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Abran paso a la abstracción Las nuevas formas artísticas revolucionarias cobran sentido La abstracción sacudió los cimientos del arte occidental. A principios del siglo XX, puso en jaque el dominio de las formas claras e indiscutibles y enfrentó al público con poemas visuales vívidos despojados de (...)

Within the abundant pantheon of the Yoruba deities, Shango is one of the most powerful gods: an incredible force of nature that strikes with lightning and meteorites. At once man, king and force of nature, he is a particularly complex example of the belief system of the Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, (...)

La leyenda de Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) continúa intacta. Símbolo del Nueva York de los años ochenta, el artista inició su carrera a finales de la década de 1970 bajo el seudónimo SAMO llenando las paredes de la ciudad con pintadas que contenían mensajes mordaces y fragmentos de poemas. (...)

Gustav Klimt (1862 1918) and his younger protégé Egon Schiele (1890 1918) are considered two of the greatest figures of Austrian Modernism. Whether inspiring or competing with one another, together they reconfigured the way the human body was translated into art. Although both artists are primarily (...)

From the 17th through the 19th century, artists in Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo) captured the metropolitan amusements of the floating world (ukiyo in Japanese) through depictions of subjects such as the beautiful women of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters and performers of the kabuki theater. In contrast (...)

In 1918 the Belvedere Museum in Vienna became the first Austrian museum to acquire an oil painting by Egon Schiele during his lifetime. Now, a century later, the museum owns one of the top collections of paintings from the artist's final decade of works.This volume presents the highlights of the (...)

Nel 2019, nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della scomparsa di Leonardo da Vinci, Palazzo Strozzi dedicherà una mostra al suo maestro: Andrea di Michele di Francesco di Cione, meglio noto come Verrocchio. L'esposizione vuole celebrare la figura di un artista che fu geniale interprete dei valori del (...)