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Netherlands ready to spend $ 198m on Rothschild-owned Rembrandt self-portrait
Dec 13, 2021
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The Netherlands is willing to spend $198 million to permanently return a Rembrandt Self-Portrait to the Netherlands. Since 1844, the picture has belonged to the French Rothschild family. The purchase has not yet been completed because the Dutch government is awaiting parliament approval.
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Discovered Beneath a Van Gogh Painting is a Self-Portrait
Jul 18, 2022
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X-rays performed on a Van Gogh painting revealed a previously undiscovered self-portrait on the reverse. A bearded man's face was discovered beneath layers of glue and cardboard on the back of an early work.
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Staff Mistakenly Disposes of Museum's Beer Can Artwork
Oct 9, 2024
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A museum faces a unique dilemma as beer can artwork gets tossed in a cleanup mishap due to a staff mistake. Read the full story.
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Guillaume Corneille: A Vibrant Visionary of Modern Art
Aug 7, 2024
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Guillaume Corneille, a pivotal figure in modern art, is celebrated for his vibrant and imaginative works that burst with color and emotion. His unique expression blends abstraction with figurative elements, creating a distinct style that captivates viewers with its exuberance and depth...
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Germany has more private museums of modern art than the United States
Jun 13, 2023
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Larry's List, a business that keeps track of art collectors, says that there are now 446 private museums around the world, 111 of which have opened since 2016.
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Igors Gengeris, "figurative Linearism"
Feb 19, 2022
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The painting of Igors Gengeris, which some critics call "Linearism", tries to approach the understanding of the language of God: the art...
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A UNESCO report worries about an unprecedented crisis in the cultural sector
Feb 9, 2022
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UNESCO report warns of "unprecedented crisis in the cultural sector". Ten million jobs lost in the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic. UNESCO urges governments to strengthen labor protections for the creative sector. Arts funding is frequently cut by governments or ignored by private investors. By 2020, the global gross value of the creative industry will have decreased by $750 billion.
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Julien Sunyé - The war isn't over
Sep 12, 2019
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The bodies are beautiful, and they are naked. But facing the light, facing the autumnal nature, facing the monuments that emerge, these naked bodies are only a vain counterpoint to the battles that may have taken place in these places.
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Two museums buy together a masterpiece that they will exhibit in turn
Apr 4, 2023
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"Portrait of Mai (Omai)" by Joshua Reynolds is thought to be one of the most important early portraits of a person of color in Britain. In an innovative arrangement, it will travel between London and Los Angeles.
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Jef Aérosol: Bridging the Gap Between Ephemeral Street Art and Lasting Impact
Jul 22, 2024
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8 minutes read
Jean-François Perroy, known as Jef Aérosol, is a renowned 67-year-old French stencil artist born in Nantes on January 15, 1957, who has significantly influenced urban art since the 1980s with his iconic works and contributions to the street art movement.
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The Rijksmuseum opens the largest collection of Vermeer paintings ever on display today
Feb 10, 2023
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The Rijksmuseum has opened a Vermeer show with 28 paintings, 10 rooms, and hundreds of meters of velvet curtain, the largest collection of Vermeer paintings ever shown.
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Viktor Sheleg: Instinct and Color as Language
Jan 8, 2025
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Viktor Sheleg is a contemporary Latvian artist whose works blend sensuality, abstraction, and color with a unique intensity. Driven by international recognition and a deeply personal style, he has established himself as a powerful voice in contemporary figurative art.
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René Daniëls: The Visionary Painter Who Bridged Abstraction and Language
Mar 24, 2025
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René Daniëls is a Dutch painter known for his conceptual and expressive approach to painting, blending art history, literature, and cultural references with wit and ambiguity. Emerging in the late 1970s, he gained international recognition in the 1980s and remains influential in contemporary art, with works housed in major museums worldwide.
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Brent Wadden: Weaving Modernism into the Threads of Craft
Apr 7, 2025
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Brent Wadden creates abstract woven works that merge painting, design, craft, and folk art. By mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, he blurs the boundaries between craft and painting. His use of repetition through warp and weft welcomes imperfections and variations, highlighting subtle disruptions in line, color, and form...
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Jean-Michel Yon: A Painter of Emotion and Light
Feb 3, 2025
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Jean-Michel Yon is an award-winning contemporary painter whose works, blending Impressionism and expressive figuration, capture the atmosphere and emotion of urban and natural landscapes. Thanks to his artistic sensibility and timeless style, his paintings attract a growing audience and are establishing themselves as rising stars on the art market.
Art History
Art: shock news about dripping!
Mar 1, 2023
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Placing this story within the history of the dripping technique, I begin, for the moment in an understandable way, by talking about Janel Sobel instead of Jackson Pollock, in order to illustrate the life and artistic journey of a painter, who, still under-appreciated, actually drastically changed the fortunes of the art world, as well as the abstract approach of the aforementioned and well-known American master...
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Piet Mondrian
Apr 6, 2023
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a Dutch artist and a pioneer of abstract art. He was closely associated with the De Stijl movement, a Dutch artistic and design movement founded on principles of simplicity and harmony. His signature style, characterized by a grid of vertical and horizontal lines and blocks of primary colors, became the hallmark of the movement.
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Isa Genzken's Take on Modern Consumer Culture Through Art
Nov 18, 2024
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Isa Genzken is a groundbreaking German contemporary artist known for her innovative sculptures, installations, and multimedia works that explore themes of modernity, urban life, and consumer culture. Her art is characterized by the use of diverse materials and found objects, often blending high and low culture to create thought-provoking, avant-garde pieces.
