Tag Archives: History

18 Nov

Art History, Art News

Peggy Guggenheim, a collector and patron addicted to art

• November 18, 2022
• By Yessire García

Usually when we talk about art, we do so referring to artists and their work, historians, critics, researchers and art curators, but it...

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15 Sep

Art History

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, a woman with a Dadaist spirit

• September 15, 2022
• By Yessire García

Throughout history, it hasn’t been as easy for women to dedicate themselves professionally to art as men, since, due to a series of mor...

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07 Sep

Art History

Grandma Moses, American naïve painter

• September 7, 2022
• By Yessire García

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as “Grandma Moses”, was born in the United States on September 7, 1860, and died on December 13...

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24 Aug

Art History

Marie Louise Vigée Lebrun, talented and privileged French painter

• September 7, 2022
• By Yessire García

Marie Louise Vigée Lebrun was a French artist born in 1755 and died in 1842, who devoted herself to painting, a discipline from which s...

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17 Aug

Art History

Urban and mechanized world in the work of Fernand Léger

• September 7, 2022
• By Yessire García

Fernand Léger was a French artist of the first half of the 20th century. He was born on February 4, 1881, and died, in his native count...

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10 Aug

Art History

María Izquierdo, overshadowed color in the history of Mexican art

• August 10, 2022
• By Yessire García

In Mexico there have been many women artists, but those who have always been referred to are Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Ca...

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29 Jul

Art History

Vincent van Gogh’s Vineyard

• July 29, 2022
• By Yessire García

Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853, in the Netherlands, and died in France on July 29, 1890, at the age of 37, still young. He was a ver...

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16 Jul

Art History

Dora Maar, beyond Picasso

• July 18, 2022
• By Yessire García

Henriette Theodora Markovitch, better known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer and painter. This artist, of a Croatian father (arc...

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14 Jul

Art History

The eclectic artistic style of Gustav Klimt

• July 15, 2022
• By Yessire García

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter, draftsman, engraver, and designer, who was born on July 14, 1862, and died in his native country ...

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06 Jul

Art History

Tears, anger, and tenderness in Guayasamín’s work

• July 6, 2022
• By Raquel Castro

My painting is of two worlds. From skin inside is a cry against racism and poverty; from skin to the outside is the synthesis of the ti...

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