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Contemporáneo Founded in 1992, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is one of the most important museums in Spain, as it offers visitors an extensive collection of more than 21,000 works of...

Jewelry Summer 1622. A large Spanish fleet was returning to Spain from Havana, full of great riches from Orient and the Indies. It was protected by the guard galleons, which had cellars full of the most valuable....

Painting There have been many descriptions of Las Vegas and certainly they are all very similar: "Las Vegas is the capital of neon and casinos, it's extravagant, it's tacky, but it's fun" or, as Tom Wolfe said...

Antiques The number of objects and the establishment of museums dedicated to Ethnic Art led artists from the emerging avant-garde, at the beginning of the 20th Century, to focus on the expressiveness of objects from Black Africa. Henri Matisse...

Painting The earliest strokes were made in prehistoric times: cave paintings such as those in the caves of Altamira or Nerja. The main purpose of those drawings was to express and transmit images of human everyday’s life...

No category On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the most influential revolutionary essay of 1968, Balclis is holding an online auction and an exhibition of 50 original posters from May 1968 belonging to that movement...

No category In this post, we are going to give more details about the peculiarities of art in different regions of the Far East. Each territory boosted certain specific artistic movements. In the event that they were expanded to other places, each one...

No category From the 19th Century onwards, no type of sculpture has prevailed over others because of the loss of figurative condition, but there is still a distinction between ornamental sculpture and statuary. There was...

No category The different Chinese dynasties and traditions in art made massive productions and widespread their export to the known world. From the last Century, we can highlight the series known as "kraak", decorated in blue...

Painting "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” Groucho Marx. It is a matter of perspective that art is able to mislead us. A trompe-l'œil is just that, it is always trying to set us a trap, so that we see...