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  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    Please Deceive Me

    July 30, 2013 / 0 Comments

    We love trickery. Or rather, we love the quest for innovation, the unexpected, and the impossible. When the impossible turns out to be, well, impossible, then we settle for illusion. What better way to explain the success of Harry Houdini, David Blaine, David Copperfield, and illusion within photography (check out the Huffington Post for some really trippy images)? Of course, Photoshop is the bee’s knees, or so they say, when it comes to manipulating an image to give you a photo which deceives the eye and makes you say Wow! Or is it?

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    January 31, 2018

    色粉画的艺术:从德加到雷东

    October 27, 2017
    Motel à l’Ouest (Western Motel), 1957

    La solitude poétique de l’homme confrontée à « l’American way of life » chez Hopper

    December 2, 2022
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Don’t just do something – sit there.

    January 24, 2013 / 0 Comments

    In theory yoga is this beautiful, wonderful, spiritual experience that is meant to cleanse mind, body, and soul. In practice yoga causes a slew of frowned upon words to come flying out of my mouth at record speeds. It is a deep, dark torture which we, as masochists, inflict upon ourselves day after day of shaking cores, trembling arms, and ready-to-collapse legs. We stretch ourselves in ways we never thought possible, only to discover they are possible, but will we be stuck this way forever? The idea of sitting still long enough to have my portrait painted makes my muscles ache in a way that I’ve only known through Downward-Facing…

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    Caillebotte

    October 9, 2012

    Rubens: El Padre Spiritual de Botero

    January 31, 2018

    Forensic Architecture:探索美学

    November 13, 2017
  • Art Exhibition,  Français

    Avec ou sans Formes ?

    November 8, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Un corps parfait. C’est ce que prône la mode du XXIᵉ siècle. À l’époque où la maigreur est de mise, où le naturel tend à disparaître au profit du superficiel, où, à en observer les magazines et les mentalités, seules les femmes très minces sont considérées comme « belles », que penser des célèbres nus de Rubens ? Ces nus bien en chair, voluptueux, aux formes généreuses, ces corps d’une blancheur extrême mais surtout d’une sensualité sans précédent que le maître du Baroque prenait plaisir à réaliser ? Une adolescente penserait probablement  des Trois Grâces qu’elles sont : «  grasses ». Personnellement,  je pense que Rubens, par son talent et sa façon de peindre, a…

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    Ruskin – Modigliani: The Scandal of the Pubic Hair

    November 30, 2017

    Grand Exhibition: Rodin at the Met: The Power of Hands

    November 1, 2017

    佛罗伦萨的十六世纪意大利艺术:从米开朗基罗、彭托莫到詹博洛尼亚

    October 11, 2017
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    Rubens también se habría dejado seducir por el Photoshop

    October 5, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Aquí y ahora, me propongo romper una lanza a favor de la belleza alterada, esa que busca la perfección que resulta agradable a la vista. ¿Y a qué se debe mi repentino interés por esta falsedad y por qué la reivindico? En primer lugar, se me ha dado la oportunidad de hablar de Pedro Pablo Rubens, archiconocido por sus representaciones de mujeres rotundas y lozanas. En segundo lugar, porque a diario la prensa internacional recoge notas polémicas relacionadas con el Photoshop, esa herramienta que convierte a los diseñadores gráficos en dioses modeladores de la imagen. Veamos algunas de las más recientes. En respuesta a la petición impulsada por una joven…

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    Frida Kahlo

    Gebrochener Körper, unzerbrechlicher Geist – Die Geschichte von Frida Kahlo

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    Toulouse-Lautrec und die französische Can-Can

    February 26, 2018
    Frida Kahlo

    Un corps brisé, un esprit indestructible – L’histoire de Frida Kahlo

    December 5, 2025
  • Art Exhibition,  English

    Photoshopping and Photobombing…Peter Paul Rubens-Style!

    October 4, 2012 / 0 Comments

    When I open any magazine these days, I look at the photos of waif-like women with perfect skin, hair and teeth, without a jot of cellulite to be seen, and it’s what I expect to see.  I admit it!  The world of mass media has done its work very well indeed.  There is perhaps a handful of women who may be naturally blessed with the genetic make-up to look as flawless as those pictured on billboards without the help of Photoshop.   And that’s just it; technology such as Photoshop gives me expectations.  If I were to see an ad with the models remaining unaltered, I would be surprised.  It’s human…

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    Exhibition: “NSK from Kapital to Capital. Neue Slowenische Kunst”

    October 11, 2017
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Anglais, Proserpine, 1874.

    Porträts: Porträtmalerei und Atelierzeichnungen im Met in New York

    October 2, 2018

    The Pond-Like Qualities of Frida and Diego

    June 28, 2013
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