Celia Leiva Otto

Cèlia is an Art Historian from Barcelona. She graduated specialized in contemporary art and finished her Research Master in Art and Design. She lived in Berlin for a year and came back to Barcelona where she worked as an Art Consultant. Her research focuses on the image, specially the post-photographic theory.

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Bizarre

Nighthawks as Memes – Edward Hopper’s Best Renditions

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks is one of the best-known images of 20th-century art that has also become one of the most popular meme sources of the...

Celia Leiva Otto 7 May 2023

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire, Destruction, 1836, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Ancient Rome

Painting the Fall of the Roman Empire

After many centuries, we are still wondering why the Roman Empire disappeared. Many theories try to explain it: wars, ideological problems, a chaotic...

Celia Leiva Otto 15 March 2023

Art History 101

How to Read Piet Mondrian

We can all recognize Mondrian’s work in a second. Our eyes navigate through the lines jumping from color to color. His artistic career...

Celia Leiva Otto 7 March 2023

Architecture

LEGO Architecture: Build Your Very Own Modernist House

Lego gives us the opportunity to create our own world. We’ve all played as kids creating the most amazing places from our imagination or even...

Celia Leiva Otto 7 July 2020