Alberto Burri did not paint. He manipulated matter like someone dealing with the remains of an interrupted story. His sewn, burned, and torn sacks are not allegories. They are unmediated surfaces. They do not represent pain but present themselves as pain. The sack, once used to carry flour, coal, or provisions, becomes a field of […]
John Cage was one of the artists who most radically reshaped the idea of what can be called music. Composer, sound philosopher, and provocateur, he sought not only to create new forms of sound organization but to expand the very notion of listening. His work broke with the traditional idea of composition as something controlled
Art did innovate. It curved. It bloomed. So, it enchanted storefronts, wedding invitations, liquor bottles, and metro stations. From Paris to Prague, from Alphonse Mucha to Hector Guimard, Art Nouveau became Europe’s last great ornamental breath before collapse. It was an organic, sensitive art, devoted to the curve — and, above all, silent. At the
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After World War II, it wasn’t just the world that lay in ruins. Art, once anchored in the belief that form reflected reason, also lost its structure. Horror had broken through all symbolic barriers. Pure geometry, harmonic systems, and the clarity of modern compositions now seemed indifferent to suffering. There was no room for artworks
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The modern ideal of abstraction, as pursued by American artists at the height of modernism, sought a “pure” art—free from representation, narrative, and memory. The goal was to create a disembodied, almost ethereal form of art, focused on the sensitive and the absolute. However, in trying to move away from the world, art ended up
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At its most radical, surrealism does not aim to represent reality — it rejects it entirely. More than a simple escape, it challenges the idea of form as a rational construct. For André Masson, one of the movement’s most experimental artists, every form is a prison. It limits the creative impulse by turning lived experience
By 1910, Wassily Kandinsky was already a prominent figure in European figurative art. To understand the significance of this turning point, it helps to clarify a key distinction: unlike realist art — which seeks to portray the world with photographic accuracy — figurative art allows distortions and subjective interpretations. Yet, Kandinsky went further. He broke
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When considered as narrative, art goes far beyond the common idea of simply telling a story. Rather than just reporting events, the artwork can be understood as a space for the sensitive inscription of experience—a way of making visible what usually remains unseen: emotions, tensions, intuitions, silences. This is the perspective proposed by thinkers like
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There is something deeply dissonant—and therefore revealing—about the way Stephanie Dinkins brings artificial intelligence into the field of art. On Love and Data does not treat AI as a calculation tool or a futuristic illustration. Instead, it becomes a tense space where emotions, absences, and inequalities are enacted. In this context, AI is far from
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Gerhard Richter, whose artistic trajectory lies between photography and abstraction, pioneered a creative model in which chance and tools act not as mere instruments, but as active components of the aesthetic process. From his early monochromes with loose brushstrokes to radically transformed photographic series, Richter sustains a constant dialogue between gesture and contingency. As a
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