Crossing the bridge When you travel it is not always quite comfortable to have your box easel with you, so making sketches is a good alternative to capture the place’s individuality. You can do sketches with almost any medium: graphite, crayon, charcoal, pens, etc. It is a very versatile way of creating art that presupposes …
Her name is Amaterasu. In Japanese mythology, she is known as the goddess of the sun and the universe. In one of her emanations, she is also the dragon goddess, which is implied by the red kimono hanging on the background. When Amaterasu becomes furious, legends tell that she descends to the earth in the …
Malgrat de Mar is a small town in the coastal Catalonia (Spain). Its long beach that stretches along the town is a part of the sealine of Costa Brava. Originally, the town was set up by the local fishermen. Nowadays, principally living by tourism, it still preserves signs of the past epochs. The church of …
The embodiment of beauty Like many other concepts, through the evolution of humankind, the canon of beauty has been changing with time. Related to flesh and bone, these beliefs had transformed from prehistoric art until modernism, and their course was even more rapid in the postmodern era—it is enough to take a look at models …
Casa de les Punxes (Casa de los Pinchos) is a modernist style castle-like building in the heart of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Designed by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, one of the major representatives of the Catalan Modernism, it is situated in the iconic Eixample district, in the Avinguda Diagonal and its intersection with Carrer …
Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan, is a character of the German Arthurian tradition and the Crusade cycle of Old French medieval literature. He was the son of another famous hero–Parzival–and one of the knights of the Holy Grail, who was sent to Brabant to rescue a maiden and save the kingdom in exchange for …
The title of this painting alludes to the famous phrase by Maestro Franco Zeffirelli: Quando sento che mi prende la depressione, torno a Firenze a guardare la cupola del Brunelleschi: se il genio dell’uomo è arrivato a tanto, allora anche io posso e devo provare a creare, agire, vivere. Probably, this is the paradox of …
