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That’s amazing! This will become, if it is not already, the new way to produce art. The art of the new millennium.These are the last days to be flashed and even interact with myriads of sharpy lights. Winter Lights Festival, this the name of the event, is being displayed throughout the major business district of London, Canary Wharf. Indeed, for eleven days of the first month of the year, thirty sculptures and structures of light, indoors and outdoors, have shined the space and the people surrounding them. There has been an installation shining through the bodies of the visitors of the event, “Through this we are given the opportunity to experience a world...

Barbara Nicotra

04 Jan 2017

Twentieth century: Avant-Garde Art

This paragraph will show posts related to art history of early ‘900, when the most industrialised countries, such as Germany and France, refused the past, breaking with historical and cultural tradition of the previous century decreeing the failure of bourgeois society at human and artistic level. At that time it was thought that the Reason, on which the nineteenth century was based, was the cause of human unhappiness. As a consequence, innovation and originality became the key words of this cultural and artistic phenomenon composed of manifold artistic movements such as expressionism, dadaism, cubism, surrealism, futurism, and so on.

Barbara Nicotra

04 Jan 2017

Vincent van Gogh

Great enthusiasm and deep moments of depression Van Gogh lived restlessly and tormented throughout his life, spent between The Hague, London and Paris. Since he was a child he was oppressed by his father, church minister, who was very severe, imparting strict rules. Moreover, he was disappointed by his first love, Clasina Maria Hoornik, known as Sien, who was “A pregnant woman who walked the streets in the winter” wrote Vincent to his brother Theo. They lived together for almost two years, after that, the story ended because of the physical and emotional instability of both. In addiction, Sien, who van Gogh used to call “the woman”, was pressured by her mother to return to prostitution...

Barbara Nicotra

28 Dec 2016

Rome Street Art

Rome, Italy Creative, bursting with originality, Rome is trasforming itself. San Lorenzo, Pigneto, Testaccio, are among the oldest and most artistic boroughs of the town, where art through its ornamentation innovates streets and squares, giving citizens a better and more beautiful landscape. Indeed, art does not have borders, it can transform a railway tunnel in a smoker’s mouth, or a staircase in a feminine face as well as a wall of a house becomes a boat under a storm and a religious icon, a Madonna with a baby, ‘protects’ another house. As a matter of fact, art cannot be stopped, it inspires poor and rich people even though the poorer, the more...