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Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965.
He studied Fine Arts at the Goldsmith College in London, and in 1988, while he was still a student, conceived and curated “Freeze”, a group exhibition which was the launching point for his artistic career and for a whole generation of artists called Young British Artists (o YBA).
READ ALSO: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Damien Hirst exhibition in Venice.
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The Fourth Estate is the result of a long journey by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, who for the first time in the history of Italian art represents the rise of the labour movement in the social life of the country and does so as if it were inevitable.
The work is kept in Milan and I recommend you go and see it as soon as you can because Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, an exponent of the pointillist movement, presented The Fourth Estate at the Quadriennale in Turin in 1902 and it has since become a symbol of the workers’ struggle.
The work was actually originally entitled The Workers’ Way, but at the last moment the artist decided to change it to what we all know today.
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On the wall of the Church of Sant’Antonio Abate, in Pisa, there’s the last public work painted by Keith Haring.
It’s a large mural painted in 1989, entitled Tuttomondo (Allworld – The Pisa’s Mural ) and dedicated to universal peace.
You know how much I like Keith Haring.
I visited the exhibition “Keith Haring. About art” in Milan with great enthusiasm, like a child in the playground, and feeling the excitement of going to a rock concert.
Because Keith Haring is the artist who, more than others, can interpret my life and express my desire for happiness.
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Fernando Botero is an artist much beloved by the public, but much less by critics.
Artist of Colombian origin, famous and popular all over the world, anyone can recognise his paintings, because he depicts fat men and women.
His painting style is unmistakable, and rejected by several critics, who define his images infantile and commercial.
But others keep claiming the opposite, defining him one of the greatest artists of our time.
But which are the most famous works by Fernando Botero?
In this post I’ll show you an array of his most important paintings.
READ ALSO: The most beautiful cities in the world: 5 birth places of important painters to see.
Armand Guillaumin, Tramonto ad Ivry, 1873, Museo d’Orsay – iImage source: it.wikipedia.org
On April 15th 1874 in a photographer’s studio at 35 boulevard des Capucines the first Impressionist exhibition was presented.
I wrote the details of the importance and the consequences of that event in a post in which I explained what Impressionism is.
That exhibition was only the beginning for some young artists who painted in a different way from the past.
For centuries artists painted “dal vero” and then finished their works inside their studio. On the contrary, the Impressionists painted in the open air, “en plein air”.
Who are the impressionist painters?
In this post their names and their main works.
