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  Gerhard Richter artwork is full of tension between reality of the painting and the reality created by the painting itself: process and material. Richter is known for his photo-paintings, particularly his landscapes, and his complex abstract artwork. Despite the vastness of his artistic work, commonly poorly interpreted as polar, …

  Dyeing in the 19th and 20th centuries. The discovery of new dyes. Over the centuries the evolution of fashion was a result of a rather balanced mediation between cultural factors, such as the symbolism of color, and material imperatives, such as nature and the availability of raw materials as …

FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE FRANCE OF ROI SOLEIL The Renaissance witnessed the height, but also the beginning of the decline of the textile industry on the peninsula. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the Italian style, with its classicism, fullness and harmonious colors, spread throughout Europe. This style …