We review Rousseau and have a look at one of the most important tendencies during the birth of Modern Art.

Una revisión de Henri Rousseau y el arte naif, una de las tendencias más significativas al inicio del Arte Moderno

A closing talk on the techniques and aesthetics of the German Expressionist movement

Una última plática en la que la estética y la técnica de estos artistas es revisada para comprender el fenómeno y su trascendencia.

An episode that reviews techniques, artists and peculiarities of the movement that came to be known as German Expressionism.

Un episodio para empezar a profundizar en la obra, técnicas y artistas del movimiento.

A review of a very celebrated symbolist (modernist), of the closing years of 19th century Mexico.

Una revisión del celebrado símbolista (modernista) artista mexicano de cierre del siglo XIX

A first analysis of the wide, trascendental movement that has come to be knoswn as German Expressionism and which was led by Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein.

Una primera revisión del movimiento lidereado por Kirchner, Heckel, Pechstein que terminamos conociendo como Expresionismo Alemán.

Considerando la escena del Arte Mexicano, que en paralelo a la literatura presentaba el proyecto modernista, nacionalista (Herrán, Atl), mientras afinaba batallas con Ruelas, Fabrés o Rebull.

Considering the art scene in Mexico for the period 1900-1915; a world in which artists such as Herrán, Ruelas, Atl, Clausell would dialogue and compete along others such as Izaguirre, Parra, Fabrés, Rebull.

Un comentario general sobre la escena y los nombres en la literatura de fin (y apertura) de siglo en México.

A general approach to the names, tendencies and principles offered by literature—the closing decades of the 19th century—so that active sociocultural forces and artists would nurture the mexican modernist project with them.

Paul Klee is an artist that redefined the road for abstraction and our comprehension of what it should achieve; he did so while embracing cultural diversity and change.

Paul Klee es un artista que redefinió la dirección para el arte abstracto y todo partió de reconocer la importancia de la diversidad cultural, el cambio de ideas, la transformación y el cambio.

Francis Picabia, un conocido artista del dadaismo, es también el pintor que experimentó con la abstracción, el cubismo e incluso el impresionismo; más aún, como escritor se sumergió en la reinvención de la propia poesía e iniciador del movimiento.

A well known dadaist artist, Francis Picabia, as a painter, experimented with abstraction and cubism, even with impressionism yet, it could be within literature and ideas that his main contributions could be underlined.

Un contexto para el nacimiento de la abstracción al revisar un poco a Kupka, Picabia, los Delaunay

Some context for the birth of abstraction since there were others like Kupka, Picabia, the Delaunay’s, Moholly-Nagy developing the concept

Jesús Contreras was a leading figure of Art and Sculpture in Mexico by the end of the 19th century; his artistic and “modernist“ views would soon be forgotten with the arrival of the Revolution and a new way of understanding Mondernism.

El modernismo en México, nos dio personajes conveninetemente olvidados por la cultura revolucionaria; uno de los grandes entre ellos, el escultor Jesús Contreras

Kandinsky was developing his abstract conceptions while participating on a group that was to be knwon as the Blue Rider.

Desde 1911 y hasta 1914, Kandinsky fue desarrollando su concepción abstracta mientras participabe del Jinete Azul, famoso colectivo vanguardista.

We finally step into the first review, of various to come, on Abstraction and Vasily Kandinsky’s role in its birth.