01Jan 2019 by kike_K No Comments
Discovering the Mediterranean Sea, again…

Discovering the Mediterranean Sea, again…

Painting
The Sea is a source of inspiration and more particularly the Mediterranean Sea one which has resulted in a very rich culture. Fundación Mapfre (Mapfre Founding), not for the first time, has devoted a monographic exhibition to marine landscapes, sailboats and swimmers. Eighteen years ago, in the old showrooms located in Avenida General Peron (General Perón Avenue),  a complete exhibition named A la playa (to the Beach November 2000 - January 2001) was entirely devoted to Spanish paintings between 1870 and 1936. This year though we have been able to rediscover some outstanding Spanish masters such as Sorolla or Picasso along with great names in the European Art, mainly French ones living from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. The new exhibition…
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29Dec 2018 by kike_K No Comments
New Old Cards

New Old Cards

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Again and thanks to a generous friend of mine, I have in my possession a new album of old cards released by the firm Player's Cigarettes in the late 1930’s decade. Apparently, not everything related to tobacco industry was negative. This album is devoted to emblems of Royal Air Force’s squadrons and includes a number of fifty small cards so beautifully printed with tiny details in golden ink.  My 20-page album is complete and preserved in really good conditions. Each time I leaf through, I feel a hint of nostalgia for this nearly forgotten good taste, which was obvious in every simplest and daily things a few decades ago. Nowadays everything seems so functional; are we forgetting this sort of aesthetics that lead to reverie? We must realise that no…
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27Dec 2018 by kike_K No Comments
House of Mexico – Madrid (Spain)

House of Mexico – Madrid (Spain)

Painting
The House of Mexico has started its own activity The new siege of the House of Mexico in a freshly renewed mansion in Calle Alberto Aguilera, 20 (20, Alberto Aguilera street in Madrid). The House of Mexico has started its own activity with the exhibition “Tres siglos de pintura en México” (Three centuries of Mexico’s painting). I have always been very fond of both Mexican history and culture, I have even made further researches but I must confess I had very little knowledge of painters and artists; I merely had some references of Rufino Tamayo and of Francisco Toledo. We need to point out the Spanish influence during the period of the viceroyship and the interest of so many European and North American artists in the 19th century: for all…
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