www.meetvincent.com Thanks to the technological era it was never easier to get into the life of an artist who died 130 years ago.The interactive and multi-sensory experience follows in the footsteps of the world’s most iconic artist, bringing together the Van Gogh Museum’s world-leading research and unique collection of the artist’s personal letters, to recreate …
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/picasso-and-paper BY Susana Valcarcel If you do not know that one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) invented a universe of art involving paper, do not miss this ground-breaking exhibition focuses on the myriad ways in which the artist worked both on and with paper, and offers new insights into …
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/british-baroque BY Susana Valcarcel This exhibition covers the reigns of the last Stuart monarchs, from the restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. It was an age when art was used to support and advertise the authority of the monarchy. The later Stuart period was an age of hierarchy. …
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/dora-maar BY Susana Valcarcel Maar belonged to a generation of women photographers eager to seize the professional opportunities created by the interwar boom in advertising and the illustrates press.She took assignments in fashion and advertising, travelled to document social conditions and made wildly inventive images that came to occupy an important place in surrealism. Maar’s approach …
Dora Maar 1907-1997 Surrealist photographer who freaked out Picasso’s brushes. Read More »
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2020/february/british-surrealism/ BY LEO BABAUTA Transgressive and bizarre art movement of the twentieth century, Surrealism, it broke conventions, it demolished boundaries. Categories and chronologies were abandoned, the mind was set free. The end was only the beginning. Existence was elsewhere.This point of view so groundbreaking had a huge impact on a wide range of British artist. This …
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