Avantgarde Collages by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela, a well rounded artist based in Italy, likes to combine photography, painting, cartoon art and collage techniques into avantgarde illustrations. After specializing several years in black and white painting, the artist found a total freedom from experimenting with different materials, colors and techniques. The result? “An incredible crazy alchemy”, as the artist himself…

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Losing Art for Art’s Sake in Wang Zhiyuan’s Work

Since Marcel Duchamp exhibited his pissoir (urinal, also called “Fountain”) in New York, a real landmark in art’s history, art has never been the same. Oscar Wilde’s Art of Art’s sake has yielded to the Avantgarde’s gesture, which took precedence over the object. Now we might consider Wang Zhiyuan as one of the contemporary artists…

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