May 1, 2008 by M. A. Bello
The current show is a departure for Martin Naarmann (Germany, b. 1946). With these latest prints, he takes on a whole new direction. Gone are the familiar subjects of the last few years — the landscapes, the animals and people of his peculiar world, the still lifes, the social commentaries. [...]
Topics Exhibitions, Naarmann, Martin, arteBELLO onMay 1, 2008 by M. A. Bello
All images are 3 x 3 inches on 11 x 7-1/2 inch paper (SUPERALFA by GUARRO in Barcelona). On the bottom, Naarmann places a blind or embossed spiral on the left and a red stamp on the right, both of his own design. Editions are small — five to a run. [...]
Topics Naarmann, Martin onOct 8, 2007 by M. A. Bello
Oct 8, 2007 by M. A. Bello
Alfred Hentze: Ceramic Art Tiles and Plates
Alfred Hentze is an emerging artist from Guatemala. He is not really a potter or ceramist in the strict sense of the word, and he has no formal training or background in ceramics. Technically, he is a decorative painter whose canvas happens to be either terra cotta [...]
Oct 8, 2007 by M. A. Bello
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Topics Hentze, Alfred on
Dec 9, 2005 by M. A. Bello
Francisco Goya: La Tauromaquia
Casa Santo Domingo, La Antigua Guatemala
December 2005 – March 2006
There has been quite a bit of publicity recently in the local press about a discovery of sorts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP) in Guatemala City. A set of prints by the famous Spanish painter-engraver Francisco Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) has [...]
Jan 14, 2005 by M. A. Bello
La Antigua Guatemala. Text by M. A. Bello. Watercolor illustrations by N. Clement.
Northampton, MA: arteBELLO, 2005. 32 pages.
ISBN: none
The city of La Antigua Guatemala is many things to different people. To Antigüeños, it is home. The cobblestone streets and architectural ruins are their birthright. They inherit a place semi-frozen [...]
Oct 15, 2003 by M. A. Bello
Roberto González Goyri.
Dennis Leder, Bélgica Rodríguez, William Latham, Ana Lucía González and Miguel A. Bello.
Guatemala City: Editorial Antigua, 2003. 103 pages.
ISBN: 99922-722-2-8.
Order: www.macaw.com
Aug 17, 2002 by M. A. Bello
La obra de Antonia Matos.
Francisco Aguirre Matos and Desirée Berger de Aguirre. Guatemala: n.p., 2002.
ISBN: None.
Antonia Matos (1904-1994) is an almost forgotten artist in Guatemala. Her name is known among family members and a small circle of people in the arts who place her alongside Valenti, Mérida, and Garavito. She has only [...]
Nov 1, 2001 by M. A. Bello
Blanca de Fanjul: Santos
Casa Santo Domingo, La Antigua Guatemala
3-18 November 2001
Blanca de Fanjul is a self-taught mid-career artist from Guatemala. She does not, as a rule, participate in gallery shows, and she paints without any regard to the art market. Many of her works are in private collections, but the general public, for [...]