Category Archives: Artwork

Redefining Art, Between Declarations and Dreams, Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century, National Gallery Singapore

Re:Defining Art (post 1970s). Artists in this period became more concerned with political and cultural issues, not just the form or appearance of an artwork. Using a wider range of approaches and materials, they experimented with other genres such as installation, video, photography and performance. Re:Defining Art exhibition in the…

Redefining Art, Between Declarations and Dreams, Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century, National Gallery Singapore

Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The collection of the exhibition “Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions”, covers much of its temporal arc, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s occupying all the galleries of the Museum, from the Serpa Pinto Wing. It begins with portraiture, an eighteenth-century theme rarely addressed in generational dialogues by artist collectives…

Portuguese art, Reasons and Emotions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The Power of the Image, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

The close relationship between Veloso Salgado and the painters Adrien Demont and Virginie Demont-Breton represents an exceptional case of artistic collaboration and friendship. Veloso Salgado spent some time at the Demont residence in Wissant, near Calais in the North of France, a town where the couple had settled and which…

The Power of the Image, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal

‏‏‎Church of the Mother of God, National Tile Museum of Portugal

When visitors enter the Church of the Madre Deus Convent, they are amazed by the lavish decoration, which makes the convent a fine example of Portuguese Baroque in all its splendour. All available space seems to be decorated by azulejo, gilded carving or paintings. Although the church was built by…

‏‏‎Church of the Mother of God, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Chapter House of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Everything points to the fact that this choir originally occupied a part of the primitive church, probably the main chapel which was transformed into the Chapter House in the works campaign of D. João III (r. 1521-1557). The Low Choir eventually acquired a funerary function, for it was here that…

Chapter House of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Sacristy of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Decorated during the reign of D. João V, circa 1746, the sacristy has a limestone slab floor in various tones, creating a geometric mosaic, and a flat ceiling with an enormous painting depicting “The Assumption of the Virgin” by André Gonçalves (b. 1692 – d. 1762). The walls are lined…

Sacristy of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

15th and 16th centuries, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Glazed mosaic pavements have been used in Portugal since the 13th century. They were made of plain coloured geometric pieces, as testified by the examples from the Monastery of Alcobaça and the Castle of Leiria. After the second half of the 15th century, pavings appeared of alfardons with losetas and…

15th and 16th centuries, National Tile Museum of Portugal

High Choir of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

The High Choir, where the nuns of the old convent used to convene, was also known as the “Treasure Room”, given the number of relics stored in its giltwood display cases around the room. Carved in surprisingly meticulous woodwork and then gilded, this collection of relics has few parallels in…

High Choir of the Mother of God Convent, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Room of the Praia Palace, National Tile Museum of Portugal

The set of six, two larger and six smaller panels came from the long-gone Praia Palace in Belém, Lisbon. They are now placed in the so-called Hunting Room, a space in the National Azulejo Museum where its founder, João Miguel dos Santos Simões, wished to recreate a 17th century ambience.…

Room of the Praia Palace, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Neoclassical and Art Nouveau, National Tile Museum of Portugal

The assimilation, both in azulejos and in three-dimensional ceramic ware, of the formal and technical values of the Neoclassical style which were to continue as an eclectic expression until about 1830, began in the Real Fábrica de Louça in Rato, Lisbon (1765-1835) in the last decade of the 18th century.…

Neoclassical and Art Nouveau, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Ceramics and Urban Art, National Tile Museum of Portugal

From the mid-20th century onwards the history of azulejos is difficult to characterise given the multiple languages and proposals it presents as a result of the individual work and the research of each creator. This is a time of diversity, and the azulejo reflects that symphony of languages, a chorus…

Ceramics and Urban Art, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Big Panorama of Lisbon, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Grande Panorama de Lisboa, discover Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake. An entire city portrayed for eternity in this magnificent painting on ceramic. This extraordinary work is a unique iconographic document. The panorama shows the most complete view of Lisbon from the River Tagus before the earthquake that destroyed the city…

Big Panorama of Lisbon, National Tile Museum of Portugal

Live Uncertainty, 32nd São Paulo Biennial

The title of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), proposes to look at notions of uncertainty and the strategies offered by contemporary art to embrace or inhabit it. While stability is understood as a remedy against anxiety, uncertainty is generally avoided or denied. The arts, though,…

Live Uncertainty, 32nd São Paulo Biennial

The Fall Of The Rebel Angels, 360° Video, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

A closer look at the masterpiece, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) Gigapixel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. An immersive experience which lets you explore The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) like never before. Detail by detail, the painting comes to…

The Fall Of The Rebel Angels, 360° Video, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Auditorium, Palais Garnier

The auditorium has a traditional Italian horseshoe shape and can seat 1,979. The stage is the largest in Europe and can accommodate as many as 450 artists. The canvas house curtain was painted to represent a draped curtain, complete with tassels and braid. In the tradition of Italian theaters, the…

Auditorium, Palais Garnier

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