The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, one of the largest and most visited museums in the world, is expanding thanks to the substantial legacy, consisting of 455 works, donated from the collection of Carlo del Bravo who died in 2017. Donation that took place, three years after his death, thanks to Lorenzo Gnocchi, his pupil and universal heir; he too, like Del Bravo, a professor at the Florentine university. The donation ...
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I have always been attracted by the representation of realistic alternative beauty made up of elderly people, disproportionate bodies or eccentric people, the so-called "strange", so far from the canonical representation of ideal beauty. The art of Christiaan Conradie, who sees the elderly as the protagonists of his works, fascinated me because of this. An artist originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Christiaan Conradie was a member of the RVCA's Artist ...
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The giant sculpture "appeared", literally, one morning during Miami Art Week on the corner of 5th Street in Wynwood, is the work of Danish artist Thomas Dambo. Away from the hustle and bustle of 2nd Avenue, the work has been implemented since July 2019 and then moved to its final location. Dambo is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and has a graffiti artist background. After presenting ...
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Great protagonist of the twentieth century art scene, in the period between the two wars, Felice Casorati represents an emblematic figure in the history of Italian art. Born in Novara in 1883, after graduating in law, he decided to devote himself completely to painting, which had taken the place of music in his heart after the nervous breakdown that studying had caused him. Casorati was for a long time considered ...
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There are those who define him as a hyper-realist artist or photo-realist and those who define him as surrealist, what is certain is that Jeremy Geddes prefers to withdraw from every category by proceeding in the way of representing his mental states "in a slow way", as he says. New Zealand-born artist Jeremy Geddes lives in Australia where he graduated from The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Not ...
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Las Tres Hermanas by Belin, 2017. Oil and acrylic on panel, 130x180 cm. Wandering around the artistic neighborhoods of many cities I often find myself considering how the skill, technique and creativity of street artists far exceed that of some contemporary artists quoted on the art market. Some artists are extremely good and innovative in technique, as documented last week with the bas-relief sculpture by VHILS, others are in style. This ...
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Lover of the juxtaposition between realism and abstraction Jeremy Winborg is a contemporary American artist. In his paintings you can learn about the history and tradition of Native Americans who love to represent faithfully with original costumes and objects. Winborg began drawing as a child in her illustrator father's studio and instead began to portray Native Americans after the birth of her Navajo-born niece Layla. His artistic production is composed of ...
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Miami Niche invites you to follow, tonight at 5:00 ET PM (le 2:00pm PT) Charles Miano and Pierre Guidetti who will talk about composition, technique and quality of Sennelier pastels, presenting the exclusive @sennelier1887, MIANO Master "Red Chalks" set. Don't miss them on Instagram Live on @artsavoirfaire. Charles Miano and Pier Guidetti are two characters who are both funny and competent at the same time and who not only have ...
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Robert Liberace is considered one of the most talented contemporary American artists. He has participated in several editions of FACE-Figurative Art Convention and Expo- and this year will be the icing on the cake of the 22nd edition of the Portrait Society of America, from which he received his first prize, the Grand Prize Award, in 2003 and with which in a few days, August 27 from 4:30 pm to ...
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An exponent of a modest art form associated with bourgeois circles, Balthasar Denner (1696 - 1749) succeeded in inserting himself in the contexts dominated by German court art of the 18th century thanks to the portraits of elderly people depicted in detail. Born in Antona (the second largest city in Denmark, which was annexed at the time) Balthasar Denner was a German portrait painter who began his career as a ...
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