We map our world in order to gain a glimpse of the reality in which we live. Since time immemorial, maps have been used to represent, translate and encode all kinds of physical, mental and emotional territories. Our representation of the world has ...

Following the success of the exhibitions that the organisations they represent have jointly organised in Spain in recent years, Isidre Fainé, president of "la Caixa", and Henri Loyrette, president and director of the Louvre Museum, are to sign a new ...

Engraver, painter, poet. The archetypal complete artist, William Blake (London, 1757-1827) was widely misunderstood and scorned in his day. However, he now unquestionably occupies a prominent position in the history of western culture thanks to his ...

Humanity has long felt driven to build ever upwards, to conquer the sky. The desire to erect constructions that are visible from afar, that act as symbols of prosperity, progress, development and power, is implicit in the very idea of architecture.

In his working methods, Giambattista Piranesi (Venice, 1720 ? Rome, 1778) was a precursor of the role played by architects and designers today. Now, for the first time, an exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid highlights Piranesi's modernity in an ...

Nearly two hundred years after his death, Francisco de Goya continues to exercise a universal attraction that very few others in the history of art have equalled. Not only is Goya enveloped in the greatness of his art and his genius, he is also ...

This morning Isidro Fainé, president of “la Caixa" and the “la Caixa" Foundation, and Jaume Giró, executive officer of “la Caixa" and deputy general manager of the “la Caixa" Foundation, presided the ceremony to present the football player, Xavi ...

"When I paint a picture, I am not writing a thought". Eugène Delacroix questioned the need for a theme in painting. According to the great French artist, what created emotion on a canvas were its artistic values ? material, light, colour ? rather ...

Throughout the 20th century, geometry was an inseparable companion of avantgarde art. Whether promoting an ideal of purity, silencing anything alien to its shapes or speaking of the world once again, geometry provided formalisations for a broad ...