Art to remember
I have only met one person, probably to impress in intellectual circles, who knows the full name of Pablo Picasso. You can try for yourself, his full name is: – Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso was a superstar and …
It’s a little sad that what many remember is how Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear and sent in the mail to show desperation. – Well I did it myself. According to the legend van Gogh sold only one painting, The Red Vineyard, bought for 400 francs by the painter and art collector Anna …
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There are few artists who are more commercial than the Japanese Takashi Murakami is. He is 60 years old and masters the digital world as if he grew up with it. Murakami is truly a modern Japanese artist who works with both visual art, paintings and digital and commercial media. He is famous for blurring …
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The city-state of the Vatican is entirely Italian in style, history and design, but it is a separate state that houses the head of the Catholic Church. There are about 1.3 billion Catholics in the world who have the Pope as their spiritual head. – You do not have to say it, but I do …
There are few people who are more concerned with the pleasant aesthetic than the Danes, their design, art and art architecture are proof of that. Even the literature, an example of this is “Babette’s Guest” a short story written by Karen Blixen. Only a Danish author could have written this book. Those who have visited …
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the world’s largest and most important art museums, and by far the largest museum in the United States. It’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, along Fifth Avenue on the east side of Central Park. Even among snobby Europeans, …
The industrial city of Bilbao has always impressed and inspired me. – It seems as if nothing is impossible for them, at the same time as they do not go for the simple solutions. Both beautiful and exciting From being a dirty and boring city, it is now one of Europe’s most exciting destinations, with …
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It is natural for me to start with the world’s largest and most visited art museum. – The Louvre is located in the center of Paris and has after the renovation really combined the old classic with the modern. Built as a giant castle where gold-shining halls are lined up one after the other. You …