Tag Archives: Modern Art
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
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
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
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
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
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
The naif beauty of Shintaro Ohata, painting and sculpture ensemble for daylife installations
We should make a new discovery every day we wake up and today´s is called Shintaro Ohata (Hiroshima 1975), a real contemporary artist who doesn´t pretend to be another fake in galleries but presenting a honest and clear proposal, even … Continue reading
Alberto García-Alix, definitive photographer from the 80´s Madrid creative scene to focus on misfits
Today we suggest a way back to photography and, in concrete, photography in black and white to valorate slowly the over time effect and the empty gazes. Today we fly back, with Alberto García-Alix, to the joyful “Movida madrileña”, the … Continue reading
The disturbing reality of hyper realistic painters
Our suggestion today: Let’s have a look at one of the most impressive artistic movements during the last decades, hyper realism. From our point of view, sure. Willem Dafoe´s portrait, by Charles Close Hyper realism is the realistic painting carried … Continue reading
Paul Klee at the Tate Modern Gallery spreading light and colour in a brilliant exhibition
Paul Klee is a giant of 20th century art scene and one of the greatest creative innovators of his time. Witty, inventive, magical, his exquisite paintings resist any easy classification. He is mentioned in the same breath as Matisse, Picasso and … Continue reading