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To die for: Inventive and playful artworks that frame death as a happy ending
Mexico City :: Mexico | 7 months ago
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Death and taxes are no longer as certain as Benjamin Franklin's famous saying would have it...Death in a secular and medicalised world has been made into something to be put off. All credit then to the Wellcome Foundation for holding a show that
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'Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nick Kent
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nick Kent Nick Kent Robert Hughes at his apartment in New York in 1996. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns Generous, irreverent, politically incorrect, erudite, clear-sighted and very
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Robert Fisk: Where is a Goya who could chronicle today's conflict?
Beirut :: Lebanon | 11 months ago
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The great master's Disasters Of War his terrifying 19th-century sketches of rape and torture and execution are here in Beirut, such trust in Lebanon from the Cervantes Institute, such shame in Beirut that when I went to see them there was only one
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Ga. Museum of Art to hold Goya exhibit
Athens :: Greece | 1 year ago
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The Georgia Museum of Art will host an exhibit featuring 80 prints by Francisco de Goya. The "Disasters of War" series depicts the lengthy Peninsular War between Spanish forces and Napoleon Bonaparte's French invading army...Ferdinand ascended to the
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Movie Review: Manfred Kirchheimer’s ‘Art Is … the Permanent Revolution’
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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March 1, 2012 Watching Manfred Kirchheimer's Art Is ... the Permanent Revolution you might be reminded at first of airless instructional art programs on public television: three printmakers Paul Marcus , a woodcutter; Sigmund Abeles , a painter and
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Undressing the myth behind Goya
Madrid :: Spain | over 1 year ago
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Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 Special to The Japan Times On first appraisal, it might seem that the organizers have brought the wrong Maja to Japan for the exhibition "Goya: Lights and Shadows" at Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art. Of course, it would
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Recasting Goya, the bloodiest of Old Masters
Madrid :: Spain | over 1 year ago
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In the background, a firing squad points its guns at two more staked prisoners. The caption, offered by the artist, reads There is no remedy. This blunt confrontation with military violence is part of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War , a series
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Francisco Goya's highly imaginative drawings
Madrid :: Spain | almost 2 years ago
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The show also has several anonymous photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the First World War and three video installations that are part of the exhibition. Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was the first truly modern artist , whose penetrating vision of
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Goya comes to Delhi: Historic prints freeze frames of war
New Delhi :: India | almost 2 years ago
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Disasters, war, hunger and human suffering fanned the imagination of iconic 18th century Spanish artist Goya, who captured the horrors of Napolean's invasion of Spain on canvas, drawings and etchings...A comprehensive exposition of Goya's war time
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Great Works: Ferdinand VII in Royal Robes, 1815 (208 x 142.5 cm), Francisco José de Goya y de Lucientes
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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There were so many Goyas inhabiting that rather nondescript body. There was the Goya who in his early tapestries could exercise the most exquisite neo-classical restraint. Then, much later on, there was the Goya whose visions were so grotesque and so
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