Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture
Iberia, the style betrays a strong Hellenic influence and the artist may well have been Greek. The Celtiberians lacked such soph ...
112 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
113 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
Keeping the faith: Spain joins the Renaissance The Renaissance took a while to get its claws into Spain, its Italianate themes s ...
Venetian vibes: art under Felipe II In Felipe II the arts found an enthusiastic new patron, one who tried to bring the best of t ...
El Greco:The first master of Spanish art (...yes, he was Greek) Spanish art was trundling along without great distinction in the ...
Spain fast-forwards into Realism Even while the artist was still alive, El Greco’s style felt anachronistic in the wider context ...
Natural wonders: Ribera and Ribalta Spain was turned on to the new, naturalistic style by a pair of artists from Valencia.The fi ...
Aged 24, he moved to Madrid as court painter to Felipe IV. Painting slowly, meticulously, Velázquez normalised the royal court, ...
the devout, sketching the austerity of monastic life or the ebullience of a saint. Zurbarán was also a master of Spain’s new spe ...
Baroque masters: the Madrid School While Murillo, Zurbarán et al worked away in Seville, a parallel, if less acclaimed, school o ...
The god of wood Spain stepped up its obsession with polychrome wood in the Baroque period as sculpture paralleled trends in the ...
123 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
124 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
introspection with the artist’s sarcasm for a society he felt was in decay. Spain’s war with Napoleon in 1808 drove the growing ...
126 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
127 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
128 Identity: the building blocks of 2. Literature and philosophy 3. Art and architecture 4. Performing arts 5. Cinema and fash ...
Picasso kept the Cubism up for the rest of his long life, but he was an artistic chameleon, rummaging restlessly through differe ...
he turned to bulging lumps of clay for representing the female form in the early 30s. Later, he continued to make sculpture from ...
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