The levels dance on the canvas and want to pour themselves entirely into the foreground. They have lifted the world up toward us and are about to fall. It almost seems like a sketch, a painterly note. The world moves as if in an...
Per saperne di piùA society is born, it has been said, that is defined as fast. Indeed, it is fast, if one considers how much acceleration has occurred in just a few years. Baudelaire’s *The Painter of Modern Life* dates from 1863. It is...
Per saperne di piùIn my view, this painting is a religious work. *A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte*, in terms of technique, is not irrelevant here. In Seurat, small touches of color construct reality. Now, in this case, that...
Per saperne di piùFrom Monet we have above all the theme of passing time. That is how it is usually thought of. Of course, what is meant is the development of the theme. As many point out, this happens not only and not precisely. Monet himself...
Per saperne di piùTwo gazes lost in the void. Not in cell phones. Not on the street. Not even in daydreams, that place full of conscious distraction. Lost in a void that has substance and alters the surrounding reality. Let’s get to the point:...
Per saperne di piùArcheologia Domestica Vol. 1 presents Silvia Giambrone’s research through a collection of recent works. These are made with a variety of techniques, from modified ready-mades, to engravings, scans and other reproduction...
Per saperne di piùBaziotes might be a good goalkeeper, the embowed forms could help him fly from one post to the other. His round shapes, fields of colour with light and agile movements would do the trick. The defence line should be strong and...
Per saperne di piùI’d begin by discussing some attitudes in Manet’s practice that still make him relevant today, Olympia might come in handy for this purpose. Manet here wishes to update Titian (just as he will with Goya) bringing him to a...
Per saperne di piùEstablishing the price of an artwork is an enterprise which allows for difference of opinion. We are flooded with documentaries and books, mostly from the US, which illustrate the madness of the contemporary art world: the...
Per saperne di più“Il faut être absolument moderne.”“One must be absolutely modern”A. Rimbaud “Tant fait l’homme qu’à la fin il disparait”“A man does so much that eventually he disappears”R. Queneau The perspective plane moves to the forefront,...
Per saperne di piùWhen it appears, the release of a painting is increasingly less a proof of insecurity and more an enquiry and a necessity. Younger generations are especially fascinated by the search for form, and by the need to understand what...
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