Returning from Madrid in 1865, Manet asked Baudelaire why anyone bothered trying to paint because, next to Velázquez, “the greatest painter there ever was”, all others “seem completely like fakers”.
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Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) was a woman of vibrantly tenacious spirit who overcame an unfair share of adversity to become one of humanity’s most remarkable artists and a wholehearted human being out of whom poured passionate love letters and compassionate friend-letters.
Em todo o Hemisfério Norte, uma variedade de fenômenos naturais espetaculares anuncia a chegada da primavera, com seus dias mais longos e temperaturas mais amenas.
Charles Bukowski’s poem “The Bluebird,” originally published in his 1992 anthology The Last Night of the Earth Poems (public library), is a quietly profound meditation on an all too familiar facet of the human condition — our compulsion to conceal and stifle our most tender and vulnerable selves underneath tough, controlled, meticulously architected exteriors.
“The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary before our nocturnal fancies became the subject of science — an inquiry catalyzed by the publication of Freud’s seminal 1900 book The Interpretation of Dreams, which the legendary psychoanalyst considered in part his “own self-analysis” and in which he declared that “the interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
Se você também é um daqueles apaixonados pela obra de Antoine Saint-Exupéry, vai vibrar com esse trailer. Liberado hoje pela Paramount Pictures da França, o trailer de “O Pequeno Príncipe” mostra as primeiras imagens da adaptação para os cinemas desse clássico infantil.
O grafite foi encarado, em sua infância, como um novo tipo de pichação.
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Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was not only one of the greatest poets in human history, but also a man of extraordinary insight into the human spirit — take, for instance, his remarkable reflection on what a childhood encounter taught him about why we make art, quite possibly the most beautiful metaphor for the creative impulse ever committed to paper.
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In Europe, the last millennium has been shaped by successive waves of change, but which shifts, in which centuries, have really shaped the modern world? Historian Ian Mortimer identifies the 10 leading drivers of change.
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Uma equipe de cientistas e especialistas em arte descobriu uma pintura oculta sob uma das primeiras obras-primas de Pablo Picasso, “O quarto azul”, de 1901, da melancólica fase azul do pintor espanhol, quando ele vivia em Paris.
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