There is nothing new, except only that we aren’t tired to repeat for the hundred and fifty-first time : “St. Petersburg is an amazing city!” Sometimes we walk along the same streets in the center, seemingly, for an eternity and stop noticing much, getting deeper into your thoughts and worries. But it is worth at […]
To create patterns on fabrics, these endless masterpieces, a repeating ornament, to wrap it in rolls and to put on many people own art is a real fascinating task. And the beginning of the 20th century is unique in that not only the forgotten masters who remained in the shadow (as it was at other […]
Contemporary art is a complex phenomenon, the closer it is to us, the harder it is to understand its philosophy or lack of ideology, contemplation or the call to act, in sensuality or the dispassionate evidence of reality. We can talk a lot about “how the rapid rhythm of life and the struggle for a […]
Walking in the subconscious of the artist is a kind of adventure. To get into secret alleys, to peer on the inhabitants of those places, strange, sometimes creepy, but still beautiful, mystical, to be attracted by their inexplicable magic is an amazing journey. Remedios Varo….. the name itself sounds like a singing, like a spell […]
The form. Line. Material. The harmony of these three components provides a clean design, free from any frippery, like the triumph of functionality and beauty. Twenty years after working in various design bureaus Pierre Cabrera began to develop his own line of conceptual things. “My art turns on two creative lines”, says the designer, “the origin […]
Freedom, movement, novelty, all of this is the aesthetics of Futurism, where prospects of broken lines and keen angles of diagonals of extreme flight make us hold the breath. At age 18 in 1928, Tullio Crali ((1910-2000), the future founder of the famous Italian Aeropittura (special branch of Futurism that glorifies flights, the roar of […]
If you have visited in Israel this summer and missed a such exhibition. It was unforgivable omission. Design Museum Holon opened in June the retrospective exposition of the Japanese studio Nendo and its founder talented designer Oki Sato. To define the exhibition as the look at the past is difficult, because Oki Sato is not […]
Afromysterics is the title of the creativity of Brooklyn artist of Nigerian descent Laolu Senbanjo. Photo: courtesy of Laolu Senbanjo. www.laolu.nyc He created this term in 2007, to define the mystery of their works of art and music, going back to the heritage of Yoruba people who built one of the ancient civilization in Western Africa. The […]
This is one of those books that will our guide in the journey to the origins of design. The authors of the history of modern applied arts lead their story from the industrial boom in the UK, then the emergence of Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in Germany and Austria and then to the development […]
If you want to find yourself at the dawn of our civilization, and feel united with the world around yourself? If you have strong desire to perceive harmony and understanding how and where our ancestors scooped their energy? Yes? Then, let’s make the acquaintance of our guide of another era. This is the Elena Reisnas, […]
