Henry Ballate M.F.A. is University Professor of Art History. Specializes in Modern art and contemporary art, with particular interests in classical iconography, from the Renaissance to popular culture images. Henry has over 20 years of combined experience as a Visual artist and graphic designer. Henry’s artwork is instantly recognizable through his use of well-known visual arts iconography. His pieces use historical works of art that deal with provocative and suggestive themes as a foundation augmenting them with today’s popular images. He creates these works by mixing traditional methods of painting with innovative techniques creating new works that are rooted in art history while retaining contemporary relevance. Throughout his career, Henry’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, America, and Asia.
LnS GALLERY continues its third Season of the Arts with Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity. Collaborative research and a strong community-based passion for the work of Alfonzo – an important historical creative pioneer […]
Ilan Stavans – Jorge J. E. Gracia Durante los últimos años, el crítico cultural Ilan Stavans y el filósofo analítico Jorge J. E. Gracia han participado en una serie de diálogos sobre […]
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. John Lennon El collage se hace […]
Why do we so seldom see people smiling in painted portraits? Nicholas Jeeves explores the history of the smile through the ages of portraiture, from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner’s photographs of […]
Después de 1959, en Cuba cientos de tesoros nacionales fueron destruidos o confiscados, entre ellos una suma de artefactos de la cultura griega que más tarde aparece en la Unión Soviética, dando […]
El pasado Junio 03 de 2017, se inauguró la Exposición “Perfiles” de Astrid Alcayaga, artista de la plástica, la muestra estará hasta el día Junio 30 de 2017, en la galería Art Emporium, ubicada en 710 […]
Appropriation in Art by Henry Ballate Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp; Born in Normandy in northern France, (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968). Duchamp traveled back and forth between Europe and the United States […]
“It is the highest function of art to tell us who we are.” John Russell. Vargas Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Department at Vargas University, is proud to present Nuevos Caprichos, […]
The Americas Collection Fine Art presenta la exhibición THE INSTANT OF WATER de Luis Vegade el próximo Jueves 16 de Febrero en el 4213 Ponce de León Blvd, Coral Gables, de 7pm. a […]
Marcel Duchamp: His use of irony, puns, alliteration, and paradox. Embodying the intellect of his literary contemporaries Marcel Proust and James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been aptly described by the painter […]
