Category: ART UNDER ALL ITS FORMS
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2022 Venice Biennale: Technology and The Metamorphosis of the Body
The 59th International Venice Biennale is held from April 23 to November 27 this year. The title, “The Milk of Dreams”, took its name from a book by Leonora Carrington: a Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and a novelist. The Milk of Dreams is portrayed as a world where nothing is stable, thus constantly in a…
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Italian Inspiration
Italy is a mirror into which Russia looked even during the Soviet period, a Mecca of creative searches for Russian artists. Born in Russia, poets, playwrights and artists often travelled around Italy and drew a lot of inspiration from it. “There is a marvelous land” – this is how Vladimir Benediktov wrote about Italy. Poems…
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Introduction to Russia
Russian ballet Russia is one of the few countries in the world where there is a ballet school, or rather, a choreographic school. Not a part time dancing courses, not a dancing club, but a school where you, as a child obsessed with watching Swan Lake on the Russian TV channels, studies instead of a…
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H O P P E R / Modern Life’s Solitude
Absence of noise, isolation, solitude: no other American artist has more masterfully dissected the monotony and the alienating nature of modern life than Edward Hopper. Although the critically acclaimed painter was modest and did not speak much about his work, it does not just reveal a master of great talent, but it also suggests a…
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B O T T I C E L L I / “Primavera”
One of the most powerful painters of the lyric current was the Florentine Sandro (Alessandro) di Mariano Filipepi (1445-1510), called Botticelli, a nickname meaning “little barrel” that was first applied to his brother. Botticelli may have been trained by a goldsmith, but he transferred to the shop of Filippo Lippi, presumably when the latter was…
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R A P H A E L / ” The School of Athens”
With Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520), known in English simply as Raphael, we are dealing with the model third generation monumental painter. Despite his short life of only thirty-seven years, he left a large body of works from almost every year of his career, so that his total contribution and far-reaching influence can be efficiently gauged. Born…
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Close ties between Russia and Italy
Did you know that Russia and Italy have very close historical connections? Unlike the USA and Italy…
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Arts and Ethics
In the summer of 2013, I was in Manhattan, New York. As a typical tourist in The Big Apple, I visited MoMA ( Museum of Modern Art), and truly I loved the art pieces that were displayed.
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Photography – testimony to an eternal moment
On April the 15th our BSAS association organized an interesting event about photography and some of its aspects that people usually ignore, or of which are not well informed. We invited two external guest, Angela Saltarelli and Roberto Mutti, respectively a lawyer specialized in art law and cultural heritage, and a photographic critic and curator.…
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Bocconi: not just a university… but also a piece of architecture
Every day, hundreds of students pass by our university; but few of them really appreciate the architectural peculiarity of our campus’ buildings. The main building is located at the corner of viale Bligny and via Roentgen. It is home to most of the university’s main events, and, being the largest of the Bocconi buildings, it…
