There's no artwork without its painter and no painter without his brush. Let's begin, if you'll allow us, with the obvious. Once the artwork is finished, the colours survive on the canvas and there they…
From 24 November until 27 March next year, the Madrid gallery is hosting an exhibition with the main artworks of the French painter Ingres, one of the first to move beyond…
The Bauhaus academy, founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius and active until 1933, the year it was shut down by the German political machinery of the time, is a…
Elaine of Astolat (at some point, maybe never), better known as the Lady of Shalott, has never painted a picture in her life. Elaine just stays there after the eclipse, weaving another morning from her…
The figure of the cat has carried an ambivalent symbolism across different civilizations and cultures. So, while in feudal Japan the cat becomes a bad omen, or in the Kabbalah and Buddhism it is directly linked to the meaning of the…
The value and artistic quality of the woodcuts of French engraver and illustrator Gustave Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 - Paris, 1883) make him one of the most prolific and influential draughtsmen…
A display of tone taking over the space, making itself felt in the shapes. A careful, elegant composition. A study of the situation, brushstrokes that know how to behave, diluted and watery…
“Nil similus insanu quam ebrius” (Nothing is more like a madman than a drunkard) is the inscription presiding over El rey bebe (1640-1645), one of the most studied paintings by Jacob Jordaens (Antwerp…