Blog posts about artist on the spotlight
The Work of Arturo Samaniego
With incredible skill, Arturo Samaniego depicts his subjects: the sea -that primordial mother, source of all life- and the woman -symbol of beauty, love and finally life-.
The Art of Vita Di Milano
Vita Di Milano is a highly gifted artist, whose artistic skills are indisputable in all regards; be it technically, thematically, or conceptually (with his references to social criticism, or the use of irony and also with symbolic ones).
Vittorio Canta: Futurism Died when the Future Became the Present
The idea to approach Vittorio Canta for an interview occurred when we were curating USEUM’s Futurism exhibition. While browsing USEUM to find appropriate artworks for Futurism, we came across Vittorio Canta’s artworks Circus Minimum, Horse Power and Lance’s Triumph could not help but remind us of Marinetti as well as the work of other futurist artists and their commitment to depict the beauty of modern life – speed, technology, movement and dynamism.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
There is an air of mystery surrounding the identity of the girl. Α theory wants the girl to be Vermeer’s eldest daughter Maria, and another wide spread conjecture claims that she was his maid. The second scenario inspired both a novel and a movie, in which the girl was a servant with whom Vermeer had a relationship. She was painted wearing one of his wife‘s pearl earrings...
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s 127th birthday is being celebrated with a Google Doodle dedicated to her iconic geometrical abstraction aesthetic reflected here with one of her 'Composition' series.
Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970): Transcendent “Multiforms”
“And if you, as you say, are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point”, Mark Rothko.
Mark Rothko was one of the avant-garde artists of the New York School, an American abstract expressionist painter with Russian-Jewish origin who used color as his main means of painting. Like most of the artists after the Second World War, he turned to introspection and sought individual expression in subtractive art.
Olivier Lamboray: At a Crossroads between Reality and Illusion
Jacques Louis David: The Robespierre of the brush
Portrait of Madame Jose-Maria de Heredia by Emile Lévy
The soft colored Louis XVI style room, the elegant light pink evening gown and the classic pose add to the graceful result. Although the painting seems still and the pose conventional, the lady is actually moving while trying to fit one of her gloves, giving the impression that Lévy was there only to capture this moment.
Putting things into bold perspective
Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894): Putting things into bold perspective. Inspired by urban scenes in Paris of the late 19th century and the emerging art of photography, Caillebotte plays with bold perspective presented through unusual viewing angles.
The neo-classical painter with the flawless line
David Barton's art can only be fun
Who said that art can’t be fun? Certainly not David Barton! With his work he is not making fun of works by ‘old masters’ but rather gives a new life and meaning to them by using contemporary icons, widely recognisable by anyone. In this way he actually makes art more approachable to the wider audience; rather than hailing the ‘iconic paintings’, the ‘masterpieces’ - terms widely used when referring to the work of Van Gogh, Seurat and Monet among others - he takes a brave step by actually using this much celebrated paintings and recontextualising them in modern day society.
The Impressions of Mary Cassatt
There are very few female artists from before the 20th century that have survived in books of art and Mary Cassatt is one of them. Since women were not accepted at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the time, she took private lessons and later exhibited with the Impressionists, to whom she was introduced by her friend Edgar Degas.
Reality through the eyes of Cézanne
The Joker
Harlequin, the French name of the Commedia dell’ arte character Arlecchino, the Joker figure of the cards that inspired the archenemy of Batman, originates back to the devilish character found in medieval passion plays. Jane Lewis depicts him in The Harlequin’s catas the light-hearted young manfirst introduced in the Italian theatre, but with the chequered costume that he acquired from 17th century Parisian fashion.
El Greco: 400 Years On
Art, Love and the Humanity: A talk with Giorgio Pol. Ioannidis
A comment on the past
Darkness hides all... even your fears
