Balasz Takac

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Balasz Takac

Despite numerous social and economic restraints, the 1980s New York was a melting pot that birthed a new generation of artists that changed art history. One of them is Angel Ortiz, better known as LA II, who was a lasting collaborator and creative partner of Keith Haring. Throughout the decades, he has built a graffiti-based oeuvre primarily under the influence of fluctuations across the 1980s, strongly influencing generations of artists.

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Balasz Takac

For five decades, Romanticism was a dominant cultural phenomenon that spanned through various European countries throughout the first half of the 18th century. It affected not only writers and also artists but philosophers, scientists, and politicians. At the core of the Romantic enchantment stood individualism, along with the glorification of nature and the ideals from the past primarily the medieval period.

1 week ago | blog.artsper.com | Balasz Takac

During the current protests over the death of George Floyd and other Black people under the hand of the police, various monuments—including works like Fons Americanus—were overthrown from their centuries-old pedestals in central areas or cities across America and the UK. The reason for that is very simple—the controversial artifacts honored white males involved in different forms of slavery, whether they acted as decision-makers or wealthy landowners.

2 weeks ago | blog.artsper.com | Balasz Takac

Gazing Ball (Perugino Madonna and Child with Four Saints) is a reenacted painting The Madonna in Glory with Saints by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino made between 1500 and 1501. This sacral composition featuring the standardized theme at the time when the explorations of perspective were popular apparently fascinated Koons to such an extent that he felt it had to be part of the series.

2 weeks ago | blog.artsper.com | Balasz Takac

The 19th century nurtured a number of exceptional artists who produced iconic masterpieces, and one of them is Ophelia, by famous British artist Sir John Everett Millais. This captivating painting was made between 1851 and 1852 and it features the last moments of Ophelia, a tragic character from the Hamlet play by William Shakespeare. Before we analyze this work of astounding beauty, it is necessary to present the fitting context.