Yoko Ono is often remembered for her relationship with John Lennon, a framing that, while part of her biography, overshadows an artistic trajectory that both precedes and far exceeds that association. Before becoming a public figure in the pop universe, Ono already held a unique place in contemporary art, especially in performance, conceptual art, and […]
Postmodern architecture emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a reaction against the functionalist rigidity and austere formalism of modernism. It incorporated historical references, ornamentation, irony, and formal heterogeneity, rejecting the idea of a single, universal path for architectural design. Thus, modernist order and homogeneity gave way to pluralism celebrating diverse styles and references. In
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The work of Doris Salcedo stands at the intersection of social memory and form. Avoiding the spectacle of violence and instead creating listening devices. The artist displaces everyday materials such as wood, leather, concrete, earth… And animal fiber into exhibition contexts and builds situations of presence that deeply link the audience’s experience to the history
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
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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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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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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