ists, was born on the Fazenda Santa Rosa coffee plantation in Brodowski in upstate São Paulo in 1903, the second of 12 children from Italian immigrants from the Veneto region of Italy. Because of his family’s poverty, he did not complete his primary education. His skill and interest in painting and drawing, evident from an early age, led Portinari to begin his formal training in painting and co...

This article views the bureaucratic form of organization as both an agent and an expression of key modern social innovations that are most clearly manifested in the non-inclusive terms by which individuals are involved in organizations. Modern human involvement in organizations epitomizes and institutionally embeds the crucial yet often overlooked cultural orientation of modernity whereby human...

Robert Motherwell’s Interior with Pink Nude (1951) resides in an uncertain space between figuration and abstraction. While the picture is a fairly straightforward composition, the multiple layers of paint on the surface and the obvious reworking and overpainting contribute to a general spatial and figural ambiguity. The two black-and-pink forms with multiple appendages are painted on a cloudy o...

In this paper the author discusses three works of video art featured in Technologies Romance symposium held at Science Museum, London, 2018. The searches within art, as a genre or medium, its technical apparatuses and particular works, for contributions to notion ‘object love’ drawn from by Hilary Geoghegan Alison Hess (2014). interprets artists’ with aim gleaning comparative examples that migh...

The article examines Vasyl Stefanyk’s novellas, stories, images, sketches, psychograms from his early collections «The Blue Booklet» (1899), «A Stone Cross» (1900), Road» (1901) and «My Word» (1905). It is observed that the peculiarity of literary process at turn ХІХth – ХХth centuries close corresponding between creative work representatives several generations:the older one (I. Nechui-Levytsk...

There is nothing new under the sun. Here, William Burroughs—adding machine fortune heir, junkie, killer of his wife, most challenging and complex of the Beat writers—describes a technique itself based on earlier experiments of the surrealists, which in turn had their origins centuries before, in techniques of very literal “cut and paste” editing. It is quite fitting that Burroughs invoked compu...

myths were created over the course of history by common people and during the past few centuries were used by sociologists and psychologists to study the primitive and quasi civilized societies. after the scientific and sociological developments of the 18th and 19th centuries in europe, many poets, playwrights, authors, and other artists started to employ their personal and innovative technique...