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Descripción / Resumen (Catalán): Quan un entra al Saló Sant Jordi del Palau de la Generalitat, si alça el cap, és molt probable que la primera figura que vegi pintada al sostre sigui la de Balmes. També hi són les de Torras i Bages (enfrontada a la de Balmes), Llorens i Barba, Menéndez Pelayo, etcètera. Però la de Balmes destaca pel lloc que ocupa. Com és ben sabut, els murals actuals van ser pintats en temps de la dictadura de Primo de Rivera per tal de substituir els frescos noucentistes de Torres García, poc reeixit a l’hora de mostrar la naturalesa essencialment espanyola de l’esperit català i de les contribucions que aquest havia fet a la Nación. Doncs bé, avui, quan ...
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Details the findings of a three-year study undertaken at the Center for Educational Policy Research on inequality in schooling in America and its relation to economic success.
The most comprehensive publication on the artist's production, featuring about 100 works, created within the last ten years. Bruno Dunley's (b. Petrópolis, Brazil 1984, lives and works in São Paulo) works depart from encountered images and an analysis of the nature of painting in which linguistic codes, such as gesture, plan, surface, and representation, are understood as an alphabet, a shared vocabulary. Recently, Dunley's practice turned to gestural abstraction, without, however, leaving aside the representation of everyday objects. This is a daring project from the editorial point of view. The works are shown from the same viewing angle, with a bottom wall and a residual margin of a con...
In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter in Paris and New York, Romanian-born Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha (b.1929) suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life. When he returned to painting in 1973 it was to begin on the series of intensely observed portraits, nudes and still lifes for which he is now known worldwide. Arikha's intimate still lifes include such domestic subjects as a bundle of asparagus, a corner of his Paris studio and the books on his library shelves. His portraits range from informal studies of his close friends the playwright Samuel Beckett and the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, to striking portrayals of public figures. Acros...