Category: Meet the artist
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Francesco Hayez: a symbol of Italy’s unity.
If I were to ask you to name an italian painter, I bet most of you would answer with names such those of Michelangelo, Raffaello, Donatello or Leonardo. The problem is, none of this painters really worked and spent most of his life in the city of Milan. Not a lot of worldwide famous painters…
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Showtime at the Apocalypse: about David LaChapelle’s photography
It’s the early 2000s and you’re a young employee living in New York City. You’re rushing along Times Square to the next appointment: your eyes would probably be captured by the bright and dynamic advertisements, dubbed by car horns, by mechanical excavator sounds and by the chattering of new yorkers. Later on in the day,…
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Sonia Delaunay: the artist of colours
Walking around the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris you will suddenly be enchanted by the bright and vivid colours of the artwork “Le Bal Bullier” and you will be transported into its dynamic and alive universe. If you approach the description plate, you will read that the author is Sonia Delaunay, and you will…
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Focus on: Yves Klein
Yves Klein (1928-1962) was a French artist born in Nice belonging to the post-war European background: he was a leader of the French movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960. His parents were both artists themselves: his father was a landscaper and his mother an abstractionist. Yves, besides being an artist, practiced judo at professional…
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MARK ROTHKO | method and consistency
Probably most of you do not know the painting on the left, while almost everyone has already seen a colour fields painting such as the one on the right. Actually, both the artworks are from the same artist: Mark Rothko. They belong to different periods of his life and, although they look so different, they…
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Ren Hang
“We were born nude; I just photographed things in their more natural conditions” Ren Hang has focused his photographic activity on the most explicit form of the human body: its nudity. The naked body is portrayed in different settings: in the middle of nowhere, on Beijing’s roofs or in the artist’s home. Models’ poses are…
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MEET THE ARTIST / ROBERTO MARIA LINO
Il lockdown continua, l’assenza prolungata di socialità comincia a sortire effetti negativi. Ci manca ritrovarci, vederci, scoprire assieme nuove forme di arte. Ci manca, soprattutto, passeggiare nelle gallerie, fra le foto, negli atri dei musei immensi e pieni di luce. Ci manca, insomma, fare nuove scoperte e godere del bello del superfluo. Non smettiamo però…
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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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Bertolt Brecht
The fourth wall is a theatre convention in which an invisible, theoretical wall that separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this wall, the theatrical theories assume that the actors act as if they do not see the audience watching them. From the 16th century, the rise of illusional staging practices…
