It’s coming up: Art Basil – time. Time to book your ticket for Switzerland, if you haven’t yet, is today. The world league art show in Basil will start June 14, 2011, and continue till June 19. As per previous years, Art Basil has a wide range of contemporary art disciplines that it aims to […]
Salvador Dali Museum
January 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The US art community can rejoice: a renewed Salvador Dalí museum (nicknamed, ‘the Dalí’) has just opened on its new premises: 1 Dalí Blvd, St. Petersburg, Florida, this January 11,’11 at 11:11. The Dalí’ Museum, A New Era In line with Dali’s amazing sense of lines and space, the museum is an amazing structure […]
Francis Bacon Painting Sale
March 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Did you read CBC News today? Things like this just makes me sad. A painting by Francis Bacon or any other artist of $40 million is only worth $40 million if someone is willing to pay $40 million. Such is the nature of an art auction. It would seem reasonable for Christie to offer to […]
Rene Magritte’s Surrealism: Meticulous, Witty Illusions
November 21, 2008 by Leave a Comment
“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”. Who has not heard of the text on this very famous painting, ‘La Trahison des Images’? It was painted by the Belgium surrealist pioneer, René Magritte. La Trahison des Images Rene Magritte Exactly two years ago I was lucky to see a wonderful show at the Los Angeles County Museum […]
History of Surreal Photography
May 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Surrealism in photography was one of the major revolutionary changes in the evolution of photography. Rather than art, photography was reviewed as a copying effort. Surrealism is the introduction of the ‘more than real’ images to the art forms. Surrealism was a movement in the art and intellectual activities, emerged after World War I. Andre […]
The Life and Art of Paul Gauguin
March 2, 2008 by Leave a Comment
French painter Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and then moved to Peru with his family when he was only three years old. Growing up in Peru provided much excitement and had a great impact on him as little boy. When he turned 17, he joined the Navy and went to […]
Joan Miró – Video Showing His Paintings
February 12, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Picasso is not the only world-famous artist that Spain produced. Joan Miró (1893-1983) was another Spanish artist of world influencing impact. Like Picasso, Miró was apainter, sculptor, and ceramist. He was born in Barcelona. Miró’s surrealistiic art work has been interpreted as a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a […]
Salvador Dali Art – Surrealism At Its Best And Weirdest
January 14, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Biography of Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali Whether you are a fan of the eccentric Salvador Dali or not, most everyone agrees his work is brilliant in its scope and intense imagination. Salvador Dali started his life as a reincarnation of his brother also named Salvador. At the age of 5 Dali was taken to his […]
