Visual Arts — Page 5

Edward Hopper: Light, Architecture and Modern Solitude

The life, paintings and legacy of Edward Hopper, whose silent interiors and urban scenes made solitude visible in modern American art.

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Pablo Picasso: Reinvention, Cubism and the Power of Guernica

The life, achievements and contradictions of Pablo Picasso, from the Blue Period and Cubism to Guernica and his immense influence on modern art.

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Paul Gauguin: Colour, Myth and the Colonial Gaze

The life, artistic innovations and colonial controversies of Paul Gauguin, a central yet deeply contested figure of Post-Impressionism.

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Kukuli Velarde: Identity, Ceramics and Critical Memory

The career of Kukuli Velarde, a Peruvian artist whose ceramics, painting and performance confront identity, gender and colonial representation.

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Wifredo Lam: Caribbean Modernism, Exile and Resistance

The life and legacy of Wifredo Lam, the Cuban painter who joined international modernism with Afro-Cuban history, ritual and anticolonial resistance.

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Richard Dadd: Fantasy, Precision and Victorian Tragedy

The life, crime and extraordinary paintings of Richard Dadd, the Victorian artist who created intricate imaginary worlds during decades of confinement.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Rome, Ruins and Imaginary Prisons

The life, prints and architectural imagination of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who transformed ancient Rome and impossible prisons into modern visual experiences.

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Keith Haring: Public Art, Graphic Rhythm and Activism

The life and legacy of Keith Haring, whose radiant figures carried an immediate visual language from the New York subway into museums and social campaigns.

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Edvard Munch: Memory, Anxiety and The Scream

The life, works and legacy of Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist who transformed illness, desire, grief and anxiety into a modern visual language.

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