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Jun 5, 2020

Urban or Street Art, a short incomplete history.

Part 1: Highly political graffiti Forty years of protean art made up of polemics, paradoxes, wide gaps, and gray areas. If street art is...

May 4, 2020

Barbizon, a basic description

A small village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest in Île-de-France, Barbizon became a den of artists wishing to escape the...

May 3, 2020

School of Fontainebleau, a basic description.

Composed of anonymous people influenced by renowned Italian masters, the so-called Fontainebleau school is a precious testimony of...

May 3, 2020

Flemish Primitives, a basic description

Flemish primitives terminology, invented in the XIXth century, refers to the Flemish painters of the XVth century active in the southern...

May 2, 2020

Blaue Reiter, a basic description.

Formed in Munich in 1911, the Blue Rider ( Blaue Reiter in German) is a group of the expressionist avant-garde. Vassily Kandinsky and...

Apr 21, 2020

Nabis, a basic description

Disciples of Paul Gauguin, in whom they saw a messiah, the Nabis are first of all young Symbolist painters passionate about esotericism...