Antonino La Vela

Francis Bacon’s “Triptych May-June 1973” emerges from a profound personal tragedy, the suicide of his partner, George Dyer, which occurred in Paris just two days before Bacon’s major retrospective at the Grand Palais. This event deeply affected Bacon, intertwining the pinnacle of his professional acclaim...Read all

Ugo Attardi was born in Sori (Genoa) from Sicilian family, in 1923 and died in Rome in 2006. His father, originally from Santo Stefano Quisquina, a small village in the province of Agrigento, was a trade unionist and active component in 'Federation Seafarers', was forced by the fascist regime to leave...Read all

Carla Accardi was an Italian painter who contributed significantly to the acceptance of abstract art in Italy. Accardi was born in Trapani, Sicily in 1924 and studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence before relocating to Rome in 1946, where she would live until her death. Her early paintings...Read all

The term Forma 1, comes from the title of a magazine "Forma", which had only one exit in March 1947, published in Rome, by the initiative of an Italian artists group, which share similarities of purpose, and where was worked out the "formalist manifesto" The group: Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Pietro...Read all

I created a new painting is a tetraptych titled My Universes in Meta-Universe - Just a Dream Metaphysic. Year 2015 Base 160 cm X Height 200 cm The concept of other universes has been proposed to explain how our universe can be developed for conscious life, we experience every day the extent where...Read all

Wassily Kandinsky was a great Russian painter, considered the first artist to have painted works completely abstract. He was born in Moscow, 1866, and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, in 1944: in his works used styles and color techniques, at that time, largely unexplored. He produced his first...Read all

For the first half of his life, Munch was obsessed by the tragedy of existence and of destiny. In his seventies he said,"I have always walked along an abyss " despite a measure of tranquillity and self-detachment long since acquired. It seem he has spent his life on a tragedy and also it seem that this...Read all

The first time I saw this painting, at the DIA (Detroit Institute of Art)... It was there, along with two other van Gogh paints, in the next room was the Rivera Court. I went very close; my face was about 10-15 cm from it. I could see the veins of the paint brush. The details were wonderful, as well...Read all