During my recent visit to Venice, I was lucky to discover the Italian artist – painter, Emilio Vedova, who impressed
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Titian's Pieta: The master of light … plunges into darkness
I borrowed half of the title of today’s post from an article by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian. As Jones
Continue readingByzantium in Venice: Stelios Faitakis' Imposition Symphony (2011)
The Greek painter Stelios Faitakis has painted a mural for the Danish Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale. It is
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A Cretan Madonna in Venice: Mesopanditissa in Santa Maria della Salute (Saint Mary of Health)
Edited on the 20th August 2024 The ties between Byzantium and Venice are centuries’ old. One of the major components
Continue readingJenny Saville, Painter
Back in 2010, I wrote on painting the human body. One of the artists whose works I included in the post
Continue readingAurora – Dawn – Χαραμα
The landscape is barren. There are a few burned trees. But the symphony of colors enveloping the tortured landscape is beautiful, almost
Continue readingReal Greece – Part IV: Aegean Sculpture – A Church in the village of Marpissa, Paros, Greece
I was for a few days on the island of Paros, Greece, where one night I saw under the weak
Continue readingAlain Resnais' and Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"
‘I remember Hiroshima’ ‘You remember nothing’ “You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.” ” I saw everything. Everything.” It has been
Continue reading1001 Ways to Die – (7) Cy Twombly, American, Painter and Sculptor
Cy Twombly, one of my favourite modern artists, has died on Tuesday, 5th July 2011 in Rome, Italy, losing a long battle
Continue readingIntoxicating pleasures, deformities and disproportions: The Female in decorative arts and music
Introduction “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating
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