Flemish painting and the conquest of reality

Monday July 11th, 2022 , Schools & Periods

FLEMISH PAINTING AND THE CONQUEST OF REALITY

There is a moment in the history of art when something extraordinary happens.
It is that moment when we pass from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, that phase in which Flemish painting begins to describe reality.

When did this epochal transition occur? Who was the first to realise that art should not only describe the sacred, but could show the real world?
The answers to these questions can be found in this post written by Adele Pelazza.

the conquest of reality

Colour and energy in the works of Beatrice Zagato

Sunday July 10th, 2022 , Artists and Works

COLOUR AND ENERGY IN THE WORKS OF BEATRICE ZAGATO

Launching a message of positivity, this is the meaning of Beatrice Zagato’s works and the initiative launched by Sita Murt/.
A collaboration combining art and a well-known Spanish brand united by the desire to spread beauty while respecting the environment.

Influenced by Catalan modernism, Madeline Gins and Jagoda Buich, among others, Beatrice Zagato believes that art should spread as far as possible in the world, reach everyone in the world and infect the Planet with the joy of living.

The works of Beatrice Zagato

The Della Mazza Church in Palermo is reborn

Saturday July 9th, 2022 , Cities of Art, Museums

THE CHIESA DELLA MAZZA IS REBORN IN PALERMO

The Della Mazza Church in Palermo is reborn with its recovered 17th-century picture gallery and two exceptional altarpieces by Adrian Ghenie.

The Della Mazza Church

Tales of light and colour in the works of Giuseppe Flangini

Friday July 8th, 2022 , Artists and Works

Giuseppe Flangini, Il faro di Ostenda

TALES OF LIGHT AND COLOUR IN THE WORKS OF GIUSEPPE FLANGINI

It is the tales of light and colour that prevail in the works of Giuseppe Flangini, who has left his mark on the history of art.
He was born in Verona, the first of five children, on 12 October 1898 to Silvio and Maria Sterza, a teacher, daughter of Alessandro Sterza, mathematician and inventor of the acetylene lamp, gold medal winner at the Brussels Exposition of 1897.

Dramatist, ceramist, illustrator as well as painter, Giuseppe Flangini had important relationships with the major artists of his time.

The works of Giuseppe Flangini

Tibet in the works of Han Yuchen

Thursday July 7th, 2022 , Artists and Works

Han Yuchen, Fratello e sorella – Brother and sister, 2015. Olio su tela / Oil on canvas

TIBET IN THE WORKS OF HAN YUCHEN

Han Yuchen was born in 1954 in Jilin and trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He is considered one of the great masters of oil painting in contemporary China.

A scholar and poet as well as a painter, Han Yuchen’s works are in the traditional line of ink painting on paper and calligraphy according to ancient usage, while also appropriating a typically Western technique such as oil painting.

The works of Han Yuchen