Art History
Where do butterflies land?
Nov 14, 2023
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9 minutes read
Butterflies fly, everyone knows. They have also flown in some of the most famous masterpieces in the history of art, falling into the genres of landscape, still life, and portraiture...
Art History
Land art : art and nature finally reconciled ?
Mar 21, 2017
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2 minutes read
Born in the United States at the end of the 1960s in reaction against the established order, museum institutions, the mercantile and elitist character of art, Land art refers to all the artistic movements that use Nature as a place, a material and surface for the inscription of their work.
Art History
The desert between land art, painting and sculpture
Nov 6, 2022
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7 minutes read
The desert topical has been told through the point of view of land art, a contemporary art form that originated in the United States during the 1960s, which abandoned the boundaries of the traditional pictorial and sculptural medium...
Art News
NASA to land in Dubai for -ING Creative Festival
Mar 20, 2017
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3 minutes read
Pixar, Disney, National Geographic, MoMA, Google, Behance and more to be part of the event’s third edition
Artist Portraits
PHILIPPE PICQUART: The city, land of destruction and creation
Oct 2, 2019
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Photographer Philippe Picquart is interested in urban landscapes. But he does not hesitate to intervene in his black and white photos to offer a personal interpretation of the place.
Art News
Olafur Eliasson to make new land art on UK coast
Feb 28, 2023
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2 minutes read
In the Lake District, a novelist, Robert Macfarlane, has asked an artist to make a steel pool that looks like a mirror.
Art News
Mirages and Oasis, an exceptional land art exhibition in Saudi Arabia
Mar 11, 2022
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2 minutes read
The second edition of Desert X AlUla is held in the Al Mutadil Valley in Saudi Arabia.
Art News
Expansion work allows the creation of a rare work of land art!
Jul 6, 2023
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2 minutes read
The outdoor installation was first considered in 2003, but it was not built until the Italian artist reached the age of 90.
Art History
Traditional Chinese Landscapes
Jan 9, 2022
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6 minutes read
Landscape painting, known as Shan shui (mountain and water), deals with the highest, most widespread and appreciated theme of traditional Chinese art, in order to express the artist's feelings, ideas and spiritual conception, rather than a faithful reproduction of nature...
Art History
Landscape of Illusion
Oct 31, 2023
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8 minutes read
When we have the time to daydream a bit with our minds, I mean, on those rare occasions when we are not working, not in the company of people, or not glued to compulsive and intrusive electronic devices filled with images or videos...
Art History
Winter landscapes in art
Dec 7, 2021
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6 minutes read
Winter is the season in which the most important holiday is celebrated: Christmas! In this regard, the most famous artists in the history of art have not shirk from depicting the cold landscapes typical of this time of year, sometimes even through the use of allegories. The success of this topic is still found today, in fact, many works of contemporary art have often depicted snowy views...
Art History
Minimalist photography: the landscape genre
Jan 18, 2023
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9 minutes read
Before coming to the artistic investigation promoted by the photographic medium, it seems obvious to refer to that pictorial tradition, which, over the centuries, has sponsored the birth, development and affirmation of the best-known artistic genres, including the unfailing landscape theme...
Artist Portraits
Hennie van de Lande, intuition painting
Mar 13, 2022
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3 minutes read
Hennie van de Lande's art stems from the need to express her feelings, through works that are the pure expression of an almost meditative insight...
Art History
The Italian landscape in art history
Dec 17, 2021
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7 minutes read
Many famous works of art, executed between the Middle Ages and the 16th century, depicted the Italian landscape, just like the masterpieces of Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Antonello da Messina, Giorgione, Titian, Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci. Despite this, this pictorial genre has been configured independently, within the Western art, only from the seventeenth century...
Art History
Australian art: kangaroos, landscapes and contemporary artists
May 21, 2023
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8 minutes read
I thought I would entrust the narrative of the early years of Australian art, as well as its subsequent Europeanization, to the kangaroo, a symbolic animal of Oceania that will be used as a conduit between Aboriginal and Western figurative expression...
Pop Culture
David Lynch Sculpture Transforms Santa Monica Landscape
Apr 4, 2024
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2 minutes read
A towering 6,4 meter (21-foot) mirrored metal sculpture of director David Lynch, crafted by Czech artist David Černý, has been unveiled in Santa Monica, capturing the essence of Lynch's connection to Prague and cinema.
Art News
An olfactory exhibition at the Prado Museum makes us discover the perfume emerging from a lush landscape by Jan Brueghel
Apr 8, 2022
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2 minutes read
Prado Museum in Madrid has recreated 10 aspects of Jan Brueghel's painting for an olfactory exhibition. Researchers discovered 80 plants and flowers in the Flemish Master's painting.