Seeing beyond was once a subject dear to artists and poets, among them Leopardi, who with his "seeing further" used to refer to the hedge is now a topical subject through which to sink the sad reality to face the future with courage. "When We See Further" is, in these times and not by chance, the theme tackled by four Florida artists who explore through the body, fragility and time ...
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While the various museums in Miami and Fort Lauderdale reopened after the long closure due to the Covid-19, the FRIST Museum in Nashville closed the doors of the exhibition "Quest for the Sublime", which focused on one of the greatest and most recognized landscape painters of the West: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). The exhibition presented oil paintings, watercolors and evocative sketches by one of the greatest artists of English ...
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Ron English, known in the art world as one of the leading figures in street art, who has composed numerous murals both in Miami and around the world, was the winner of the annual Art Wynwood Tony Goldman Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award in 2019: The year in which both in Wynwood and around Miami, his characters swarmed with two or more recognizable iconic images in abrupt juxtapositions, with which he ...
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the greatest illustrators of "The Golden Age of American Illustration": the period between 1850 and 1925 during which American illustration art had reached its peak. Although J.C. Leyendecker was almost forgotten, after the covers of Norman Rockwell who, with his iconic images of America linked to the values of the God, country and family, made both Americans and the rest of the world dream, ...
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Let's call it hyperrealism, radical realism or new realism: the undisputed protagonist of the issue are Duane Hanson's sculptures. I admit that the first times I saw Duane Hanson's works I was perplexed: I was in Palm Beach, on the famous Worth Avenue and from the window of a gallery I saw a policeman in uniform, I observed him for a while and approached him nonchalantly: only after having observed ...
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BK FOXX, her name comes from her initials associated with her favourite animal: the fox, an animal with a positive value in almost all cultures. BK Foxx is an artist originally from New York, technically Long Island, but she works everywhere. If you pass through Miami, Wynwood, you will see one of its large murals made entirely with spray cans, without brushes, stencils or anything else. Her ideas are born ...
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The figure of Anthoniszon van Aken, better known under the pseudonym Hieronymus Bosch, is still shrouded in mystery. One of the greatest and most mysterious, Flemish masters, Bosch has managed to liven up the imagination of scholars and enthusiasts thanks to the stories full of symbolism and mysticism told, with meticulous detail, by each of the many characters, ironic and grotesque, who inhabit his paintings. Hieronymus Bosch, was born into a ...
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Amoako Boafo, his name is now in art magazines all over the world consecrated among the gods of the Olympus. After his debut at the FIAC -International Contemporary Art Fair- in Paris in October 2019, an event in which his works were literally "sold out", he made his entrance into the Miami scene, first as an artist residing in the renowned Rubell Museum (formerly Rubell Family Collection), then entering the ...
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Prix de West Purchese Award 2020. The winner of the 48th edition of the Prix de West is DRUM ROLL...Bill Anton, with the opera "Makeshift Ambulance". The Prix de West, turns out to be America's premier western art exhibition and sale every year at (the) The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. The exhibition admits themed works composed in different mediums and styles ranging from figurative ...
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“My art Journey is the creative dance of the spirit” says Sonia Hidalgo, an artist of Venezuelan origin who lives and works in Miami, where she has been a teacher and director of MIFA Contemporary at the Miami International School of Arts since March 2020. The Contemporary Program was created to provide a dynamic mix of viewpoints that expose students to a variety of concepts about modern and contemporary art. ...
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