Meeting Benches World art in all forms
MICHAIL ALEKSANDROVIK VRUBEL (1856/1910), RUSSIAN PAINTER – The innovator by nature, the painter that rejected tradition
IN THE STRANGE LABYRINTH THAT CONSTITUTES ART – With Jose Manuel Gomez and his horses
JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ 1/4 – For him, the knowledge it’s the only formula to grow in the strange labyrinth that constitutes art. He was born in a small rural town in Spain in 1940. At the age of 17, he moved to the city of Cordoba, to pursue his interest in the arts. In 1964, he visited Paris, expanded his …
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THE IMAGINARY, BEHIND THE APPARENT QUIET OF REALITY – Max Ernst, creative living on the borders of irrationality
MAX ERNST 1/4 – It is considered one of the greatest exponents of surrealism. All his life, he escapes to the conventions and rules, too restrictive for his unlimited brilliance. His works are densely symbolic repertoire of dream images, which made him famous all over the world. He gives a face to the unconscious and the irrational, observing a submerged …
Read More »MAX ERNST (1891/1976), GERMAN PAINTER – When creativity comes into artistically unexplored territories
AROUND THE GREAT EPIC OF MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA – Raja Ravi Varma: traveling throughout India, in search of subjects
RAJA RAVI VARMA 1/4 – Most of his paintings, include pictures of mythological characters, from the epics and tales from religious texts and manuscripts. He was a renowned Indian painter, who greatly influenced the future generations of Indian painters. He is one of the few painters who have managed to accomplish a unison of the Indian traditions with the techniques …
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IF THE SKAY WILL GIVE ME JUST A FEW MORE YEARS – Katsushika Hokusai: the thirty-six faces of Mount Fuji
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1/4 – He had a long career, but he produced most of his important work after age of 60. He began painting around the age of six, perhaps learning from his father. Born in Tokyo, he is best known as author of the woodblock print series thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. He was a Japanese artist of the …
Read More »KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760/1849), JAPANESE PAINTER – The long creative season of man with many names
TECHNIQUES WHICH USE DARK SHADOWS – Michelangelo Merisi, alias Caravaggio
CARAVAGGIO / MICHELANGELO MERISI 1/4 – In Rome, in 2010, an exhibition of his work which marked the 400th anniversary of his death attracted more than 580,000 visitors. His career, was short-lived. He killed a man during a brawl and fled Rome. He died not long after, on July, 1610. He was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy, around 1571, …
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