Meeting Benches World art in all forms
MARIA’ FORTUNY I MARSAL, SPANISH PAINTER – the charm of the African light
THE COLORS OF THE EXOTICISM – Marià Fortuny i Marsal: the short flight of Oriental lights
MARIA’ FORTUNY I MARSAL 1/6 – He was born in a June day in Catalonia. He has twelve years of age when he is assigned to the protection of his grandfather, who encourages the artistic abilities of the boy. In Barcelona, he gets a scholarship to the School of Fine Arts, with a chance to complete in Rome on his …
Read More »JAMES ENSOR (1860/1949), BELGIAN PAINTER– The language of harsh colors, under the influence of Flemish naturalism
WHEN PAINTING BECAME COLORED FACES SHOW – The many faces of James Ensor
JAMES ENSOR 1/6 – The man who is born in the spring and dies in the autumn, the painter who at age 21 he created his first solo exhibition. A creative experience (still lifes, portraits, interiors bourgeois melancholy, landscapes), who was born with dark period, where the colors are deep and dark, with light that vibrates under the influence of …
Read More »YVES TANGUY (1900/1955), FRENCH PAINTER – A style of painting without a name, without a prison that encloses it
I CANNOT GIVE A DEFINITION TO WHAT I PAINT – Yves Tanguy: spontaneous landscapes with no preconceived ideas
YVES TANGUY 1/6 – He was born and died in January, wrapped in the winters of Paris and Woodbury. In 1924, the surrealism enters his life, reading the magazine “The Surrealist Revolution.” At the age of 28, he exhibited his paintings at the Galerie Au Sacre du Printemps in Paris (with Arp, Ernst and Masson, Miró and Picasso). Despite his …
Read More »MAX ERNST (1891/1976), GERMAN PAINTER – The Surrealist of the irrational depths
THE UNPREDICTABLE MYSTERIES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS – Max Ernst, the creative able to give voice and face to the nuances of the invisible psychic
MAX ERNST 1/6 – Maximilien was born in Germany in an April day. He studied philosophy, history of art and psychiatry, but it is starting to draw, he discovered his creative vocation. Already at age 22 he exhibited his first paintings in Berlin, knowing Apollinaire and Delaunay. MAX ERNST 2/6 – A strong advocate of the artistic avant-garde, its onset …
Read More »UNREAL REALISM – When the supernatural comes true: with Leonor Fini, at the limits of the artistic creative world
LEONOR FINI (1907/1996), ARGENTINE / ITALIAN PAINTER – An eccentric woman, star of European Surrealism
LEONOR FINI 1/6 – Born woman, in Argentina, in a summer day. Growing increasingly impatient with the conventions and fascinated by the new, devoting her life to the theater, travel and painting, but also loving – always – so desecrating. Trivially die in Paris (because of flu complications), in the heart of winter. LEONOR FINI 2/6 – Growing dispute between …
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