Art Brut: art on the border between madness and sanity
"Of course this art is mad. What art isn't mad? When it isn't mad, it isn't art" The Art Brut movement was born in a time of destruction or, rather, of cultural reconstruction. After the…
"Of course this art is mad. What art isn't mad? When it isn't mad, it isn't art" The Art Brut movement was born in a time of destruction or, rather, of cultural reconstruction. After the…
Carmen Laffón is one of the most successful living painters and sculptors in Spain over the last few decades. Although she always had the chance to paint, since she comes from a…
The 20th century brought with it a new generation of artists and the recognition of others who had already built a career. We take a look at some of the great Spanish prospects and review the…
"What I am looking for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the unconscious..." -Amedeo Modigliani. Setting the world of cinema apart from what we consider art is like trying to separate…
The string of armed conflicts in the early 20th century left a Europe in ruins that had to start from scratch. After the Second World War, hundreds of…
If we want to find the natural home of the psychology of art, we'll have to travel back in time, a hundred years back, to get to know the life and work of Lev Vigotski, the first step in…
History had forgotten her, but more than a hundred years later she has been brought back by the initiative carried out at the Ánxel Casal Public Library in Santiago de Compostela. Thanks to that, you're reading…
"He who feeds on repressed desires finally rots". - William Blake.I met you not so long ago, at an exhibition running at Caixa Forum Madrid. Until that moment, all I knew was that you had…