"Sometimes the painting is demanding something. It sounds unreal or absurd, but that's how it is, the painting asks things of you, you feel forced by it, the artwork gives more orders than you do." -Montserrat Gudiol. Like all children, little…
Talking about Viennese Actionism without mentioning Otto Muehl is like talking about Cubism without Picasso in the lead role. The Austrian was feared by many, hated by others and praised by five hundred…
To coincide with Argentina's International Video Art Festival (FIVA 2016), we take a closer look at the universe of video art, which peaked in the 1960s and 70s. Thanks…
Some people fall in love with the sea and stay trapped in it forever. Something similar happened to the painter Guillaumet with the desert. He immortalised the Sahara on his canvases like no one else. This painter…
"Just as Leonardo studied human anatomy and tried to dissect bodies, I try to dissect souls" (Edvard Munch) Expressionism marked a before and after in the concept of art because of…
European neoclassicism left us great artworks in every branch of the arts, though we perhaps remember some more than others. The reader may notice that in this article we have only…
How do you define the indefinable? That's the question Mark Rothko would be asking right now if he were still teaching this sub-movement he created more than five decades ago. This amalgam…
The hyperrealist school appears in the 60s with a hidden goal, which is none other than competing with photography. After photography turned up in the middle of the 19th century, painting…