Few artists in history have had an impact as profound as Caravaggio. Unlike his contemporaries, such as the Carracci brothers, Caravaggio rejected the fading Mannerist style of the late 1500s. He grounded his work in raw, intense realism.
Neoclassicism. Let’s forget reassuring atmospheres, idyllic settings and ethereal mythological subjects, that is, all those distinctive elements of the classical language, an evergreen that is periodically revisited in order to express man’s aspiration to a blissful life.
American art, that unknown art. Some people may remember Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, at least in terms of general knowledge, but with these characters, art is really on the wane.
