by Mereasy | May 22, 2020 | Art, Colomba della pace, Culture, Guernica, Mereasy, Picasso
Reading Time: 5 minutes The tragedy of war seen through the eyes “of a child” If only we could see reality through the eyes of a child, as if it were the first time! Some artists did it. And if we learned from them, the world would open up before us like the first day...
by Mereasy | May 8, 2020 | Art, Culture, Giovanni Santi, Le Stanze di Raffaello, Mereasy, Raffaello, Raphael, Raphael rooms, Vatican Museums
Reading Time: 5 minutes The entire world celebrates the myth of Raphael, 500 years after his death. And today, we also want to tell you about a little-known aspect of his extraordinary life: his relationship with his father. It often happens that famous fathers tend...
by Mereasy | Apr 30, 2020 | Art, Culture, Mereasy, disease, epidemics
Reading Time: 5 minutes A journey between reality, divine intercessions and secularism If a beautiful angel of God can defeat and drive away a withered old woman, a metaphor for the plague that corrupts bodies and brutalizes the soul, then it is true that beauty...
by Mereasy | Mar 28, 2020 | Art, Culture, Ebru, Impressionism, Mereasy, painting with water
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Turkish practice of “paper marbling”, using on a natural element that is almost impossible to model and shape. “Written in water” is used when we are referring to something that is volatile or impossible to hold, therefore ephemeral. For...
by Mereasy | Jun 30, 2018 | Albert Bierstadt, America, Art, Culture, Frederic Edwin Church, Hudson River School, Mereasy, Mortimer Smith, Paintings, Realism, Thomas Cole, U.S.A.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The great outdoors and a river, what we can certainly call artistic muses for an entire generation of American painters from the mid-19th century”I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a...
by Mereasy | Jun 9, 2018 | Art, Chinese Art, Contemporary Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Mereasy, New York, Photography, Places, Pop Art
Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the most interesting exhibitions of the year is being held at the Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York. Since the death of Chairman Mao, the gallery owner has been a standard bearer of irreverence and irony of the Chinese artistic movements...