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Jun 27, 2021

Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution

Emotive architecture — this is how the oeuvre of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902–1988) is often described. His works epitomize the syncretic tendency of Latin American modernisms to integrate local and traditional forms with European and North American artistic influences. Barragan’s attitude towards spatial distribution is sometimes discussed as a…

Mexican Architecture

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Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution
Luis Barragán: a ‘Quiet’ Architectural Revolution
Mexican Architecture

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Apr 8, 2021

Armando Reverón: Light That Dazzles, Light That Maddens

‘’Arman, why do you paint like that?’’ This is the question which the first Venezuelan modernist painter, Armando Reverón (1889–1954) sought to escape when he began leading a self- imposed Robinson Crusoe existence in the Caribbean village Macuto. Although an eccentric and a schizophrenic, Reverón spent the major part of…

Arte Venezuelana

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Armando Reverón: Light That Dazzles, Light That Maddens
Armando Reverón: Light That Dazzles, Light That Maddens
Arte Venezuelana

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Feb 13, 2021

Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was a revolutionary postwar group, founded in 1957 by French Marxist philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord and Danish artist Asger Jorn. Operating primarily in Paris, the SI was a truly international organization within the scope of Europe and North Africa, which developed a critique of late…

Avant Garde

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Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International
Cultural Subversions: the Case of the Situationist International
Avant Garde

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Jan 27, 2021

Faking it: Han van Meegeren’s ‘Vermeers’ and the Aesthetical Value of Forgery

Han van Meegeren (1889–1947) remains in history as the creator of the most scandalous forgeries of 17th-century artworks by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. An alleged Nazi collaborator, a drug addict, a promising artist, victim of unjustified criticism, Van Meegeren has been the subject of much art historical debate. …

Art

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Faking it: Han van Meegeren’s ‘Vermeers’ and the Aesthetical Value of Forgery
Faking it: Han van Meegeren’s ‘Vermeers’ and the Aesthetical Value of Forgery
Art

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Jan 13, 2021

Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness

The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti has entered the art historical canon as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. Primarily active in Paris, Giacometti’s early work was conceived under the sign of Surrealism. It centred on the repressed subconscious, enigmatic subject matter, sexuality and aggression. Nevertheless, the…

Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness
Alberto Giacometti and the Human Condition: Between Being and Nothingness
Giacometti

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Dec 24, 2020

Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell

Leon Ferrari is the only twentieth century artist who dedicated a major part of his artistic oeuvre to deconstructing the relationship between the Christian notion of Hell and human violence. His work opposes the tendency of understanding the post-war era as a period of desacralisation and predominant secularism. Examining the…

Leon Ferrari

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Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell
Inverting Sacrality: León Ferarri’s Rejection of a World with Hell
Leon Ferrari

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Sep 7, 2020

Brassaï: a Nocturne in ‘The City of Light’

Hungarian photographer Gyula Halász, more widely known as Brassaï (1899–1984), formed an integral part of the artistic scene of Paris between the two world wars, creating some of the most striking examples of night photography. Brassaï’s oeuvre was eclectically influenced by Surrealism, Italian Baroque, French Realism, and European literature, articulating…

Brassai

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Brassaï: a Nocturne in ‘The City of Light’
Brassaï: a Nocturne in ‘The City of Light’
Brassai

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Aug 27, 2020

Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint

‘Light is the life of everything it touches’. These words were the guiding principle of the oeuvre of the Spanish luminist painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), whose prolific artistic output is paradigmatic of the varying modernist tendencies of fin-de-siecle Europe. Luminism in itself, a term often criticized by art…

Sorolla

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Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint
Joaquín Sorolla: Light for Art’s Sake or How the Sun Became Paint
Sorolla

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Aug 16, 2020

María Izquierdo and the Female Face of National Identity

Proclaimed by Pablo Neruda ‘perhaps the greatest of all Mexican painters’, María Izquierdo was born in 1902 in San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco. She was active at a time when Muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco (also known as ‘los tres grandes’ or…

Mexican Art

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María Izquierdo and the Female Face of National Identity
María Izquierdo and the Female Face of National Identity
Mexican Art

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Jul 30, 2020

Lygia Pape and the Sensorial Art of Resistance

Lygia Pape (1929–2004) proved to be one of the most prominent Brazilian artists of the 20th century. Her work is marked by a shift from a formalist concern with geometric abstraction to a multimedia approach, encompassing installation, performance, video and conceptual art. Pape’s early years (1940s-50s) were characterized by her…

Brazilian Art

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Lygia Pape and the Sensorial Art of Resistance
Lygia Pape and the Sensorial Art of Resistance
Brazilian Art

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Rada Georgieva

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Art History and Russian MA student at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

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