Wise to Art

The vast majority of easel paintings in history has been executed on a rectangular surface whose proportions approximate more or less the golden number. From perfect squares to ample parallelograms, the right-angled shape is a constant.
It seems that when painting migrated from its original mural setting, the most practical surface to transpose [...]

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The vast diversity that the European continent has brought to the art of pictorial expression has been remarkable throughout the ages. The present difficulties with the current European Union show that the underlying and fundamental heterogeneity of this part of the world is still very much a reality, in spite of ongoing unification and accruing [...]

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Contrary to what has been proclaimed by most art radicals over the last decades, Art is not just anything. Art is not an instrument for levelling out social hierarchy, a means for expressing individual psychedelic experiences or to promote abstract and muddled ideas. That is, art is not in everyone’s possession, nor is it a [...]

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