Gustave Courbet (France, 1819- Switzerland, 1877) burst onto the French art scene in the revolutionary context of 1848, and he did so with a proposal that would shake up the conventions…
Last year it came to light that the German authorities had found a flat in Munich holding 1,280 paintings, 500 of which were thought to have been stolen by the Nazis. Canvases by Matisse, Picasso…
The Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler wrote about the ultimate purpose of art: “The artist's mission is to express the eternal element that exists in nature, namely, beauty”. The emotion stirred by…
“To every age its art. To art its freedom”. This motto presides over the façade of the Vienna Secession building, a movement that emerged during the city's golden age, at the end of the 19th century. Gustav…
Art and technology have been forced into a close relationship. The link is already there in the earliest cave paintings, which turned to the technical means of the day to…
What stands out in Sócrates' artistic output is the angle he passes on to his artworks. A point of view with which he projects snapshots onto his canvases. The heightened, frenetic, rushed pace…
Great painters have interpreted the places that torment the human mind most, creating desolate artworks.La casa de locos (1808- 1812)In Francisco de Goya's madhouse (1746…
From its beginnings, cinema adapted works of literature, of theatre and of painting too. In the classics it found images to turn into movement. The seventh art still looks for…