Edvard Munch, The Scream: Audible demonstration of a nightmare

Today we’re going to walk around Norway to find out one of his most international artists, 2013 is the 150 celebration of his birth. We’re talking about Edvard Munch. Munch was born in Loten, Norway, in 1873. His childhood was … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, tenebrism 06.10.2013

Jack Goldstein´s hyperrealistic paintings, at the Jewish Museum NY

In the 80´s, Jack Goldstein´s photorealist paintings of lightning storms and other luminous phenomena made an indelible impression. Goldstein made copies from photographs and got images of spectacular and ephemeral events, usually against night skies. The final untitled paintings became … Continue reading →

Tagged >Hyperrealism, exhibitions, Modern Art, museums, PHOTOGRAPHY 23.08.2013

“Humble and colossal” impressionism by Camille Pissarro

The Thyssen Museum in Madrid brings us this summer the exhibition of 79 Pisarro’s paintings, chronologically ordered by the places he used to live in and which inspired his work. The big walnut in Eragny Pissarro was born in Santo … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, impressionism, museums 10.07.2013

Antonio López, “realism is wonderful because it’s where everything fits”

Today we approach the life and work of Antonio López, master of hyperrealism, in love with Madrid, its streets and roofs, a Man from La Mancha born in Tomelloso in January 1936 in a farmers family right before the Spanish civil … Continue reading →

Tagged >Hyperrealism, GREAT MASTERS 17.05.2013

A walk through: Dali, all of the poetic suggestions and plastic possibilities. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid

Going on with our posts on international artists exhibitions, we welcome back Dali, the absolute genious of surrealism. This time, Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid opens its doors to receive the exhibition “Dalí. All of the poetic suggestions and all of … Continue reading →

Tagged exposiciones, GREAT MASTERS, Reina Sofia, SURREALISM 07.05.2013

Becca,a touch of feminity in street art

Street art is still dominated by men, it’s hard to name a couple of female artists, thus, the one and only is Becca Midwood, artist who has travelled around the world endowing this style with a touch of refined feminity. … Continue reading →

Tagged GRAFFITI, Modern Art, street art 16.04.2013

Fernando Botero, that is: Glorification and beauty of the rotund body

Worldwide recognized painter and sculptor, we believe that every single person who listens the name of Fernando Botero, automatically recreates in his mind the plump shapes of the characters who dwell the big work of the Colombian artist. Since he … Continue reading →

Tagged GREAT MASTERS, Modern Art 04.04.2013

Hernan Dvojak, painting and illustration from Buenos Aires to Madrid

On a rainy afternoon we discover the work of an Argentinian painter, settled down in Madrid, Hernán Dvojak (Buenos Aires, 1979), plastic artist who focuses his talent on the study of spaces between painting and digital art -illustration- in times of … Continue reading →

Tagged DIGITAL ART, Modern Art 28.03.2013

Merci encore, Musée d’Orsay! Welcome back to Goya, Ernst, Poe, Munch, Frankenstein, Tim Burton and The Cure

We´re specially glad to write this post after some weeks looking for a reason to slowdown and look back at the “dark side of the art”, at those paintings that remind us how fragile we are, how much fear there … Continue reading →

Tagged Black romanticism, exhibitions, museums, Orsay, tenebrism 15.03.2013

Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Tate Gallery,London: When Mickey Mouse became Pop Art

Finally, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) landed in Europe, from the Washington National Gallery, through the Tate Gallery in London, where visitors will know his work until July 27, 2013, when the showcase will be taken to the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one … Continue reading →

Tagged exhibitions, GREAT MASTERS, Modern Art, POP ART 27.02.2013