Meeting Benches World art in all forms
BALTHASAR KLOSSOWSKI DE ROLA (alias BALTHUS) – The human being stripped of its crust of hypocrisy
PAINT SO STRANGE, THE THEATRE OF LIFE – Balthus: paint everything that is hidden in ourselves
BALTHUS 1/6 – He was born and died in February, in France. Paris and Berlin, Bern and Geneva, separation of parents and the mother who falls in love with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He approaches art with drawings that illustrate a story and the Cat Mitsou, but his artistic talent – which starts from classicism – be encouraged, during …
Read More »ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO (1891/1956), RUSSIAN PAINTER – Showing the truth, but at the same time making the drawing clearer
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
