The spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is one of the best-known painters in the world for his work with movement surrealism, framed in the vanguards of the 1920s. His works, with a peculiar aesthetic and plastic quality, express the thoughts of the artist's own unconscious, from everyday elements that are transformed, such as melted clocks or extraordinary animals. HuhThis article highlights the lines of surrealist creation and the legacy of the artist who created fromparanoid critical method.
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NIn recent decades, visual artists have insistently worked on identity, body, gender and sexuality, with their work being central to the development of spectators' critical thinking. Starting from iconic representations from different historical periods, we will understand how the naked body and sexuality is shaped and defined by these diverse factors.
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Julião Sarmento, one of the most recognized contemporary Portuguese artists, passed away on the morning of Tuesday, May 4th, leaving behind a notorious and emblematic work punctuated by experimentation with all means and techniques. Over the last five decades, the multidisciplinarity of the Portuguese artist's work has addressed themes such as eroticism, sexuality, literature or cinema. Far from presenting an exhaustive constitution of his works, this article highlights the lines of investigation and creation that Julião Sarmento obsessively explored throughout his extensive career.
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The representation of Jesus Crucified Christ is a recurring theme in the Catholic religion, due to the relevance of this episode and the symbolism of the cross. This matrix icon manifests Christ's suffering, but also his salvation. The iconography of Christ's suffering and death has become, in the history of art, a way of representing human emotions and exploring various techniques based on a Catholic mission to sensitize the spectator. From the 20th century onwards, artists began to represent this moment with their own unique emotions and artistic languages. In order to understand how the artists portray this relevant episode for...
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