Tag Archives: Modern Art
Mark Rothko, “a sense of the tragic is always with me when I paint”
Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkovitz) was born in Dvinsk, Russia, in 1903. By 1913 he emigrated to the States with his family, settling down in Portland, Oregon. America welcomed them, other millions of jews as well, but his father couldn’t enjoy … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Robert Adams, the great American storyteller, in his first photography European tour, at the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid takes advantage in 2013, among the exciting panorama of exhibitions that will delight fans of art and tourists in Spain for the next months, with a showcase of photography by the American Robert Adams … Continue reading
Dali´s surrealism gets back to Centre Pompidou Paris after three decades
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is delighting us once again, this time with a retrospective exhibition on Dali´s masterworks, not only including paintings but esculptures, installations and writings through which the Spanish genious from Figueras showed his great intuition to … Continue reading
The brilliantly grey photography by Tommy Ingberg
Let´s get back to the basics, to the beauty of black and white and the apparently grey men dressed in their apparently grey suits and silently watching life go by under their classic hats. Let´s get back to The Maltese … Continue reading