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Abstract world of Wassily Kandinsky and the sound of painting
As a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter and a key teacher at the Bauhaus, Kandinsky shaped both modern painting and art theory. His dynamic compositions, vibrant colors, and influential writings continue to define the foundations of abstract art.
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The Fauvist Revolution: How Colour Became King
Freed from the strict technique advocated by the École des Beaux-Arts, they used blocky colours as their main resource, saturating their stunning paintings. The author invites us to experience this vivid artistic evolution that, although encompassing a short amount of time, left its mark on the path to modernity.
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – The breakthrough on Cubism
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon: five young women that changed modern art forever. Faces seen simultaneously from the front and in profile, angular bodies whose once voluptuous feminine forms disappear behind asymmetric lines - with this work, Picasso revolutionised the entire history of painting. Cubism was thus born in 1907.
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Early years: The shaping of Georgia O’Keeffe
The legacy she left behind is a unique vision that translates the complexity of nature into simple shapes for us to explore and make our own discoveries. She taught us there is poetry in nature and beauty in geometry. Georgia O’Keeffe’s long lifetime of work shows us new ways to see the world, from her eyes to ours.
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Lessons to be Learnt from The Wizard of Oz and Matisse
Imagine you’re Dorothy. You have just escaped Auntie Em and a life of rusticated farm-life. You step out of your house, and no more black-and-white, but BOOM! It’s a colour explosion, where you are literally on the other side of the rainbow. And never mind those Munchkins… What would you think, honestly? That you are in some strange kind of fever-dream? Or that you have accidentally ingested a potent hallucinogenic (let’s forget for the moment that Dorothy probably doesn’t know what that is)? Or, simply, that you’ve just gone crazy? I think it fair enough to say that these feelings may be eerily similar to those experienced by Matisse and…
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Marmite and Klee
Let me steer you away from the realm of art for a moment, and instead let me ask you to consider the many love/hate relationships that we so often have. Take chocolate for instance; LOVE chocolate, HATE myself afterwards (for all those who have consumed an entire large Galaxy bar in one sitting, you know what I mean….). And then there’s Reality Television. You know it’s wasting your life, minute by minute, and yet it can be so voyeuristically compelling. And finally: marmite. Of course, the old ‘you love it or you hate it’ phrase was seemingly created for this food product. Personally, I fall into the ‘love’ category, but…
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