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It happened in 1966, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. A group of artists, sculptors, and painters presented an exhibition under the title *The Photographic Image*. The show was announced with the eloquent words: “Attention, there is no…
In 1907, an 18-year-old boy named Adolf Hitler attempted to enter the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The young man had prepared intensively for over a year to pass the admission exam, where he would compete with more than…
Definition of artistic Happening The happening is about involving the public as much as possible in the work of art, making them participate. Furthermore, in the happening music, theater and, also as an expressive element, the visual-plastic intervene. Music, in…
There are many examples of caricatures or cartoon series based on aspects, more or less rigorous, of people in real life. The resemblance is usually physical, but as we will see, sometimes it goes beyond the physical resemblance… Mr. Magoo…
Two versions of the same historical image that, in reality, never happened. That really is political propaganda The painting of the neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David ‘ Napoleon crossing the Alps ‘ navigates, for the course of History, between art and propaganda, like practically all…
What is Fauvism? It is said that of the artistic movements of the 20th century, Fauvism was the most fleeting and the most difficult to define. Les fauves , the beasts , Fauvism was called the style of painting that during the years 1904 and 1907 was developed mainly by Henri Matisse (one…