It was 1908 when Le Douanier Rousseau said to Picasso that famous line, “we are the two greatest painters of our time, you in the Egyptian style and I in the modern one”. Some time had to pass…
In her artwork, Samanta Rched Abugauch proposes a reinvention of figurative art, adapting classical forms to contemporary feelings and concepts. The work of this young Argentine painter purifies…
Many art historians and critics still wonder how far Schiele would have gone had he not died at just twenty-eight, when he had already established himself as one of the…
“I'd like to think of myself as an interpreter. Just as you can love Bach through Oistrakh, you can love Modigliani through me”. That was how Elmyr de Hory defended himself in a 1973 interview. By then…
Fantasy comes to life in the artwork of Giuseppe Sticchi. The Italian painter abandons the logical imitation of reality to invent an emotional reading of it. In each of his…
Architecture, geometry and light. These are the keys to understanding the unsettling work of the Dane Hammershoi. A painter who is perhaps little known, but who holds a prominent place in the history…
MarĂa JosĂ© BuxĂł builds spaces full of harmony and beauty through a sensitive use of colour. Her artwork concentrates an overflowing visual power put together out of an intense…
Caravaggio and Rembrandt were two of the greatest exponents of the Baroque, two original artists with eventful, tragic lives who never crossed paths in time or place. That is surely why…