Stories By Caroline Mokrohajská
20th century
Viennese Actionism: Between the Bestial and the Sublime
April 23, 2021Naked bodies, violence, and destructive art. The term Viennese Actionism refers to a radical and explicit form of performance art that developed in the Austrian capital during the 1960s. Mainly consisting of four members which through...
dailyart
700th Anniversary of Dante’s Death in 15 Great Artworks
April 13, 2021Hardly any author has been such a rich source of literary inspiration for the visual arts as Dante Alighieri. His two major works, the La Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy gave birth to various artistic...
20th century
How Italian Futurism Influenced Fashion
March 10, 2021During the 20th century Italian Futurist artists, thinkers, and like-minded creators such as Balla, Depero, or Thayaht paid attention to fashion. They designed or produced works that sometimes couldn’t be worn but that could be considered...
20th century
The Most Iconic Sculptures by Richard Serra
February 22, 2021Richard Serra is an American artist and sculptor involved in the Process Art Movement. He often constructs site-specific installations, made out of fiberglass, rubber, and most frequently steel on a scale that dwarfs the observer. His site-specific...
21st century
Nostalgic Futurism in the Photography of Mária Švarbová
February 15, 2021Mária Švarbová is a talented, young, Slovakian, female photographer. She is known for her conceptual and minimalistic photographic series, immersed in a Socialist Modernist architecture and radiating an intimate atmosphere, ruled geometry, and color balance. The...
Contemporary Art
The Colorful and Extraordinary World of Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden
January 26, 2021Inspired by Antonio Gaudí’s Park Güell in Barcelona, Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, as well as Palais Idéal by Ferdinand Cheval, the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, decided to create her own mystical garden, Giardino...
20th century
César Baldaccini: Master of Compression
January 11, 2021César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, was a prominent French sculptor of the 1960s. He created large sculptures formed by compressing crushed automobiles, discarded metal, rubbish, domestic objects, or even jewelry. He also collaborated with...
21st century
How Roman Opałka Envisioned Infinity
January 5, 2021In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opałka came to an important decision. While sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, an idea came into his mind, and he began...
20th century
Arte Povera: Aesthetics of the Ordinary
December 29, 2020In memory of the recently deceased world-famous Italian art critic Germano Celant, who himself in 1967 invented the term Arte Povera, translated as “Poor Art”, we would like to present to you the most important and...
20th century
Childhood Memories and Winter Charm by Vladimír Kompánek
December 23, 2020Considered by many to be the Slovak Kandinsky, we would like to present to you the famous Slovak sculptor and painter Vladimír Kompánek who, through the reduction of reality into simple geometric shapes and primary colors,...
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