by Mereasy | Dec 13, 2019 | Art, Diego Velázquez, Famous Paintings, Las Meninas, Masterpiece Explained, Seville, Spain
Reading Time: 7 minutes The true meaning of an artwork that never ceases to amaze Historical ContextThe piece was painted in 1656, at the end of Diego Velasquez’s career (1599-1660), the greatest Spanish artist of that time period. From his native Seville, the artist...
by Mereasy | Nov 1, 2019 | Abstractionism, Art, Famous Paintings, Masterpiece Explained, Modern Art, Music, Paintings, Wassily Kandinsky
Reading Time: 4 minutes Completed in 1913 by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, this work represents the Great Flood. However, this was not the title given to it by the author. He called it “Composition VI” – as if it were a musical score – and this...
by Mereasy | Sep 19, 2019 | America, Andy Warhol, Australia, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Famous Paintings, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Museums, New York, Paintings, Pop Art, Primitivism, Street-art
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Melbourne, Australia, this exhibition traces the career of two protagonists of 20th-century American art, artists who were quite similar and yet at the same time entirely different. These artists, perhaps unconsciously, managed to bring art...
by Mereasy | Jul 19, 2019 | Art, Beato Angelico, Exhibitions, Famous Paintings, Masterpiece Explained, Museums, Spain
Reading Time: 7 minutes During the celebration of 200 years since its foundation, one of the most interesting exhibitions at Prado Museum is “Fra Angelico and the rise of the Florentine Renaissance”.The event arises from the restoration of the Annunciation, which the...
by Mereasy | Oct 19, 2018 | Art, Dutch Golden Age, Famous Paintings, Masterpieces explained, Mereasy, Paintings, Rembrandt
Reading Time: 3 minutes An enchanting and mysterious painting, starting with the title, around which a thousand stories and anecdotes revolve.The charactersAfter all, each of them has a thousand stories to tell, starting with Captain Frans Banning Cocq. The son of a...
by Mereasy | Oct 11, 2018 | Art, Dutch Golden Age, Famous Paintings, Masterpieces explained, Mereasy, Paintings, Rembrandt
Reading Time: 3 minutes An enchanting and mysterious painting, starting with the title, around which a thousand stories and anecdotes revolve.The TitleOriginally known as The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, only at the end of the 1700s did...