Bansky, a mindful outlook on migrants and Syrian refugees

One of our preferred artists, the British famous urban artist named Bansky, whose identity nobody appears to know, is demanding attention on the terrible crisis of growing illegal inmigration and, during the last years, Syrian refugees escaping from terrorism and … Continue reading →

18.04.2016

100 street art works, when art leaves museums

Funny, disgusting, shocking, evocating, minimal and huge, anonymous, unexpected, romantic, childish, impossible or tridimensional… But always imaginative. Urban art, street art, whatever you like, it came, saw the panorama, took the art out of museums for a ride and stayed. … Continue reading →

Tagged installations, Modern Art, street art 29.03.2016

Kandinsky´s retrospective at Centro Cibeles Madrid

Cibeles Center, in Madrid, hosts until next February 28th the biggest retrospective exhibition held in Spain of Kandinsky, he was pioneer of abstract art, and one of the most important avant-garde painters of all the times. The exhibition covers four … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, Modern Art, museums 15.02.2016

Edvard Munch at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Any other painting you know apart from The Scream?

Las October it was inaugurated the retrospective exhibition “Edvard Munch: Archetypes” about the work of the renowned and however unknown Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. The first thing we have to tell you about this exhibition is that you will not … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, museums, tenebrism 28.12.2015

Cuenca, Fernando Zobel and the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, a love story

We´d like to start the post apologizing for writing a bit late about our loved city of Cuenca, in Spain, and about the disruptive (this word currently and too oftenly used to name something that is countercultural, pioneering, courageous and … Continue reading →

Tagged Abstract expressionism, Modern Art, museums 02.06.2015

Malaga and Andalusia welcome the first Centre Pompidou outside France

It could be said that the origin of the new Centre Pompidou in Málaga (Spain) was a conversation between the present Major of Malaga and the French Ambassador during a football match held in Malaga in 2008. There came the … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, Modern Art, museums 21.04.2015

The collection of modern art of Kunstmuseum Basel arrives at Prado and Reina Sofia Museums in Madrid

Installation of “The two brothers” by Pablo Picasso, at Museo del Prado, Madrid Kunstmuseum Basel, the Art Museum of Basel, is considered as the first Public Museum in the world. Nowadays the main building of Kunstmuseum Basel is being restored, … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, Modern Art, museums 29.03.2015

Tribute to Paul Durand-Ruel, entrepreneur, art dealer and father of impresionism

Nowadays, impressionism is one of painting´s most admired movements but most people don´t know that the global success of this pictoric movement owes its existence to the efforts of the great French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, entrepreneur and visionary. Portrait … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, impressionism, museums 03.02.2015

Pop Art at Thyssen Museum to color up this summer in Madrid

The great gallery Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Pop Art Myths, the first exhibition in Madrid since that one in 1992 at Reina Sofia museum. More than 60 works from this artistic movement that show the public the new visión of pop art … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, Modern Art, museums, POP ART 03.07.2014

El Expolio (The Disrobing of Christ). Maximum representation of the dramatism in El Greco’s paintings

In the spring of 1577 Domenikos Theotokopoulos arrived in Toledo, just a little bit later, on June 2, he received from García de Loaysa 13.600 maravedies (currency at the time) to start painting “El Expolio” and there began the story … Continue reading →

Tagged EL GRECO, exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, museums 30.05.2014