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Qu’y-a-t-il de plus banal qu’une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, la moitié de l’humanité n’en connaît pas l’usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de consommation, comment oublier que nos arrière-grands-parents l’utilisaient pour les cérémonies...

Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions....

Esta colección de escultura propone una visión del arte occidental auténtica e innovadora que inicia en la antigüedad y acaba en el siglo XX. Aquí reunidas están las obras maestras más sensuales y harmoniosas además de las más provocativas y minimalistas. La escultura como actividad se caracteriza...

¿Qué se deduce sobre nuestra sociedad de las miles de imágenes de ropa interior moldeando cuerpos esculturales que vemos multiplicarse en vallas publicitarias y revistas? Muchas mujeres acuden a la lencería para complacer a los hombres. Sin embargo, ya desde tiempos inmemoriales las mujeres han...

Nacido a mediados del siglo, experimentó en toda su fuerza el drama del Renacimiento y de su guerra con la religión. Las tradiciones y valores medievales se estaban desintegrando para dar lugar al ingreso de la humanidad en un nuevo universo donde la fe pierde parte de su poder y mucho de su magia....

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed...

It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington’s art without thinking of the merely human elements. Remington became interested in the American Indian, probably because he became interested in the active, exciting life of the American Great Plains. The Indian appealed to him not in any histrionic...

Ever since its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau has continued to inspire artists. The movement offered an artistic response to the industrial revolution and the creative vacuum left in its wake, exerting a huge impact on the decorative arts. Art Nouveau spans all forms of expression...

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known...

The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities - it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued in Dessau, from 1925 to 1932, and finally ended in 1932-1933 in Berlin. Three leaders presided over the growth of the movement: Walter Gropius, from...

Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous...

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy concentration drawing spirals with a sense and meaning known only to himself. At other times, shunning...

In his works, Hopper poetically expressed the solitude of man confronted to the American way of life as it developed in the 1920s. Inspired by the movies and particularly by the various camera angles and attitudes of characters, his paintings expose the alienation of mass culture. Created using cold...

“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of Édouard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement? Without a doubt, this singularity was explained when, shortly before his death,...