Who was Mariano Fortuny: artist, stylist and designer

Friday April 7th, 2023 , Artists and Works

Fortuny Venezia @Fotografie di Massimo Listri

Who was Mariano Fortuny, the artist who was an accomplished stylist but also a renowned designer? He was decidedly multifaceted, this Spanish artist who decided to live in Venice and who went on to conquer the world from his amazing house-museum.

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo was born in Granada, at the foot of the Alhambra, on 11 May 1871, the second son of Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838-1874), acclaimed Spanish painter, and Cecilia de Madrazo y Garreta (1846-1932), daughter of Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815- 1894), director of the Prado Museum.

Who was Mariano Fortuny: artist, stylist and designer

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: tickets and visit

Thursday April 6th, 2023 , Museum Tickets

New York is one of the most important and well-known cities in the United States and the world, and for many, a trip to the Big Apple is an experience of discovering a place and a way of life so distinctive that they have become iconic.

There are many museums in New York not to be missed: for the works of art they house, some of the most representative of modern and contemporary art, but also for their architecture, in some cases itself a work of art. This is certainly the case with the Whitney Museum of American Art, but also spaces such as the Guggenheim and MoMA. Here’s how to buy tickets and visit the halls at their best.

Tickets for a visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art

Surrealism as an artistic movement: characteristics

Wednesday April 5th, 2023 , Schools & Periods

Salvador Dalí, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages. 1936. Olio su tavola. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Purchase with the support of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation, the Rembrandt Association, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Erasmusstichting and Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht. Credit line photographer: Jannes Linders
© Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalì Foundation by SIAE 2023

Surrealism as an artistic movement is fundamentally dream and irrationality.
To describe its characteristics is to delve into a territory where reason is lost in the meanders of what is not rational, generating unexplored worlds.

These are the characteristics of Surrealism.

The Wonders of Art: from Renaissance to Baroque

Sunday April 2nd, 2023 , More than art

Image source: www.accademia.org

The Renaissance brought wonders to art. It was an artistic, cultural and intellectual movement that developed in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries, but whose main centre of development was Italy.
In the artistic context, the Renaissance was characterised by a strong focus on the rediscovery of classical antiquity and a greater expressiveness and realism in representations.

In this post, Adele Pelazza tells us about the characteristics of this particular moment in art history.

The Wonders of Art: From Renaissance to Baroque

The legendary photographs of Eve Arnold. The work, 1950-1980

Saturday April 1st, 2023 , Artists and Works

Eve Arnold on the set of ‘Becket’, England, 1963. Photo by Robert Penn

Eve Arnold’s photos were able to tell the story of the world with a personal approach, the only tool the American photographer considered indispensable.
To understand her importance in the history of photography, it is enough to remember that Eve Arnold was the first woman, together with Inge Morath, to join the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1951.

Determination, curiosity and, above all, the desire to escape from any stereotype or easy categorisation have enabled her to produce an eclectic body of work: from portraits of the great stars of the cinema and show business to investigative reportages where she has tackled themes and issues absolutely central to the public debate of yesterday and today.