Bodegones: Spanish still life painting

This post is a short tour of Spanish still life paintings. It is inevitable that I am biased by my

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The Philosopher’s Conquest – A painting by Giorgio de Chirico

Introduction “One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, not only the great questions one has always asked oneself

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Painting London’s Waterloo Bridge

Introduction It was 1995 and I was living in Kingston upon Thames, a stone’s throw from the river. My job

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Two Masters of Light: Claude Lorrain and J.M.W. Turner

An enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon.A detail from JMW Turner’s “Slave-Ship”. Painting

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Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski) revisited

Parenthesis: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a Balthus Exhibition “Cats and Girls“(September 25, 2013–January 12, 2014). 

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Death and the Maiden: from Munch to Abramovic

Some time ago I wrote about one of the most stunning and moving themes in the work of Edward Munch: The

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Stations of the Cross: Giandomenico Tiepolo, San Polo Church, Venice Italy and Art Institute, Chicago USA

Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was the son of Giambattista Tiepolo, a master of painting. He never achieved the status and fame

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International Womens’ Day: 8th March 2012 – Διεθνης Ημερα της Γυναικας: 8η Μαρτιου 2012

L’amour, la folie Order of the day, from Bonaparte, First Counsul, to his guard: “Greadier Gobain has committed suicide for

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Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas (The Letters of …)

Today I travel to Mexico, to join the Great Mexican Painter Frida Kahlo. My aircraft is Martha Zamora’s compilation of

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Emilio Vedova – Italian Artist

During my recent visit to Venice, I was lucky to discover the Italian artist – painter, Emilio Vedova, who impressed

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