Artisti e Opere

Lovely and delicate the work of the Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita, capable of creating installations and sculptures by working through contrasts of shadow and light refraction and games. Kumi Yamashita’s art functions as the visible reminder of invisible art. From simple beginnings, she invites us to reassess the unpredictable relationship between what we expect to […]

CHI/WHO: Johannes Vermeer COSA/WHAT: “Lezione di Musica” / ‘The Music Lesson’ (c.1662-5) DOVE/WHERE: The Royal Collection, London  The Music Lesson (or Gentleman and Lady at the Virginal) is an oil painting on canvas 74 x 64.5 cm built around 1662 by the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer. The work is preserved at the Royal Collections at […]

Nick Gentry is a British artist. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials. His art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology, identity and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media. He is best known for his floppy disk paintings and film […]

For the 55th Venice Biennale, Danh Vo has imported a colonial-era Catholic Church from Vietnam. The Church, built roughly two hundred years ago, embodies the melding of traditions that permeates many aspects of Vietnamese religious and cultural life: its architecture and  decorative motifs combine typically Vietnamese elements with more Western ones. The ruins of the […]

Montague Dawson – Rounding Cape Horn (1959) Montague Dawson (1895–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. Montague Dawson was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter Henry Dawson (1811–1878). […]

London Elena Romanova creates vibrant watercolor drawings, portraying the cityscapes of some of the largest and most important cities in the world. She manages to create order out of splashes of dripping watercolors, and makes it easy to recognize such world-wide known monuments as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New […]

CHI/WHO: sconosciuto/ unknown COSA/WHAT: “Augusto di Prima Porta” o “Augusto loricato” / “Augustus of Prima Porta” or “Augustus loricato” DOVE/WHERE: Musei Vaticani, Roma / Vaticans Museums, Rome Statue of Augustus called “Augustus of Prima Porta” or “Augustus loricato”, preserved in the Vatican Museums. It ‘a Roman statue depicting the Emperor Augustus. 2.04 meters high, is […]

By chance I found the website of a great Italian artist. His images are stunning and I can not find adequate words to present it, then read you a few lines of presentation tovate on his website. “My characters are imbued with fear.   The continuous relate with other individuals exhausted them, they have lost […]

Thomas Doyle is an artist living and working in New York. His medium is typically sculpture. He creates miniature environments with small-scale models. His work is often sealed under glass and the works depict the remnants of things past  or the quieter moments. The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time […]

Fabian Oefner (born 1984, Switzerland) is a photographer and artist, whose work moves between the fields of art and science.  His aim is to present the unseen and poetic facets of our natural world and to invite us to stop for a moment and appreciate the magic that constantly surrounds us. Fabian Oefner (nato nel […]

Leggi il mio articolo aggiornato Bernardo Bellotto: 5 cose da sapere sulla sua vita CHI/WHO: Bernardo Bellotto COSA/WHAT: Veduta del Canal Grande e della Dogana / View of the Grand Canal and the Dogana (about 1740), Oil on canvas DOVE/WHERE: The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Getty Center Los Angeles Bernardo Bellotto was the nephew of Canaletto, […]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 – 1905) was a French academic painter and traditionalist. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist and during his life he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was […]