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In the late 1940s, Jackson Pollock developed the technique for which he is best known—drip painting. He placed the canvas on the floor, stating, “this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” Pollock’s abstract work was hard to decipher, but his rebellious nature and expressions of freedom were clearly evident. …

Capitalism cannibalizing this city, as in the rest of Europe, but the Latvian capital does not hide the scars of a troubled past. Do not be fooled by its austere appearance or its small, quiet streets made of cobblestones. Riga is a cauldron of life and fun, full of quirky local, modern art and contemporary art centers, restaurants, and beautiful …

He, a leading figure in the music of his native Lithuania, is currently head of the Composition Department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. His music now draws on a variety of idioms, from the medieval to jazz. Osvaldas Jonas Balakauskas is a Lithuanian composer of classical music. He has also distinguished himself as an insightful and accurate …

THE MORNING PIERCED Shovelling ashes and chunks of clinker from the fireplace, I found a bloody nail, whose suffering warmed me through the centuries. It’s cold outside. ICE AGE We were cutting logs together, planks from the demolished byre, thick blocks of books, page by page splinters shredded, bark my uncle at the saw, saint anthony, father and myself, merely …

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 …

MARCEL DUCHAMP 1/3 – Four of the six Duchamp children became artists, but he was that born in a summer day. The French artist who broke down the boundaries between works of art and everyday objects. His irreverence for conventional aesthetic standards, led him to devise his famous ready-mades and heralded an artistic revolution. He was friendly with the Dadaists, …

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of the greatest living poets, well-known around the world for being the protagonist of dissent and the American counterculture, since the days of the legendary beat generation. Poetry as an art that arises is devoted to the social impact of the poem and its validity as a tool of individual and collective liberation. The collection consists …

GIOVANNI SEGANTINI 1/3 – Looking at the works of Segantini, always immersed in intense atmospheres and quiet, even today we can see that man – an Italian painter who lived in the late nineteenth century – that split the mountains, an artist who felt the power of nature. He is considered among the best painters of the Italian pointillist current …

Alda Merini is an Italian poet, born in Milan in 1931. She is the youngest of three brothers, born in a family of modest economic conditions, which will have consequences, when she asks to be admitted at the high school, which does not exceed the test of Italian. She has the good fortune to meet a man named Giacinto Spagnoletti …

The most important music of the early Renaissance was composed for use by the church—polyphonic (made up of several simultaneous melodies) masses and motets in Latin for important churches and court chapels. By the end of the sixteenth century, patronage was split among many areas: the Catholic Church, Protestant churches and courts, wealthy amateurs, and music printing, all were sources …

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 …