Every year, on March 3rd, World Wildlife Day is celebrated, to draw attention to the “moral obligation” to preserve the Earth, from which essential products for human survival are extracted.UN chief Guterres stressed that wildlife is in danger, recalling that damage to the natural world ultimately threatens the existence and well-being of all individuals. Who are the artists who have produced work related to sustainability? Learn more in this article.

The futurist manifesto, published on February 20, 1909 in the French newspaper “Le Figaro”, was the starting point for the emergence of several cultural vanguards that dominated Europe in the 20th century. In the Manifesto, Italian poet Filippo Marinetti extolled the beauty of machines, speed, light and rupture compared to Greek statues. Discover the history of one of the most important movements of the 20th century here:

The 20th century was marked by great social, political, economic changes and, simultaneously, in the artistic world, the expansion of the concept of art.In the 1960s, environmental and ecological concerns began to emerge in the field of arts, with artists questioning, in their works, our own survival and the consequences of human action on natural resources.Bordalo II, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thomas Hirschhorn produce works of art that transmit and provoke a transformation in society.Do artists believe they are changing the world through their artistic actions? Find out in this article.

After the Second World War, a new expression emerged in the art world, developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. In the midst of the cold war, Jackson Pollock's works expressed the idea of freedom that the United States intended to communicate to the rest of the world. Thus, this movement was embraced due to its impression of spontaneity and as a way to “fight” Russian figurative art. For the artists, this movement, characterized by spontaneous gestural brushstrokes, was a way of expressing their emotions in an abstract way, as the name implies.