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The work of largely self-taught artist Léon Spilliaert lives in a dreamy ghost-like space between Symbolism and Expressionism. Created mainly through ink, gouache, watercolour, pencils, chalk, Conté crayon and pastel, Spilliaert produced strange and moody, dramatically lit self-portraits and eerie landscapes of his home town of Ostend on the Belgian coast. As with his compatriot … Continue reading "Léon Spilliaert: A Mysterious World Between Light And Darkness" The post Léon Spilliaert: A Mysterious World Between Light And Darkness appeared first on Flashbak.
Imposing and impenetrable, Renaissance palaces were a distinctive urban feature of sixteenth-century Rome. Designed to command respect with their towering façades, these buildings proclaimed the power of the noble families living within them. But hidden away in Trastevere, another kind of Renaissance dwelling appeared, one that departs from the rigid grandeur of those city […]
