A famous Surrealist technique, Cadavre exquis consists in creating a poem or a drawing in a group. On a piece of paper, each participant writes down a sentence or draws something that he hides from the following person by folding the piece of paper. Once the game is finished, a striking story or image formed by these various elements appears. [Read more]

A still-life is a kind of painting in the same fashion as the nude, portrait, landscape, or seascape. The expression designates both the genre and the work. A still-life reproduces a set of beings or inanimate objects such as lifeless animals, fruits, vegetables, etc.

The term "mobile" designates in art history a creation both suspended and in movement. During the 30's, Alexander Calder exhibited some 30 works of Kinetic Art, certain of which were driven by an engine. It was Marcel Duchamp who then baptized these sculptures "mobiles" and popularized the name.

In a general way, we call "craftsmanship" the work of a single person or group with a limited number of individuals who manually produce an object and use only a limited variety of tools and materials. However, the term is greatly contested, since no-one agrees on what it should designate or exclude.

Craftsmen are generally [Read more]

For some, fresco designates primarily a mural of large dimension, but it is first and foremost a technique of painting. To paint with fresco, one applies paint diluted with water on a non-dried mortar filler (buon fresco). The peculiarity of fresco is that it is effectively merged with the wall itself: fresco and wall thus become one. The term [Read more]

The appellation of Naïve architecture was especially created to designate Ferdinand Cheval's work. Highly demanding in terms of time as well as money, this type of creation sometimes stands out as the achievement of a lifetime, and gives rise to places strongly charged in emotion and symbolism.

Among the most famous constructions of [Read more]