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Alphonse Mucha and The Woman in Bloom
Mucha's posters, advertisements, and illustrations, particularly for theater productions and commercial products, showcased his talent for merging fine art with practical design. His legacy extends beyond his commercial success, influencing the aesthetics of the early 20th century and continuing to inspire contemporary artists and designers.
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Edvard Munch, the master of psychological, emotional and spiritual perception
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter involved in Expressionism, was so attached to his work that he called his paintings his children, which is rather unsurprising given that they were deeply personal.
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Ilya Repin – The gifted artist of the group known as “The Itinerants”
Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him.
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MUCHA MEETS CHINA: A Breathtakingly Beautiful Mucha Exhibition in Shanghai
Exhibition: Mucha Date: 2019.03.30-07.21 Venue: Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China. The text below is the excerpt of the book Alphonse Mucha, written by Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles, published by Parkstone International. This article is the continuation of part 1, which can be read here. The luxurious theatricality of Central European Baroque with its lush curvilinear and nature-inspired decoration undoubtedly coloured his imagination and inspired a taste for “smells and bells” and religious paraphernalia that remained with him throughout his life. At the height of his fame, his studio was described as being like a “secular chapel… screens placed here and there, that could well be confessionals; and then incense burning all…
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Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait." - James Whistler
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Art Nouveau
"One can argue the merits and the future of the new decorative art movement, but there is no denying it currently reigns triumphant over all Europe and in every English-speaking country outside Europe; all it needs now is management, and this is up to men of taste.” (Jean Lahor, Paris 1901)
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Everything you can imagine is real
Exhibition: Guernica Date: 27 March – 29 July 2018 Venue: Canal de Isabel II Foundation, Madrid. Musée national Picasso | Paris, France Although, as Picasso himself put it, he “led the life of a painter” from very early childhood, and although he expressed himself through the plastic arts for eighty uninterrupted years, the essence of Picasso’s creative genius differs from that usually associated with the notion of the artiste-peintre. It might be more correct to consider him an ‘artist-poet’ because his lyricism, his psyche, unfettered by mundane reality, and his gift for the metaphoric transformation of reality are no less inherent in his visual art than they are in the mental…
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’
Exhibition: Guernica Date: March 27 – July 29, 2018 Venue: Musée national Picasso | Paris, France When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’ – Pablo Picaaso The bloody historical event that moved Picasso to create this masterpiece in one month took place shortly before its first exhibition at the 1937 World Exposition in Paris, where it was shown after it was commissioned by the government of the Spanish Republic. The images and feelings of the three-hour bombing and destruction of the Basque town of Guernica by Nazi planes were still…
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Mantegna and the Concept of Total Illusion
Exhibition: Mantegna and Bellini Date: March 21 – July 1, 2018 Venue: Fondazione Querini Stampalia | Venice, Italy The art of Andrea Mantegna (born c.1431, died 1506) has long maintained a broad and deep appeal. From the impressive illusionism of his earliest works to the narrative power of his mature paintings, Mantegna’s art remained vivid and heroic, dramatic and emotional. They are also painted in stunning detail: pebbles, blades of grass, veins, and hair are rendered with excruciating care, and he depicted even in his great narrative works the mundane particulars of earthly existence, showing laundry hanging out to dry and buildings fallen into disrepair. He had a deep interest…
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William Morris: Un motif est soit vrai soit faux…Il n’est pas plus fort que son point le plus faible
Exposition: William Morris and the Arts & Crafts movement in Great Britain Date: 22 Février − 20 Mai 2018 Lieu: Musée national d’art de Catalogne | Barcelone Espagne William Morris est né le 24 mars 1834 à Walthamstow. Rien dans son enfance ne laissait penser qu’il grandirait pour devenir un être d’exception. Son père était l’associé d’une maison de change prospère et la famille continua à vivre une situation confortable même après son décès en 1847. L’enfance de Morris fut heureuse sans être pour autant exceptionnelle. A l’âge de treize ans, il fut envoyé à l’université de Marlborough. Il s’agissait à l’époque d’une nouvelle école quelque peu laxiste sur la discipline. Cela…
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