Sava Šumanović – A Tragic Painter In A White Suit
Life is only one sad nothing. – S. Šumanović Sava Šumanović’s life was brilliant, joyless, inspiring, sad, noble, tragic – all at once. This artist was born in 1896 in Continue reading
Movements
Takashi Murakami – Everything’s Melting
“In Japan, the line (between high and low) is less defined, both by the culture and by the post-war economic situation. Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be Continue reading
Still Lifes of Suzanne Valadon – Where No “Decent” Woman Would Tread
Much has been said on the nudes of Suzanne Valadon, and rightly so. Truly, they are wonderfully composed and naturally iconoclastic in nature. Women. Real women portrayed in natural scenarios Continue reading
Niki de Saint Phalle – Ready To Kill
In 1960 I was a very angry young woman. Angry at men and their power. I felt that they had robbed me of my own free space in which I Continue reading
François-Auguste-René Rodin – Father of Modern Sculpture
In front of the model, I work with the same desire to copy the truth as if I were making a portrait; I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself Continue reading
Kenzo Tange – Osaka’s Pride Shapes The World
” We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality’’ Born Continue reading
Impressionism – Paving the Way for Modern Art
As a first distinctly modern movement in painting, Impressionism emerged in Paris in 1860s, and the end developed chiefly in France during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gustave Continue reading
Petr Pavlensky – Extreme Performance Art
“I think that would have discredited everything I’d done before, if at the first sign of danger I’d gone into hiding. So I decided to take a position of strength, Continue reading
Suprematism Art Movement – What Is It?
I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting. – Alexander Rodchenko Suprematism still remains one Continue reading
Denouement – Dali Vs Drunken Dirty Hipsters
I had a friend tell me he didn’t like Dali. Fair enough right? It takes all kinds. Of course after a couple beers we can all get a little argumentative. Continue reading