Although neither Homer nor Hesiod make any known reference to him, Orpheus is one of the leading figures of Greek mythology. Son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, (in some other versions of the god…
The artwork of painter Antonia Portalo Sánchez expresses from the very first moment a primal calling towards colour and the desire to paint. Largely self-taught and backed by…
At a moment in history (1730-1760) when the Rococo movement, with its taste for the exotic, the refined and the sensual, ruled the French art scene, fate chose to place, in that…
There's something magnetic about windows. Windows draw us back to them again and again. We close them, we open them, we fill rooms with their constant flow of changing light. We air out our lost nights through the windows. Those of…
Chilean artist Leonardo Sepúlveda, based in the city of Linares, in the Maule region, is one of the most interesting exponents of his country's folk painting today. Describing himself as…
“It isn't hard to draw imaginary forms, monstrous figures, hallucinatory apparitions; what's hard is to catch a glimpse of something invisible that inwardly animates the beings and things of the world…
Spitzweg was born in Munich in 1808 and became a pharmacist because his father demanded it. When his father died he gave up pharmacy and devoted himself to painting. The…
Xolotl Polo's painting gathers the people, the colours and the landscapes of his own experiences. On his canvases he sets up a stage of gesture and deconstruction to play with light and shapes, creating…