Watches inspired by works of art: Swatch X Centre Pompidou

Saturday March 12th, 2022 , More than art

WATCHES INSPIRED BY WORKS OF ART: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND COLLECTABLE ONES

The link between Swatch and art has always been strong.
Swatch has reproduced so many works of art that art has made its way out of museums, onto our wrists, and onto the streets all over the world.

Swatch has been a main partner of the Venice Art Biennale for many years and each time offers a special watch to collect, but it is also committed to supporting artists thanks to its decade-long experience at theSwatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai.
Discovering the new collection of watches inspired by the works of art at the Pompidou is not a surprise but a great confirmation.

watches inspired by works of art

Nature in art: from the Romantics to Segantini

Wednesday March 9th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions, Schools & Periods

Caspar David Friedrich, Donna sulla spiaggia di Rügen, 1818, circa olio su tela, cm 21.5 x 30 Kunst Museum Winterthur, Fondazione Oskar Reinhart © SIK-ISEA, Zurigo (Philipp Hitz)

NATURE IN ART: FROM THE ROMANTICS TO SEGANTINI

The representation of nature in art has always offered artists the opportunity to describe the world and our relationship with the planet we live on.

The history of art is full of works depicting beautiful landscapes, but it is also full of stories in which Nature and its elements are personified by deities, taken from classical culture, that allow us to understand our connection with the world.
I recently visited an exhibition (details at the bottom of this post) that took me on a journey of discovery of nature in art and offered me the chance to understand how nature became so important in the 19th century.

Nature in art

The works of Antonio Ligabue to know the man and the artist

Monday March 7th, 2022 , Artists and Works

Antonio Ligabue, Fattoria con animali

THE WORKS OF ANTONIO LIGABUE TO GET TO KNOW THE MAN AND THE ARTIST

Antonio Ligabue’s works are the tool of a man who wanted to communicate his pain and suffering to the world.
Judgments about his art have often been misleading and his works have been wrongly described as naïve or the work of an artist marked by madness.

In reality, he is a unique case in the art of the second half of the 20th century, but he is able to tell each of us something thanks to that cry in the silence of nature that seems to come out of his paintings. A cry that resonates in the deafness of the people around him.

The works of Antonio Ligabue

NFT and crypto art: 10 artists to follow

Saturday March 5th, 2022 , More than art

NFT AND CRYPTO ART: 10 ARTISTS TO FOLLOW

The NFT and crypto art sector has grown unstoppably in recent times, creating some important personalities in the industry who can be considered to be crypto art influencers.

These are artists who use social media to showcase their digital works and disseminate them to an ever wider audience.
They are true pioneers in interpreting the link between art and the metaverse and, according to a survey carried out by FLU PLUS, an integrated influencer marketing suite owned by FLU, the phenomenon is expanding to the point of involving museums and galleries: suffice it to think of the creation of the Seattle NFT Museum, the first NFT museum opened on 14 January in Seattle.

NFT and crypto art

The Madonna Lia and Leonardo da Vinci’s students

Friday March 4th, 2022 , Artists and Works

Francesco Galli, detto Napoletano
1470 – 1501
Madonna con Bambino, detta Madonna Lia olio su tavola trasportato su tela Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milano

THE MADONNA LIA AND THE STUDENTS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Madonna Lia, painted by Francesco Napolitano, is part of a group of works executed in Leonardo da Vinci’s Milanese workshop at the end of the 15th century, during the years when Leonardo was engaged in numerous assignments at the Sforza court.

Here is what you need to know about this small-scale work executed for an anonymous client.

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