During the second half of the 19th century, Paris went through a major process of reform under Baron Haussmann, turning into the most powerful and modern metropolis in Europe. The new…
Han van Meegeren's forgeries were so good that he himself had to be the one to expose the fraud. But why did he do it? Here is the extraordinary story of the artist who…
Stylised forms and intense chromatic contrast are the hallmarks of Peruvian painter Alex Salas Machuca's artwork. A stimulating combination that results in striking and…
William Blake was barely ten years old when he claimed to have seen a host of angels in a tree that gave off its own light. This was the first of the many visions that stayed with him throughout…
An unreal, deeply emotional atmosphere presides over the imposing Vista de Toledo that El Greco painted around 1604-1614. It's a revolutionary artwork from the last period of his…
In the artwork of Carmelo González Gutiérrez (Cuba, 1956), art stops being only aesthetics and becomes a message too. To pull it off, he develops a kind of painting with a strong symbolic charge, fed by his imagination and his longings…
Vincent van Gogh learned from many masters. The one who also became his spiritual guide was the great Jean- François Millet (Gruchy, 1814 - Barbizon, 1875). What drew the Dutch genius was his…
Munich, 1911. The arrival of a group of artists who went by the name Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) shook up the unstoppable deforming course of Expressionism. Their proposal…