by Judith Benhamou | Jul 14, 2025 | Abstraction, Contemporary art, Exhibition
Wassily Kandinsky Each type of abstraction has its own school, and they rarely overlap. First came the great inventors of abstraction, led by Wassily Kandinsky, who, in the 1910s, began moving away from purely figurative forms in order to bring painting closer...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 10, 2025 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art
Letizia Battaglia Often, when artists first begin documenting their lives through photography, they naturally start by capturing their happy days. But what comes next—in both their work and their lives—usually ends up telling another story. Case in point: Letizia...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 6, 2025 | Art History, Exhibition, Modern Art
https://youtu.be/QhDVh8aFuMs Aix en Provence It’s a safe bet that had Cézanne not been from Aix-en-Provence, the history of modern art would have gone down a very different path. In the final years of his life, the painter—whom Picasso would later call “the forefather...
by Judith Benhamou | Jul 2, 2025 | Contemporary art, Exhibition
https://youtu.be/gNyuk6G2GBE?si=q_i4EeB_Y7jATAV7 Site of grandeur When sites of grandeur reach a certain level, they become religious. Which isn’t to say that visiting such places makes one believe more in Jesus or Buddha. Simply, the feeling that grips us is that of...
by Judith Benhamou | Jun 30, 2025 | Art Market, Exhibition, Modern Art
https://youtu.be/LsfgADzyBrQ?si=nZtUVPDOw8dq4Whm Several Matisse At the most recent Art Basel fair in Basel, paintings by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) could be found at several booths. London- and New York-based gallery Luxembourg & Co, for instance, was showing a...
