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Antonio Ligabue. Una vita da artista

Antonio Ligabue (1899-1965) è stato uno degli artisti più originali del Novecento, capace di emozionare con una pennellata di colore e di trasportarci all’interno del suo mondo genuino e visionario. Nato a Zurigo, dopo un’infanzia e un’adolescenza difficili viene espulso dalla Svizzera e giunge nel 1919 a Gualtieri, in provincia di Reggio Emilia, patria del […]

An artist known as Banksy

Born in Bristol around 1974, generically classified as street artist, Banksy is an exemplary case of popularity for a living artist since the days of Andy Warhol. Today, many consider him the greatest global artist of the new Millennium.Banksy represents the best evolution of the original Pop Art. He is the sole artist able to […]

De Nittis and the revolution of seeing

De Nittis, like Boldini, was a prominent figure on the late-nineteenth-century Parisian scene throughout his career, first as avant-garde exponent of the realist school in southern Italy, and later as a full-fledged part of the Parisian innovators with whom he shared interests in photography and Japanese art, fields that profoundly influenced his work. As a […]

Boldini e la moda

“Boldini knew how to reproduce that dazzling feeling women wish to create when they are seen in their best moments.” With these words, Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous fashion photographers of the 20th century, acknowledged the talent of the Ferrarese painter in portraying the voluptuous elegance of the cosmopolitan elite of the Belle […]

Offside

A Palazzo dei Diamanti, una rassegna dedicata al contemporaneo. Il progetto, ideato da Maria Luisa Pacelli, vuole offrire uno sguardo attuale sulle questioni aperte dalle esposizioni allestite nel percorso tradizionale e dedicate ad artisti storicizzati, attraverso il confronto critico ed espositivo con il lavoro di interpreti contemporanei che lavorano su tematiche affini. Flavio de Marco. […]