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March 2024
![Portrait of Helena de Kay. Retrato de Helena de Kay, c. 1872](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/imagen/obras/1983.25_retrato-helena-kay.jpg)
Helena de Kay: Apropos of Artistic Careers, Letters and Flowers
Clara Marcellán
In 2023, a series of events shed new light on the universe of Helena de Kay (1846–1916), the model for a small oil painting by Winslow Homer (1836–1910) whose sources of inspiration and significance we are still exploring.
![Summer Clouds. Emil Nilde, Nubes de verano, 1913 Summer Clouds. Emil Nolde, Nubes de verano, 1913](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/imagen/2019-10/NOLDE%2C%20Emil_Nubes%20de%20verano_691%20%281972.12%29_HUM%20%23F21_0.jpg)
Emil Nolde and Nazism
Paloma Alarcó
‘Happy the man who can talk himself into believing that culture can safeguard society against violence. Even before the start of the twentieth century, the artists, the poets and the theoreticians of the Modernist movement showed that the opposite was true’, wrote Hans Magnus Enzensberger a few decades ago. He went on to state that ‘their predilection for crime, for the satanic outsider, for the destruction of civilization is notorious’.
![The Key of the Fields (La Clef des champs), 1936 The Key of the Fields (La Clef des champs), 1936](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/imagen/2023-10/MAGRITTE%2C%20Rene_La%20clef%20des%20champs_657%20%281976.3%29_0.jpg)
Magritte, Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language: Between the Poetry of Mystery and the Philosophy of Visual Language
José Luis Calderón Aguirrezabala
Magritte’s paintings evoke certain human mysteries in a sort of visual poetry, often leaving the viewer in suspense, engrossed in thought or subsequent questioning. Philosophy aspires, with varying success, to provide rational answers to the mysteries of humankind.