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Review: Marianela Gallardo
Marianela Gallardo's man is a superman, but there's nothing Nietzschean about him. He's a powerful man, emphatic, determined, yet he lives for her, the woman, whom he wraps in an embrace…
David Rubio
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Artworks that changed the history of art: "Blanco sobre blanco" by Malévich
Have you ever felt that absolute emptiness that comes after a dream comes true? Months, maybe years of work to turn an ethereal illusion, a vague idea that comes to us in a…
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The 8 most famous portraits in the history of painting
The portrait is a genre that is part and parcel of painting. It was born the very moment a human being thought of representing a motif on the wall of a cave. Over time, the…
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Jaume Plensa: the sculptor with eyes in his fingers
2019 will be remembered as the Plensa year in Spain. After decades of success in the art market abroad, recognition finally arrived with two exhibitions, one in Barcelona and another in…
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Maurice Utrillo, the accursed painter who didn't die
The painter of Montmartre, the Oedipus of the back room at the Tentempié, the drunk who traded canvases for bottles of wine... Maurice Utrillo (1883 – 1955) was many things over the course of his life, but…
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Review: Jacques Villares
The urban watercolourist always faces the same dilemma: do I paint the motif everyone expects from a city, or do I look for new points of view? Jacques Villares isn't satisfied with the…
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Roy Lichtenstein: the painter who took comics to the museum
“My God, why didn't I think of that before?”. Those were Andy Warhol's words when he first saw Roy Lichtenstein's (1923 – 1997) artwork inspired by comic strips and…
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Review: Josep Obradors
Beach or mountains? Give me a desert. A few weeks ago we were asking ourselves why most of us like the same paintings, and this time, taking advantage of Josep Obradors' series of artworks, the question worth…