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Sea and painting: a brief romance
Sea and painting are thought of as the perfect pair. And yet the relationship between the two has not been as long or as peaceful as one might imagine, bound up as it is with…
Adriana Vega
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Ricardo Cruz Fuentes: the chance to laugh
Humour isn't something that often slips onto canvas. It's as if laughter had never been invited to become a target for the brushes. Ricardo Cruz Fuentes (Mexico City…
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Where does creativity come from?
Creativity is a word that turns up in our lives every day, but what does being creative really mean? Is everyone creative? We've gathered some of the theories that think about creativity…
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Eloy Vivas Barrera: the suggestion of art
The artwork of Eloy Vivas Barrera escapes any established parameter. The need that drives the artist to experiment and give shape to new expressive concerns is resolved in a body of work…
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This Christmas, enjoy art through cinema
Not long ago we brought you a few examples of how cinema manages to bring scenes from canvases to life. But the seventh art also has a soft spot for turning the lives of those creators into frames…
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Japanese prints: fantasy arrived in Europe
Many European artists of the second half of the 19th century found new inspiration in Japanese prints. These lithographs put forward compositional ideas nobody knew, and their drawings…
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La Gioconda gets a new identity
Ever since Giorgio Vasari's word on the identity of La Gioconda was called into question, thousands of legends and guesses have sprung up about who that mysterious young woman with the unreadable expression really is…
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Antonio Pérez Bornot: the aesthetics of beauty
Bornot's work has a strongly decorative streak, made real through devices that generate a pleasurable visual content. Aiming, with every move, for the…