The modern term art gallery is derived from the Renaissance galleries and palaces in the form of narrow rooms that were used as promenades and to exhibit art. An art gallery in general is a room or a building to display or sell works of art. Roughly, we can find three types of art galleries: commercial art galleries, with for-profit purposes and function like any other business, artists’ run galleries where …
I spent the summer of 2021 in Rome, trying to visit almost all the art galleries in the city. As it was a period without tourists due to the pandemic, it was way easier not only to visit them almost alone inside the space, but it was easier to talk with the gallerists, learn about the artists and curators they support, and collaborate. I chose three of those galleries that impressed me not only due to the quality of their work, artists, and curators but also due to the quality of their research and the way they welcome the public and educate them about what they do in general and what they exhibit currently.
Pop Art is maybe the most famous art movement in the history of art, even if someone never heard of this for sure has seen a Marilyn Monoroe portrait, or a Campbell’s Soup Can. Pop Art was born between the 1950s and 1960s and emerged in the USA and Britain, when artists started utilizing commercial…
