Writings on Art

Dec 2022

Brazilian Pop Art: Art As Critique of Military Regime

A research paper on the role of Brazilian Pop art as means of civil disobedience against Brazil’s oppressive regime starting in the 1960s.

Image credit: Nitsche, Marcello. I Want You. Tate London

Dec 2022

Kees van Dongen: Caricature of Women as an Avant-Garde Mechanism

An analysis of Kees van Dongen’s La donna in bianco, which contextualizes the work alongside the role of women in early 20th-century Parisian high society.

La donna in bianco (author’s photograph), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

Nov 2022

Winter Landscape with a Church

A short analysis I wrote of Caspar David Friedrich’s Winter Landscape with a Church.

Image credit: Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape with a Church (Winterlandschaft mit Kirche)

Oct 2022

Buried or Exhumed? An analysis of Seppellimento di Santa Petronilla

A short formal analysis of Seppellimento di Santa Petronilla by Guercino.

Image credit: wikipedia