“I'd like to think of myself as an interpreter. Just as you can love Bach through Oistrakh, you can love Modigliani through me”. That was how Elmyr de Hory defended himself in a 1973 interview. By then…
When Braque and Picasso introduced collage as an artistic technique more than 100 years ago, they changed the way art was made and understood forever. The truth is that this method of…
The literature of the universal William Shakespeare has been a source of inspiration for many artists. His work, full of imagination and narrative logic, brings together the ideal qualities to be handled in…
In the autumn of 1904, a young George Bellows arrived in New York and just twenty years later, with his promising career still under way, he died. Very different were the circumstances of…
Few elements inside a painting alter its dimensions as much as a mirror does. An object whose function, apparently, is limited to reflecting whatever stands in front of it. But is the…
J. L. David, Goya and Delacroix, geniuses of painting and of reportage. All three lived through episodes of the most revolutionary chapters of world history and turned them into exquisite stories. La muerte de…
Pointillism turns the tiny into something immeasurable. It makes the minuscule sprout particles that strike the human eye as iridescent paradises. It turns every dot into a unique world of colour…
The Venus dormida set a precedent in the history of painting and, on top of that, a whole line of beautiful descendants. Among them, the Venus de Urbino. The two share the same appearance, and yet they are…