The Musee d'Orsay celebrates its 40th anniversary with a major show devoted to Renoir's most luminous years, those from 1865 to 1885. Fifty paintings bring together the universe of pleasure, love and human conviviality that the painter built before his Impressionist crisis, a declaration in favor of a happy modernity.
On 24 February, Ivorypress opened a major exhibition with the title BOOKS BEYOND ARTIST: Words and Images, where the visitor can see that the book forms part, on an equal footing, of what is considered a traditional work of…
"Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels" has just opened in Florence, an important exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). His monumental work is confronted with the Renaissance spirit of the Palazzo Strozzi. This palace of Florentine pietraforte stone, inspired by Greco-Roman architecture, will house, until 21 July, a show curated by the historian and art critic Arturo Galansino, composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs.
The work in question is one of Claudel's emblematic pieces. It depicts three figures: a kneeling young woman, "the imploring one", who stretches out her arms in a desperate gesture toward a man of virile build dragged like a wave by an elderly woman with the power to pull him away from her. This composition, like any work of art, lends itself to multiple interpretations, just as plural are the gazes of the one who observes.
Berthe Morisot, a key figure of Impressionism, brought an intimate and feminine gaze to the modern art of the 19th century. With a unique sensibility for light and color, she portrayed everyday scenes with an unprecedented freshness, raising the domestic and the natural to a poetic category. Her daughter Julia, her husband Eugene Manet and the gardens of Bougival were muses of a body of work in which the instant and emotion merge with elegance and modernity.
The exhibition "Gauguin. The Noa Noa Diary and Other Adventures", which has opened in Rome, invites us to follow the intimate and artistic journey of the master of Symbolism. Inspired by his writings from Tahiti, the show reveals a Gauguin in search of the primitive and the authentic, far from a decadent Europe. With more than 160 works, including pieces by Van Gogh and Emile Bernard, the exhibition shows how Gauguin transformed painting into a spiritual and symbolic language that opened the way to the modern art of the 20th century.
Editorial Taschen has published a monumental collector's edition devoted to Salvador Dali, which in two volumes reveals previously unseen material on his life and work with the collaboration of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation. This exhaustive overview shows the genius from Figueras in all his complexity: creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an egomaniacal provocateur and a revolutionary of 20th-century art. Among religious fantasies, erotic obsessions and the mythical figure of Gala, Dali embodied surrealism as a personal and vital attitude beyond any doctrine.
The exceptional exhibition "Raimundo de Madrazo", organized by the Fundacion MAPFRE and the Meadows Museum, brings together more than a hundred works in the largest retrospective devoted to date to the refined Madrid painter. the technical virtuosity and the sophisticated world that Madrazo immortalized, revealing the legacy of an essential artistic dynasty and recovering for our time the exquisite sensibility of one of the great names of 19th-century Spanish painting.
Author: Angeles Blanco. Graduate in philosophy and history Outspoken, provocative, multifaceted, erudite, revolutionary, reflective yet impulsive, contemporary… countless adjectives can define the overwhelming personality of Jean-Michel Basquiat who, despite his fleeting career, has left an indelible mark on the art…
The matador Jose Tomas and the artist Luis Gordillo have been brought together by their tribute to the bullfighter Victor Barrio. A bull, "Lorenzo", took the life of the young torero from Segovia. "Navegante" gored Jose Tomas gravely in Aguascalientes. The master of Galapagar knows what it is to die in the ring; he did it, but he came back after dwelling in that place. His heart never stopped beating even as life gushed out of him.