
Kat Bello
Kat is an artist and writer. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and completed a cinema course at Bell State University. She currently works as a writer and a museum mediator. Her research and art production focus on cityscape painting and the historiography of landscapes.
Articles by Kat Bello

Georges Méliès created worlds of magic and adventure that revolutionized filmmaking when filmmaking itself was still a novelty.

Understand American film noir with 11 genre-defining films from the 1940s and 1950s featuring cynical storylines and dark expressionist visuals.
Understand American film noir with 11 genre-defining films from the 1940s and 1950s featuring cynical storylines and dark expressionist visuals.

Discover the top 10 most amazing open-air museums worldwide, perfect for those who love to immerse themselves in both nature and art.
Discover the top 10 most amazing open-air museums worldwide, perfect for those who love to immerse themselves in both nature and art.

Surrealist cinema has brought the depths of the subconscious to the screens. Here are 10 essential movies to understand surrealism in movies.
Surrealist cinema has brought the depths of the subconscious to the screens. Here are 10 essential movies to understand surrealism in movies.

Jane Austen’s unique novel Northanger Abbey is a gothic parody with a coming-of-age heart.
Jane Austen’s unique novel Northanger Abbey is a gothic parody with a coming-of-age heart.

Get to know 10 surrealist sculptors who bring dreams, the fantastical, and the subconscious to tangible tridimensionality.

The relationship between Edward Hopper and cinema is one of mutual inspiration, as unique as it is enduring.
The relationship between Edward Hopper and cinema is one of mutual inspiration, as unique as it is enduring.

Here are 10 movies essential to understanding film noir, the most stylishly cruel genre of Hollywood history.

Relational Aesthetics is an artistic tendency that makes human connections the central subject of art.
Relational Aesthetics is an artistic tendency that makes human connections the central subject of art.

Before German Expressionism of the 1920s changed cinema forever, it would make its way to Hollywood and shape the hard-boiled detective genre of Film Noir.

Find out the meaning, history, and impact of the dark thrillers Film Noir, Old Hollywood’s most complex and creative body of work.
Find out the meaning, history, and impact of the dark thrillers Film Noir, Old Hollywood’s most complex and creative body of work.

German Expressionism was the angsty, stylized, and intense postwar cinema of Weimar Germany. The nightmarish shadows and innovative compositions revolutionized filmmaking forever.
German Expressionism was the angsty, stylized, and intense postwar cinema of Weimar Germany. The nightmarish shadows and innovative compositions revolutionized filmmaking forever.