Artist Portraits
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Pilot Who Wrote the Skies
Aug 23, 2024
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8 minutes read
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the celebrated French writer and aviator best known for The Little Prince, made a profound impact with his poetic and philosophical works, blending his aviation experiences with literary insight, and his legacy endures through numerous exhibitions and tributes worldwide.
Art History
AI: as of today, is painting dead?
Jul 5, 2023
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8 minutes read
Do you remember when the French painter born in 1797 Paul Delaroche, faced with the rise of the photographic medium, declared: as of today, painting is dead?...
Art History
Saving the planet: the strategies of contemporary art
Feb 27, 2022
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5 minutes read
Ecological art, born in the nineties of the twentieth century, represents an artistic genre moved by the purpose of denouncing the global environmental crisis, through a strong exhortation to the protection, preservation and restoration of life forms and resources of the earth. This tendency pervades with force the contemporary art, which has provided the above mentioned genre with new and original points of view...
Art History
Pollution in art: Turner, Monet and Boccioni "forerunners" of environmental art
Feb 5, 2023
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9 minutes read
The nineteenth- and twentieth-century reality, as told by artists, who, like Turner, Monet and Boccioni, documented, without any pretense of ecological denunciation, worthy of the more contemporary Environmental Art, Land Art and Ecological Art...