“Vento preistorico dalle montagne gelate” by Mario Merz
Artist: Mario Merz (Italy) Title: Vento preistorico dalle montagne gelate [Prehistoric Wind from the Frozen Mountains] Year: 1967 USEFUL LINKS: Mario Merz in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Mario Merz (Italy) Title: Vento preistorico dalle montagne gelate [Prehistoric Wind from the Frozen Mountains] Year: 1967 USEFUL LINKS: Mario Merz in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Fernand Léger (France) Title: “Two Women Holding Flowers” (left, 1954), “The Acrobat and his Partner” (right, 1948) Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Two Women Holding Flowers is a large oil on canvas painting by French artist Fernand Léger, made in […]
Artist: Francis Picabia (France) Title: Otaïti Year: 1930 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Picabia’s so-called ‘transparency’ paintings – of which Otaïti is a prime example – have not been the subject of much technical analysis, until now. Otaïti appears to be unique in […]
Artist: Marisa Merz (Italy) Title: Untitled (Little shoe) Year: 1968 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Nylon and paraffin (60 × 195 × 135 mm)…” Keep on reading USEFUL LINKS: Marisa Merz in this blog | Wikipedia SPECIALE LONDRA 2022
Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spain) Title: Autumnal Cannibalism Year: 1936 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Two faceless figures are devouring each other. As their heads and bodies merge, they dig knives and spoons into each other’s flesh. The surrounding landscape is Empordà, in Catalonia, […]
Artist: Nicolás García Uriburu (Argentina) Title: Portfolio (Manifesto) Year: 1973 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “6 screenprints on paper (Image, each: 762 × 565 mm)…” Keep on reading USEFUL LINKS: Nicolás García Uriburu in this blog | Wikipedia SPECIALE LONDRA 2022
Artist: Paul Delvaux (Belgium) Title: Sleeping Venus Year: 1944 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Delvaux’s painting combines classical elements with a troubling atmosphere. Set against a night sky, the town, with its temples lined with horses’ heads, is populated with female nudes, a […]
Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Switzerland) Title: Hour of the Traces Year: 1932 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The fragile construction of this sculpture suggests the mysteries of the unconscious mind. The cage-like structure supports delicate organic forms. The upper shapes have been seen as skeletal […]
Artist: Jackson Pollock (USA) Title: Birth Year: 1963-4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Pollock explored mythic themes in his early paintings, having undergone Jungian analysis. He was among a group of New York artists open to the Surrealist ideas of repressed unconscious impulses. […]
Artist: Enrico Baj (Italy) Title: Fire! Fire! Year: 1963–4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Baj’s works were influenced by the absurd humour and unconventional techniques of surrealism and dada. He was also associated with CoBrA, a group of European artists who adopted a […]
Artist: Francis Picabia (France) Title: The Handsome Pork-Butcher Year: c.1924–6, c.1929–35 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects such as combs, needles, curtain rings and […]
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (USA) Title: Whaam! Year: 1963 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Whaam! 1963 is a large, two-canvas painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that takes its composition from a comic book strip. The left-hand canvas features an American fighter […]
Artist: Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Title: Still Life Year: 1946 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Still Life is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Giorgio MorandiIn this work, Morandi uses a muted colour palette that ranges from light and medium grey […]
Artist: Henry Moore (UK) Title: Three Points Year: 1939–40, cast before 1949 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Moore kept up with the activities of the Surrealist’s in Paris. He also contributed to the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Several of his works explore […]
Artist: André Fougeron (France) Title: Atlantic Civilisation Year: 1953 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Atlantic Civilisation is Fougeron’s key work of social criticism and an extraordinary example of Cold War rhetoric. Fougeron caricatures the Americanisation of Europe, then a major target of Communist […]
Artist: Carol Rama (Italy) Title: Fase del Nero (Black Phase) Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Fase del Nero (Black Phase) 1974 is a work on black fabric made by the Italian artist Carol Rama using several rubber inner tubes that have […]
Artist: Michael Buthe (Germany) Title: White Painting Year: 1969 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “It might look like the artist has randomly slashed this canvas. In fact, Buthe carefully composed it. He wanted to create a powerful relationship between the grid of the […]
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Cage (1) – (6) Year: 2006 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cage (1) – (6) 2006 is a group of six large, square abstract paintings by the German artist Gerhard Richter. Three of the canvases measure 2900 x […]
Artist: Christian Schad (Germany) Title: Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (left, 1929) | Self-Portrait (right, 1927) Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove 1929 is a large portrait-orientated oil painting of two […]
Artist: Bram Bogart (Belgium) Title: White Plane White Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “White Plane White 1974 is a large monochrome white painting by Bram Bogart in which a thick layer of paint has been applied to the surface of the support and […]
Artist: Robert Indiana (USA) Title: Love Year: 1970 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in […]
Artist: Paul Kos (USA) Title: Glacier Golf Year: 1982 USEFUL LINKS: Paul Kos in this blog | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation | Wikipedia
Luogo: Tate Modern » Londra Titolo: Andy Warhol Dal 12 marzo al 6 settembre 2020 Comunicato stampa: Andy Warhol era il figlio di immigrati che divenne un’icona americana. Un timido gay che è diventato il fulcro della scena sociale di New York. Un artista che ha abbracciato il […]
Luogo: Palazzo Roverella >> Rovigo Artista: Marc Chagall Titolo: Anche la mia Russia mi amerà Curatore: Claudia Zevi Dal 4 aprile 2020 al 5 luglio 2020 Comunicato stampa: Palazzo Roverella propone una nuova, importante esposizione monografica su Marc Chagall. Una selezione esemplare di oltre cento opere, circa 70 […]
Luogo: Hauser & Wirth >> St. Moritz Artista: Alexander Calder Titolo: Calder Dal 13 dicembre 2019 al 9 febbraio 2020 Comunicato stampa: Calder è stato uno degli artisti più influenti e pionieristici del XX secolo, avendo trasformato la natura stessa della scultura per aver introdotto la quarta dimensione […]
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