In art, love often manifests itself as an excited emotion which provokes passions and challenges reason. Yet it is a major theme in many disciplines, in particular literature and painting, through the works of artists often tormented by its uncountable and unpredictable labyrinths.

We see it sometimes as destructive and obsessive, and [Read more]

MalletsA sculptor's mallet, a kind of round hammer, is most often used during trimming or hewing out with a gouge or firmer. The weight is variable, according to the task to be carried out.

Emmanuel Rudnitsky, better known as Man Ray, painter, photographer, and American filmmaker, settled down in Paris in 1921 after unsuccessfully trying establish the Dada movement in New York with his friend Marcel Duchamp.

He wasn't long in joining the Surrealists and photographed the greatest artists of his day. He invented Rayographie [Read more]

In Japan, mangas are the equivalent of our comic strips. Indeed, they are so popular and widespread that we perceive them as a true phenomenon of society in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Present in an archaic form in the 8th century, mangas really came to the fore in 1814, thanks to the caricatures of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. [Read more]

Marcelle Ferron was a Quebecois artist particularly recognized for her stained-glass windows. Born in 1924 in Louiseville, she studied art at the School of Furniture and Cabinetmaking of Montreal and the École des Beaux-Arts of Quebec. Sharing a conception of art similar to that put forth by Paul-Émile Borduas, she joined the [Read more]

Having first distinguished himself in the Dada movement in Cologne, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst joined the Parisian Surrealists in 1922.

He did not hesitate to experiment new techniques: collage, rubbing, and scratching to create abstract patterns incorporated into his painting. He began to work in sculpture during the [Read more]