bust, resting on her…
At a time when time escapes us and makes us fragile, our thoughts go to those who work in hospitals to save everyone's life, absolutely everyone. Preferential lanes for the most needy, today more than ever we are from…
A London magazine wrote of him: "Mozart is Europe's greatest prodigy of all time".
In San Miguel Nepantla, 80 km from Mexico City, there is a monument dedicated to a woman who we can define as the first feminist of the New World. It is a bust made in 1951 by the sculptor Arias Méndeze dedicated to…
Finally published the long-awaited biography of Piero Manzoni "An Artist's Life". Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, the book will be presented at the Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market in a three-day event (November 1-3 Los Angeles) focused on the creation…
Every day, in every part of the world, someone buys, sells or collects information on the value of a work of art. This is the story of Georges Wildenstein, the prince of the art dealers of the last century.
Eugène Delacroix, the painter who opened the doors to modern art. Manet, Matisse, Degas, Renoir, Roualt owe much to his example.
Moore's sculpture is something that manages to make even the most timid emotions vibrate, its roundness seems to want to protect from the harshness of life, its voids are nothing more than the spaces where to take refuge from fears, everything…
The Economist questions the genius of the great Leonardo and tries to reduce its importance but does not convince anyone
But what is different about Dutch artists? If we think of Vincent van Gogh who cut off his earlobe or Franz Hals who wept warmly while painting his merry drunkards of him, then also Maurits Cornelis…
Today we will talk about Giorgio Morandi, the painter who was able to translate the art of the twentieth century into a perfect composition of essentialism.
“ I never see a picture in my mind before I start painting it. Each painting is born of itself under the brush: I discover it only on the canvas".
John Constable was born on 11 June 1776 at East Bergholt in the Dedham Valley. Son of a wheat merchant and owner of a mill, who wanted his son to become a priest, but it was not so because John…
I don't think you've really LIVED until you've read The Marble Faun,” Little Edie Beale distinctively proclaimed in the 1975 cult documentary Gray Gardens.
“Sometimes I wonder if Zelda and I are real people or are we characters in one of my novels,” observed The Writer as he began to have success.
It was David Douglas Duncan himself who introduced a new and wonderful technique into photography through the "lens" capable of transforming every image into a shocking picture.
This weekend they take you into a world where artistic life takes shape within a landscape, and it is there that the illusion seems to disappear and the desire to escape from bourgeois interiors is strong; we refer to the typical…
Today, July 30, the literary world celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of English author Emily Brontë. Born on 30 July in Thornton, Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights, Brontë's only novel, was published a year before her untimely death in 1848.
At the end of this July, the literary world celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of English author Emily Brontë. Born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, Brontë's only novel Wuthering Heights was published a year before her untimely…
An artist, a man, a bohemian, in the best romantic tradition. Amedeo Modigliani was simply possessed by the frenzy of living his short life in an intense, pure and passionate way like his art.
And what about the diver in a diving suit leaning against the balustrade on the first floor? An intimidating message? Not exactly, rather a welcome to visitors who will only find surprises and be dazed.
Sculptor, painter, architect and theater director, extroverted and sociable man with a success in private life equal to that in the artistic field.
Also called the "Raphael of flowers", Redoutè is the most sought after watercolor artist ever. His works are kept in museums, libraries, palaces and above all loved by collectors from all over the world, willing to spend any amount…
An art that finds its maximum expression and concludes it, under the Qing dynasty and then transforms itself into the creation of advertising posters and exclusively political propaganda.
His art, which carried the shelves of a supermarket inside a museum or an exhibition, was such a provocation that, according to one of the greatest exponents of Pop Art, art had to be "consumed" like any product.
In 1967 the cover of a "vinyl" entitled Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), showed - with a photomontage - a crowd gathered around a grave, there was: Edgar Allan Poe , Lawrence…
Edvard Munch to portray the psyche of the human being painted the figures staring into space; he recreated the moods immersed in the storm using bright reds, “poisonous” greens, mystical blues and black, colors with which…
