Cambridge Art Gallery
Cambridge Art Gallery installed Jeff Koons’ magnificent work entitled Aphrodite (2016) now installed in her new home a the Sensei Lanai Four Seasons Resort...
Jock McFadyen, one of the few artists to perfectly illustrate our modern world. Born in 1950 in a large town in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland called Paisley, he moved to England when he was 15 to attend Chelsea School of Art. Here, McFadyen graduated with his BA and MA, and went on to continue working as a painter as well as a teacher at the Slade School of Art...
John William Waterhouse (1849 – 1917) was a prominent English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style, which is characterized by a highly romantic, academic style. The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists founded in London in 1848, and the brotherhood’s style was an opposition against the Royal Academy’s promotion of the ideal represented and promotion of Raphael...
Baltasar Lobo was a Spanish avant-garde sculptor born in Cerecinos de Campos in 1910. He was a contemporary of Jean Arp which inspired him to create a simplified sculptural human form, focusing on the female nude and mother, child figures...
Fernando Botero is perhaps the most famous contemporary Latin American artist , born April 19th, 1931 in Medellín, Colombia Botero is known for his paintings and sculptures of inflated and voluptuous humans and animals. As a teenager, he was greatly inspired by pre-Columbiana, Spanish colonial and modern Mexican muralism. He drew from the Old Masters in images which drew upon the figures of the bourgeoisie...
Following our previous article “Aristide Maillol: Artiste Préféré,” we would like to provide you a further look into Aristide Maillol’s artistic legacy with a glance at his two museums in his hometown of Banyuls-sur-Mer and in Paris as well as the Louvre’s collection displayed in the Jardin des Tuileries...
The artist focused almost exclusively on a single subject—the female nude. Depicting a handful of models again and again, Maillol used the female form as means to explore the way mass, volume, line and contour occupy space. Influenced by classical art, his work evokes serenity and harmony and his approach to the human form reflected a new perspective in modern sculpture...
There is something so incredibly special about Claude Monet’s work. Unlike most French Impressionists, Monet didn’t embody the Parisian flâneur like Edgar Degas or Gustave Caillebotte. He was not interested in the objectivity and devotion to contemporary life but taken with the natural forms of the world. Monet was fascinated by light and worked “en plein air” to accurately capture the moment when light and color intertwined. In the absence of shadows...
In the beginning of the 20th century, artists were continuously trying to find a new way to express the changing times. Impressionists pushed back against realism, but this still wasn’t enough for artists like Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. These artists embodied Neo-Impressionism: an extension of optical concerns with a scientific interest in color. They focused on expressionistic techniques while representing forms in a symbolic manner. There was a sort of complexity of style...