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GĂ©rĂ´me: painting and spectacle
The Lumière brothers hadn't yet set the machinery of cinema in motion when the French painter Gérôme was already building images that could easily be mistaken for Hollywood stills…
Adriana Vega
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Olga Armand Ugon: the richness of textures
In every artwork of her extensive collection, Olga Armand Ugon expresses herself with absolute freedom, letting shapes and matter develop a spontaneous compositional dialogue that brings out their richness…
Masters
Modigliani, alone with the artist
Modigliani had a complicated, short life. A life full of hardship, chaos and excess that fed his reputation as a doomed painter. But if we set aside the labels and the myths…
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Venus dormida or Venus de Urbino?
The Venus dormida set a precedent in the history of painting and, on top of that, a whole line of beautiful descendants. Among them, the Venus de Urbino. The two share the same appearance, and yet they are…
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Ricardo Reyes Archila: the pop art party
Is it possible to discover something new about pop? Just when it seems everything to do with this movement has already been seen, the work of Ricardo Reyes Archila surprises us with an answer…
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Mary Cassatt: the American Impressionist
Long before the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought French Impressionism to New York in 1886, Mary Cassatt was already a successful artist of the movement. How did she pull it off?Mary Stevenson…
Masters
Juan Gris: interpreting Cubism
Every definition his contemporaries gave of José Victoriano González Pérez (Madrid, 1887 - Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1927), universally known as Juan Gris, had one thing in common…
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Pedro Baos: what reality hides
Pedro Baos' painting has evolved towards figurative appearances that reveal the secrets reality keeps. A reality that human beings have always tried to capture through…