Tinta y oro

The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...

Continuando con el programa expositivo que el Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao desarrolla bajo el nombre de El Papel del arte, en su sexta edición continúa con el estudio de las obras sobre papel de su propia colección, mostrando una selección de artistas que desarrollaron la mayor parte de su producción durante el siglo XIX y cuyas realizaciones se encuentran estéticamente acordes con la vertiente más academicista.

Alatorre (1922) nos permite adentrarnos en la historia de nuestro idioma de una manera apasionante, pues vemos su evolucin como parte de nuestra propia historia, no como un asunto que competa slo a profesores de lingstica. Los idiomas, afirma, no toleran la inmovilidad, reflejan las transformaciones histricas.