They had no way of knowing it, but somehow they cut adrift from the 19th century by capsizing painting altogether, defying their contemporaries as in a boycott, turning their backs on the Academy and on all the canons. They did not actually baptize t
Surrealism is the longest-living ism, the only avant-garde movement that has withstood the turn into the 21st century. Surrealist today are Björk’s videos (with explicit references to Man Ray), fashion (such as the collections of Rei Kawakubo, the Ja
On view through 27 April at Michèle Schoonjans Gallery in Brussels is an exhibition that is simultaneously a game and a tribute to the great Milanese architect Gio Ponti (1891-1979). Bea Sarrias uses geometry as a compositional tool, in addition to l
The fact that Le Corbusier, peintre à Cap-Martin (Éditions du Patrimoine, 2015) has now been published in English is a further step in the reexamination of Le Corbusier that we have been seeing for some time now, and specifically situates his artisti
It is trite to quote Talleyrand (“Ceux qui n’ont pas connu l’Ancien Régime ne pourront jamais savoir ce qu’était la douceur de vivre”) to summon up the Rococo sweetness of aristocratic life before the Revolution, and many of my generation learned to
Much of the Swiss-German Bauhaus-associated painter's work, which at its most distinctive defines its own category of abstraction, still exudes a vitality today. He left behind not just those 9,000 pieces of art (not counting the hand puppets he
Hilma af Klint did not trust her peers to understand her work. She sensed her paintings were too weird and too radical for her fellow Swedes. As a star pupil of Stockholm’s Royal Academy, she made a living selling impressionistic landscapes. But she
The centenary of the artistic movement De Stijl prompts recollection of the theoretical texts by its foremost artist, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
Over more than two decades, between 1912 and 1936, the CIPP (commission for paleontological and prehistoric research) made a vast number of tracings and drawings of cave art paintings found in different areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The Museo Nacio
Multifaceted and pioneering, Elena Asins combined art and technology, and explored the aesthetic opportunities offered by digital media.
Cuando un arquitecto logra que se editen sus cuadernos de dibujo a tamaño natural, que se exponga su obra en un país tras otro y que Electa le haga una monografía, puede estar seguro de que se encuentra en lo mejor de su carrera. Éste es el caso de S
Llevando la contraria’, es decir, á rebours, es como parece haber concebido Dore Ashton su exposición sobre la pintura informalista entre 1939 y 1968. Esta comisaria, reconocida especialista en el arte norteamericano de la posguerra, es autora, entre
Guillermo Pérez Villalta parece haber concebido su última exposición como una amarga invectiva contra la pintura actual. Si hemos de hacer caso a lo que dice en su texto Pictura ut via sapientiae, el arte verdadero tiene siempre una vocación de etern
