Gross Domestic Product | Let's visit it together Banksy and his Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shop in Croydon, London. Today's post is about an experience I had last night that I don't think I'll easily forget. As soon as I left
Caravaggio David with the head of Goliath Caravaggio The David with the head of Goliath from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of those paintings that have long made people talk. The dubious attribution, in fact, has for a long
The Four Seasons Arcimboldo Summer. How this work arrived today at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (the city's art history museum) has not yet been discovered. What is sure is that this is not the only work of the Milanese artist
Alighiero Boetti Sign and drawing. The word in art Alighiero Boetti is one of the most precocious and eclectic members of theArte Povera. However, he distanced himself from the group in the early seventies. So as to be considered today one
Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds 2010 Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds. It's 2011 and one of my favorite museums is flooded with porcelain. The Tate Modern in London hosts the work Sunflower seeds Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The floor of the Turbine Hall
Penitent Magdalene by Donatello | The artist Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello, is one of the greatest Florentine sculptors. A prolific and versatile early Renaissance figure working in stone, metal, wood, terracotta and bronze. This innovative artist
After the Second World War, Lucio Fontana began to tell people about his concept of Spatialism. He observed that in many other areas of life, things are changing and being accelerated through machines and technologies, but that art hasn't changed
The history of art in colour: Red Red is the oldest colour. Though its tones range from the earthy reds of animals depicted on cave walls to the fiery reds of contemporary artwork – red is unquestionably an emotionally intense color.
Kandinsky's Composition VII. Kandinsky has the most important insight of his career into the years before the First World War. He works in Munich, Germany and develops a new painting language, which helps him to create original abstract paintings in
The Bather of Valpinçon by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is located at Louvre in Paris. In this nude, Ingres has created what is surely one of the greatest shoulder portraits in the history of art. A work with the perfect balance between
William Turner's The Valiant Témeraire from 1839 is one of my favorite landscape works by the English artist. And it's kept here in London at National Gallery, the city's collection of modern art. A vessel is being towed through the waters
Guernica by Pablo Picasso – Background Created by Pablo Picasso, the most famous artist of the 20th century, Guernica is an expression of Picasso's revulsion at the Nazi bombing of a Basque city in northern Spain (Guernica), ordered by the fascist
Portrait of the Arnolfini couple by Jan van Eyck. Who are the two protagonists of this famous painting? Why are they holding hands? Is the girl pregnant or does she just want to show us the dress? The details of
Allegory of Painting by Vermeer. An artist's studio in the middle of the seventeenth century that almost looks like a photograph. Everything gives the idea of being true. Yet it is not the story of an episode, nor the description
If there is one female artist who has changed the history of 20th century art all over the world, it is Frida Kahlo. An artist tied to the traditions and culture of her home country, Mexico. But who has made
