Red is the color that corresponds to the lowest light frequency seen by the human eye. The red light’s wavelength is about 700 nm. The lowest frequencies, that is, the longest wavelengths, are called infrared.
Red is a complementary color of cyan.
We’re giving our readers the second issue of our Art by Excelencias magazine. Based on the first issue’s magnificent acclaim among artists, critics and researchers in the realm of the fine arts, the Excelencias Group has made the decision to add…
It’s understood that Rene Francisco interprets in many ways, as if his doing allowed him to cover with just one stroke several meanings of such an expansive verb.
For Matilde Perez (Chile, 1920), you get there in art only if you know how to “get” there in life. Ninety years of life and active career speak volumes of the veracity and conviction of her statement.
What does Doris Salcedo evoke when she orders to choose the floor of the Hall of Turbines with a 547-foot-long crack?
It’s becoming increasingly necessary to make an analysis of the research studies channeled by the Havana Biennial in an effort to move beyond the curatorial field that apparently zeroes in on the work of art.
Sometimes I’ve said on television that in the face of the music video’s drive into ethno-esthetic profiles and the social-cultural expressions of certain individuals and groups, we should take on the notion of the anthropological video.
Will Duchamp’s lesson never end? It always sneaks in through an unexpected place –a window, for example– when nobody expects it, just another twist on that virtually endless inspiration for art over the last hundred years.
Let’s begin with a common, equally necessary place to lodge ourselves in the point we want to get to.
The Excelencias Gallery, a space devoted to the promotion, exhibition and sale of contemporary art, will swing its gates wide open to showcase the most representative artworks within the main fine arts trends from the Americas and the Caribbean.
We’re living in very com plex times wi thin the universe of contemporary art, according to the signals coming from everywhere under the sun, either inside the country or outside. Never before there’s been such an amount of creators and expressions…
If archives were not to be delved into and were scorned as simply useless and lugubrious places, we’ll be taking the risk of letting boldface names like Max Jimenez Huete (1900-1947) fall into oblivion in their own country –despite his being one of…
When the past century came to a close , the Caribbean art was basking in the international limelight. The 1990s were fertile in the opening of regional exchanges and in terms of major world-class exhibition events. The Caribbean plastic arts had…
I remember that a few years ago information on Central America’s artistic scene was scarce and misleading. On nations like Nicaragua, it used to be far more disappointing. No wonder one of the exhibits that tried to scour certain zones of the…