4th Master Paintings Week
London, 06/28/12 Once again the Master Paintings Week takes the heart of Mayfair and St. James in London with the presence of 23 galleries, including this year's addition of Haldane Fine Art, Noortman Master Paintings and Theo Johns Fine Art Ltd. The fair has its culmination in the auctions that offer Bonhams – July 4 –, Christie's – at the headquarters of King...
The 'Lucas' in the collection of José Lázaro Galdiano
Segovia, 06/26/12 Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1818-1870) is recognized as one of the romantic painters who best represent the goyesque universe in the nineteenth century. This exhibition is a double tribute to father and son – Eugenio Lucas Villamil (1858-1918) - and can be considered his first monographic. The story of the "Lucas" is linked to that of José...
Murillo and Neve: elective affinities
Madrid, 06/25/12 Canon of the Cathedral of Seville, patron and friend of Murillo (1617-1682), Justino de Neve (1625-1685) was one of the protagonists of the Baroque Seville. An intellectual who promoted major projects in the cathedral of Seville, and new foundations such as the Hospital of the Venerable and the rebuilding of Santa María la Blanca, besides being...
Rediscovering Manuel Benedito
Madrid, 06/22/12 Manuel Benedito (Valencia, 1875 - Madrid, 1963) was one of the most famous artists of mid-century in Spain. A versatile and productive painter formed at the Escuella de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia and in the studio of Joaquín Sorolla in Madrid, who combined, in his beginnings, the participation in National Exhibitions with works as...
'Utopia is possible' or, at least, exists
Barcelona, 06/21/12 From October 14 to 16 of 1971 took place in Sant Miquel beach from Ibiza the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), organized by the Agrupació of Design Industrial Foment of Decorative Arts (ADI / FAD .). An event that originally appears to be a professional meeting, became an unprecedented event in...
Vladímir Lébedev (1891–1967)
Cuenca, 06/19/12 Formed in St. Petersburg, after the national revolution of 1917 that led to the establishment of the Soviet regime, Vladímir Lébedev is recognized as one of the cartel masters of the new Russian culture. His compositions from the early 1920, based on traditional woodcuts lubki, produced for the northern regional office of the ROSTA -Soviet...
The Russian exile of the 'rejected'
Amsterdam, 06/18/12 Rupture, reaction antiacademicism ... The Impressionist movement is interpreted as a response to the Classicism of the Salon, the established genres and artists of the neoclassical tradition – such as Laurens or Gérôme, among others - after the generation of the Romantics and the Barbizon School. This is the usual narrative of the process. Now,...
'From Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery'
London, 06/14/12 The Courtauld Institute has one of the most important collections of drawings in Britain. A set that is rarely shown and can now be seen in its minimal essence with this exhibition organized in collaboration with the Frick Collection of New York. The exhibition opens with a group of fifteenth-century works – like an exquisite and rare Flemish...
Chevalier d'Eon: a transvestite gentleman of the XVIIIth century
London, 06/11/12 Painted in 1792 and lost since 1926, the portrait of the Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810) by Thomas Stewart (1758-1801) is on display at the National Portrait Gallery from June 6, after the rediscovery of the work by the antiquarian Philip Mould. Chevalier d'Eon began his career as a French soldier and came to London in 1762 as part of the French...
Steve McCurry's eye
Girona, 06/11/12 A distant country, an unknown conflict unknown, one gaze and a shot ... The result is well known to all of us, The Afghan Girl (1984), one of the most popular and iconic photographs of the last century, the most famous cover for National Geographic. Many people do not know who is Steve McCurry (Philadelphia, 1950) but, however, they recognize...
The late Raphael claims his own place at the Prado
Madrid, 06/11/12 Raphael returns to the fore in the Prado. After years relegated from the room 12 by Velazquez, he captures everyone's attention in the temporary rooms of the museum. The Late Rafael shows the final works of the master painted during his last seven years in Rome and reviews the authorship of some of them. The exhibition also examines the...
Adrian Tyler: 'Dust to Dust'
Madrid, 06/07/12 Photography as vanitas is the title of the essay by Francisco Calvo Serraller (Madrid, 1948) that accompanies the edition of the catalog of Dust to Dust, the latest project of photographer Adrian Tyler (London, 1963) which is displayed in Caylus Gallery from May 23. A text that defines the "revealing gaze" of this artist that, at this time, has...
I International Biennial of Casablanca
Casablanca, 06/05/12 Next week wil be inaugurated the I International Biennial of Casablanca (BIC), – from June 15 to 30 –, with the participation of more than 250 artists from 25 countries. A major project that for the first time, will give an account of the international art scene from Moroccan ties with major contemporary trends in the five continents. A natural...
Kirchner: Freedom, Spontaneity and Authenticity
Madrid, 06/04/12 The exhibition Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) opened on May 25 at the headquarters of the foundation in the Paseo Recoletos 23, consists of 135 works – including oils, works on paper and sculptures – that offer an anthological view that covers all the artist's production in five sections. A review unprecedented in our country, that gives...