When Braque and Picasso introduced collage as an artistic technique more than 100 years ago, they changed the way art was made and understood forever. The truth is that this method of…
Felipe San Pedro's luminous, colourful painting reproduces the shapes of those everyday moments that usually go unnoticed. He does it by heightening the beauty and mystery held in their essence…
At the artistic crossroads of the late 19th century, one of those who took the helm of change was the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (Bern, 1853- Geneva, 1918). Of humble origins and touched…
The literature of the universal William Shakespeare has been a source of inspiration for many artists. His work, full of imagination and narrative logic, brings together the ideal qualities to be handled in…
In the autumn of 1904, a young George Bellows arrived in New York and just twenty years later, with his promising career still under way, he died. Very different were the circumstances of…
Arco 2015 closes its doors with a positive, hopeful balance sheet. It seems the recovery is here to stay and, although this 34th edition still shows the scars of the…
In each of his canvases, Michel Michaux proposes a trip into imagination and fantasy to explore what hides in their corners. Once there, the senses are seduced by a…
Goethe illustrated one of his works, Contributions to Optics (1791), with the drawing of an eye surrounded by clouds, ringed by a rainbow and struck by a few rays of light. The eye takes the place of the sun in a…