The ARTe Project

This week Monday Morning ARTe tells the tale of an artist who founded an art movement with the idea of being a bridge between primitive art and the future. Unfortunately his own glimpse of the future put him in an insane asylum. Enjoy the story and have a great week!

I've always been fascinated by Pablo Picasso's evolution as an artist. Lining up his work from Realism to Cubism is rather like watching a college student mature into wizened, mature man. He had human flaws, including envy, greed and narcissism. Yet in a Spanish form of wabi-sabi he always managed to fill the holes left by those flaws with something beautiful.

A critical pivot point in his evolution took place in the almost inaccessible smuggler's mountain paradise of Gosol in 1906, he found a statue that changed the direction of his artistic journey.

His trek through the mountains, accompanied by only his mistress, and the art he created that summer is the subject of this week's Monday Morning ARTe. Take a few minutes and start your week with something both beautiful and provocative.

https://substack.com//p-155157055

Indiana Jones searches for the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail were just some figment of Steven Spielberg's fertile imagination, read this week's Monday Morning ARTe. There really was a piece of art coveted by the N***s for its link to a religious artifact with imagined healing powers. There were castles and adventurous archaeologists involved as well. Start your week with an exciting story, and a beautiful piece of art.

A Real Life Indiana Jones Thriller Did you ever wondered whether Indiana Jones’ search for the holy grail had any basis in fact?

For the first Monday of 2025 we tell the story behind Titian's "poesies," a series of dramatic paintings based on Ovid's Metamorphosis. You might say these paintings paved the way for Modern Art many centuries in the future. Join Substack for free and start your year with something beautiful ... and a story. https://thearteproject.substack.com

How to create poetry with paint The history of art turned when a powerful man and one with talent went through a personal metamorphosis together