La vida en Roma: retrospectiva de Cy Twombly

En Roma, en la Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, desde el 4 marzo hasta el 24 de mayo se exhibirá una gran retrospectiva de Cy Twombly, ya exhibida en Londres Y Bilbao.

Aquí la guía a la muestra de la Tate Modern.

Dos noticias de arte

El pintor estadounidense Robert Rauschenberg, pionero del "pop art" y considerado una de las figuras artísticas más influyentes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, murió en Tampa (Florida) el lunes a los 82 años (Nota en Adn)




















La obra Triptych, 1976, del pintor irlandés Francis Bacon (1909–1992), fue subastada ayer por 86 millones de dolares, la cifra más alta pagada hasta ahora en subasta por una obra del periodo de Posguerra.

Arte: 50 works of art you should see before you die

50 works of art you should see before you die, according to Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones and his readers (probably the most learned cyber-community on the web)

here are links to all of them:

> Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (1450s), National Gallery, London
> Antony Gormley, The Angel of the North (1998), Gateshead
> Masjid-i Shah (now Masjid-i Imam) Mosque (largely 1612-1630) Isfahan, Iran
> JMW Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), National Gallery, London
> Claude Monet, Nymphéas (1914-1926), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
> Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah
> Tikal (AD300-AD869), Late Classic Maya site, Guatemala
> Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York
> John Constable, The Hay Wain (1821), National Gallery, London
> The Alhambra (mostly 14th century), Granada
> Mark Rothko, The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Houston, Texas
> Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Musée Unterlinden, Colmar
> Masaccio, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
> Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo
> Giotto, Fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305-1306), Padua
> Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889), Museum of Modern Art, New York
> Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210BC), Shaanxi province, China
> Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1481-1482), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
> Stonehenge (2950BC-1600BC), Salisbury Plain, UK
> Limbourg brothers, Les Très Riches Heurs du Duc de Berry (1413-1416), Musée Condé, Chantilly
> The Book of Kells (c. AD800), Trinity College Library, Dublin
> Ishtar Gate (c. 575BC), Pergamon Museum, Berlin
> Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Descent from the Cross (1611-1614), Antwerp Cathedral
> Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Prado, Madrid
> Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (c. 1435), Musée du Louvre, Paris
> Jan Vermeer, View of Delft (c. 1660-1661), Mauritshuis, the Hague
> Caravaggio, The Burial of St Lucy (1608), Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily
> Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1654), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
> Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808 (1814), Prado, Madrid
> Edouard Manet, The Dead Torero (1864), National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
> Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
> Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome
> Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1481), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
> Pablo Picasso,, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
> Titian, Danaë (1544-1546), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
> Raphael, The School of Athens (1510-1511), Stanza della Signatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
> Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles) (c. 444BC), British Museum, London
> Henri Matisse, The Dance (1910), Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
> Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1819), Louvre, Paris
> Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1829-1833), series of woodblock prints, copies in major museums worldwide
> Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (1565), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
> Ice Age paintings (about 30,000 years old) in the, Chauvet Cave, Ardèche
> Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses (1996), includes works on permanent view at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
> Jasper Johns, Flag (1954-1955), Museum of Modern Art, New York
> Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, The Annunciation (1335), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
> Jean-Antoine Watteau, Gilles (1718-1719), Louvre, Paris
> Hans Holbein,, The Dead Christ (1521-1522), Kunstmuseum, Basel
> Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
> Funerary Mask of, Tutankhamun (1333BC-1323BC), Egyptian Museum, Cairo
> San Rock Art, South African National Museum, Cape Town, and at open air sites.