At first glance this work may seem a joke, or at least, a painting imbued with a certain ironic note, because this French painter became famous as an exponent of neoclassicism. Next to works that seem more "natural" for an artist belonging to this movement ( enough to remember “The...
It will be the style. It will be the origin or the historical period. The fact is that, before Jean-Léon Gérôme, a French painter belonging to the neoclassical art movement, chose bathroom as one of his favorite subjects : the artist we are talking about is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . The work...
The bathroom is the protagonist of some of the most famous movie scenes. It’s hard to say which are the most beautiful films but we try: these are the 5 best bathroom scenes in the history of movies. Scarface (Brian de Palma, 1983). Tony Montana, one of the best Al Pacino...
The section Art in the Bathroom of Ceramica Flaminia continues: an interesting travel dedicated to the discovery of the most beautiful works of art in which appears the bathroom as representative setting that hide a complex meaning behind a use, at first sight, common and household. In this way, Botero, Lichtenstein,...
In the previous article, we focused on the concept of personal hygiene and of the wellness room. But what has been the historical path that led the bathroom to the room how we know it today? Let’s discover the main stages of development of the wellness room: Prehistory Men don’t have the...
Since the dawn of time, man has felt the need to cleanse his body. Since this cleaning instinct is born the idea of the bathroom, a place that has experienced a continuous evolution with the passing of centuries. Feeling good about onseself and with others, according to some psychologists is innate...
The '60s thanks to the rise of Pop Art represent a period of rupture in the history of: colors, representations and figurative language undergo a radical change. One of its greatest exponents was Roy Lichtenstein, which represented a new vision of America through a language very similar to the comics...
In the previous articles, Ceramica Flaminia has focused his attention on the analysis of famous paintings related to the bathroom, like the works of art by Tintoretto and Frida Kahlo. These artist are not the ones who have dedicated their imagination to paint bathroom, a place of the house that, in...
The lines and colors of the work of Frida Kahlo are traces of real life transposed upon canvas: the love for Diego Rivera, the incident, polio, Mexico. To paint was for Frida a way of talking about reality, not about dreams. In her work the profound essence of her country and...