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Thomas Schütte: A Master of Monumental Art and Cultural Reflection
Sep 25, 2024
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Thomas Schütte is a renowned German contemporary artist known for his wide-ranging work in sculpture, printmaking, drawing, architecture, and installations. His art explores themes of cultural memory, human shelter, and the human condition, often combining individual experiences with broader societal narratives.
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Iryna Kastsova, I still continue to experiment with techniques and styles
Sep 8, 2023
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"I started painting at the age of 5 with watercolors when I wanted to become an artist. Every summer I spent with my grandmother in the village."
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Maria Tuzhilkina: Artificial intelligence is entering our modern life!
Aug 16, 2024
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"I have been drawing since childhood, I cannot imagine my life without paints, canvas, paper, pencils, the material is not important - the main thing is to draw. For me it’s like breathing, I throw out my emotions, on the contrary, I relax and fill up."...
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Stefano Catalini: During my teenage years, I began to reproduce paintings by the Macchiaioli painters
Nov 12, 2024
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“As a child, around the age of 6, I enjoyed modeling the clay present near the house, also with my paternal grandfather I made small wooden toys.”...
Art History
Top 10: Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits
Apr 23, 2023
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My introduction to the contrary takes the latter meaning in that it aims to omit, only temporarily, both the description of Vincent Van Gogh's multiple self-portraits and the analysis of their historical-artistic, technical, emotional, and stylistic context of belonging...
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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
Apr 12, 2023
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"Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow" is a painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, created in 1930. Mondrian's use of a grid of black lines and colored rectangles creates a sense of balance and harmony in the painting. The primary colors of red, blue, and yellow are arranged in a way that suggests movement and energy. It is considered one of the most important works of abstract art and an iconic representation of the De Stijl movement and Neoplasticism style.
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Affordable Art Fair Berlin 2025: accessible art returns to the German capital
Mar 21, 2025
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After the great success of its inaugural edition in 2024, the Affordable Art Fair Berlin returns for its second edition in June 2025, reaffirming itself as an unmissable event for contemporary art lovers...
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Santicri: Creating is my passion
May 7, 2024
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Creating has always been my passion since childhood. After my studies, I found myself working as a resin craftsman, coming into close contact with sculptures and design elements...
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Glenn Brown: Master of Visual Metamorphosis
Sep 20, 2024
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Glenn Brown is a highly acclaimed British contemporary artist celebrated for his intricate reimagining of art historical references, pushing the boundaries of painting and sculpture through bold appropriation and transformation. Renowned for his detailed, often surreal works, Brown has exhibited at prestigious institutions worldwide, and his pieces are held in major public collections such as the British Museum, Tate, and MoMA.
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Rainer Fetting: Mastering Figurative Power in Neo-Expressionism
Oct 15, 2024
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Rainer Fetting is a renowned contemporary German artist internationally recognized for his extensive body of expressive figurative paintings, which encompass a wide range of subjects, as well as his numerous bronze sculptures.
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Lita Cabellut: A Visionary Artist Rooted in Tradition and Innovation
Jan 27, 2025
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Lita Cabellut (born in 1961) is a Spanish artist known for her multidisciplinary approach. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she creates on a grand scale, employing a modern adaptation of the traditional fresco technique...
Art History
The Hidden Image of Cupid Revealed in a Vermeer Painting restored in Germany
Aug 26, 2021
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The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, launched a major restoration two years ago to reveal a Cupid that was hidden beneath layers of paint. The museum's painting gallery, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, will host the restored canvas for the first time in September.
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Family portraits
Dec 21, 2021
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At this time of year-end, full of important holidays, family gatherings follow each other convulsively. In this regard, many of the greatest masters in the history of art, such as, for example, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Egon Schiele, have immortalized, through the most varied feelings, such scenes of daily life...
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Contemporary self-portrait: between selfie and tradition
Mar 13, 2022
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Every day about 93 million selfies are taken all over the world, which, for the most part, are intended to enrich social platforms, with the aim of grabbing a few handfuls of likes. But are we sure that this new trend, apparently very superficial, has not traced deep attitudes, already investigated by the greatest masters of the past?
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Andreas Gursky: Virtuoso of Large-Scale Photography and Digital Manipulation
Sep 26, 2024
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Andreas Gursky is a renowned German photographer known for his large-scale, digitally manipulated images that explore themes of globalization, architecture, and contemporary society. His work often features expansive views from elevated perspectives and achieves some of the highest auction prices in the world of photography.
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Eberhard Havekost: Redefining Perception in Contemporary Painting
Oct 29, 2024
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Eberhard Havekost was a German painter known for his hyperrealistic yet abstracted depictions of modern life, exploring themes of perception, media, and digital influence on everyday experience. His work challenged viewers to question the authenticity of images in a world increasingly mediated by technology, earning him a significant place in contemporary art.
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Neil Jenney's "Bad Painting": Where Idealism Meets Realism
Oct 31, 2024
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Neil Jenney is an American painter known for his unique "Bad Painting" style, a term coined to describe his anti-illusionistic, rough-edged figurative works that challenge traditional realism. His art, often blending humor with social commentary, became notable in the 1960s and 1970s for its direct and narrative-driven approach to conceptual realism.
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Cars & art
Apr 24, 2022
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The link between artists and the automobile is evident in the greatest masterpieces of art of all time, namely in sculptures, paintings, photographs and prints, which have immortalized this iconic means of locomotion, following multiple points of view and figurative techniques...