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THE MIRROR AND THE MASK
The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso looks at the survival and transformation of the portrait in avant-garde art between 1890 and 1990, a period that saw a radical shift in the conception of art itself. During these years, modern man’s crisis of identity and art’s crisis regarding the truth of its images particularly...
FLAMENCO AND IT'S ORIGINS
Flamenco is a genuine Spanish art, and to be more exact a genuine Southern Spanish art. It exists in three forms: Cante, the song, Baile, the dance, and Guitarra, guitar playing.
Gypsies are very often named as its fathers, and at least it can be taken for certain that they played an important part in its creation. But also the popular s...
LOS TOROS DE OSBORNE
As you roam the highways of Spain on your MoreThanSun trip, every now and then you´ll observe the silhouette of a truly gigantic black bull on the horizon up ahead. When you get closer to the creature, you realize it´s only two-dimensional, made of metal and held up by bits of scaffolding. But what´s it for? It´s not a silent homage to the...
MERIDA: GRATEFULL TO THE HISTORY
Merida, a Unesco World Heritage city. History has been generous with Mérida. Established between two watercourses, the Guadiana and the Albarregas (known as Anas
and Barraeca in Roman times) the city managed to maintain, since its foundation, a free-flowing dialogue with both rivers.
Nevertheless, rivers, subject to the uncertain will...
