Elliott Erwitt: Kolor

Elliott Erwitt | Showgirls

Elliott Erwitt, USA. Las Vegas, Nevada. 1957. Showgirls.

PHOTOS BY ELLIOTT ERWITT: KOLOR

You’ve already understood that I do love photography, and I often talk about the life, the loves and the passions of the greatest photographers of the past and of the present.
From the great love between Robert Capa and Gerda Taro up to Robert Mapplethorpe’s provocations, the great protagonists of photography fascinate me, and I can’t miss any exhibition dedicated to them!

The exhibition I’ll talk about in this post is Kolor, the first great retrospective exhibition of colour images which the famous photographer Elliott Erwitt selected from his two great colour projects, Kolor and The Art of André S. Solidor.

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Art Deco: a lifestyle

Vaso Gio Ponti | Art Deco

Gio Ponti, La casa degli Efebi, 1924-1925, Richard-Ginori.

ART DECO: A LIFESTYLE CALLED DECO

Art Deco exploded as a style which characterized a specific period of time, the 1920s.
It’s not an artistic movement, but a lifestyle, capable of influencing all the aspects of the existence, from clothes to home accessories, from ceramic plates to shapes of motorcars, from furnishings to jewellery.

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Keith Haring: things to know

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5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT KEITH HARING

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on May 4th 1958.
From 1976 to 1978 he studied commercial art in Pittsburgh, and then at the age of 19 he moved to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts. Arrived in New York, Haring began to draw graffiti and murals, becoming famous in the city.

His style, characterised by stick men, vivid colours and bold lines, soon became recognisable, and the images of his works and his basic characters spread even outside the township line of New York.

READ ALSO: Keith Haring in Milan.

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