Travel

WITH HEADPHONES IN HEAD – David Bowie at MAMbo of Bologna, until November 13, 2016

A special museum, a structure that allows you to retrace the history of Italian art of the last half century (after World War II to the present), helping you find new ways of art experimentation. The Museum of Modern Art Mambo, is located in Via Don Giovanni Minzoni 14, in the historic center of Bologna. As for the times of …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / OSLO – Nasjonalgalleriet: L’Urlo, di Edvard Munch

He was a Norwegian painter, whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes (built upon some of the tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism). In 1881, Edvard Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Kristiania, where experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism. Never married, he called his paintings his children, and hated to be separated from …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / LOS ANGELES – LACMA, County Museum of Art: The Treachery of Images, by René Magritte

René Magritte was a surrealist artist from Belgium. His reputation became well known for his various witty and thought-provoking images which are categorized as surrealism. Like the other artists and poets associated with the Surrealist movement, he sought to overthrow what he saw as the oppressive rationalism of bourgeois society. For him the painting challenges the correspondence of the image, …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – MOMA, Museum of Modern Art New York: The Treachery of Images, by Salvador Dalì

He was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / VIENNA – Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna: The Kiss (Lovers), by Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. He was born near Vienna, and lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. In 1888, he received the Golden Order of Merit, from Emperor Franz Josef. In …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / NEW YORK – The MoMa Museum, New York: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, by Pablo Picasso

He was a Spanish painter (but also sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright), who spent most of his adult life in France. Pablo Picasso, is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. He showed a passion and a skill for …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES – Modern Art Museum /New York and Hermitage Museum / Saint Petersburg: The Dance, by Henry Matisse

Henri Matisse, a revolutionary and influential artist of the early 20th century (known for the expressive color and form of his Fauvist style). He had a major creative breakthrough in the years 1904-05. A visit to Saint-Tropez in southern France inspired him to paint bright, light-dappled canvases. Although his subjects were traditional (nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views), his …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum: Wheatfield with Crows, by Vincent Van Gogh

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. 900 paintings and more than a thousand drawings, a misunderstood genius in life and a profound influence in the art of the …

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EYES OF THE DAY AFTER – Return from Haarlem, the Netherlands perceiving complex nuances, memories of a trip

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THE OTHER ANDALUCIA – Seville: the colors of Velasquez and Murillo, together with the age-old cultural nuances that embrace the town of grace

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. This Spanish city of Andalusia – Seville – is known by a special name “the city of grace.” It is waiting for …

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