Art History

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06/08/2013

A short guide to Arte Povera

While two exhibitions are taking place simultaneously at the Louvre and Versailles with symbolic artists of that movement, Artsper offers you to focus on Arte Povera, artistic movement born a little less than a century ago in Italy. “Attitude” more than a real artistic movement, Arte Povera was born in September 1967 when art critic Germano Celant chose to present…

28/07/2013

A Short Guide to the Young British Artists

In 1988, an exhibition named “Freeze” is organized in the Docklands district, South London. This exhibition shows the works of sixteen students from the Goldsmiths College of Art, an londoner art school. Since no gallery wanted to expose their works, they took the decision to create their own exhibition. ©  Angus Fairhurs In this small group we can find Angus Fairhust,…

22/07/2013

In the Office: Being a Gallery Owner with Baudoin Lebon

Today Artsper is meeting Baudoin Lebon, founder and director of the Baudoin Lebon Gallery in Paris. What is the job of gallery owner? How does it progress and to what new challenges is it today facing? Focus on an evolving and often unknown profession. Artsper: What did you want to do when you were a child and why did you…

17/07/2013

10 Things you need to know about Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky is one of the most famous photographers in the world. His photographs are the result of an enormous amount of work, of great precision and technical skill.

07/07/2013

A Short Guide to Bad Painting

If you have never heard about the “Bad Painting”, you are certainly familiar with some of its famous representative people’s works. The name of Jean-Michel Basquiat must indeed be familiar to you, especially since the retrospective that the musée d’art moderne de Paris gave him during Spring 2011. Kenny Scharf - Palm Springs Vacation - 1978 What are the characteristics…

03/07/2013

10 things to know about Roy Lichtenstein

We turn our attention to the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the major figures of Pop-Art, exploring 10 anecdotes about his life.