Artist Portraits
Hector Acevedo, inspiration that comes from dreams
Oct 22, 2022
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5 minutes read
Hector Acevedo's work is a reflection of his life experience. During these long years of painterly experimentation, he has achieved a peculiar handling of color; through glazing that has led to the achievement of greater intensity, luminosity and expressive power of color...
Art History
The most popular artists of 2023
Jan 23, 2024
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12 minutes read
Who are some of Artmajeur's most popular artists in 2023? Find out in this story, which talks about contemporary artists by contextualizing them within the long narrative of art history!
Art History
Pollock's dripping in the artworks of Artmajeur's artists
Nov 19, 2021
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6 minutes read
Action Painting, an artistic form of Abstract Expressionism, has valued for the first time in the history of art the phase of creation of the works, that is, the creative act. The latter is highlighted because it represents the pure expression of the artist's psyche, emotions and vital energies. The "dripping" is a painting technique very dear to the Action Paintig, that Jackson Pollock did not invent, but perfected...
Artist Portraits
Simona Zecca, a continuous search
Apr 22, 2023
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6 minutes read
I cannot remember a single time in my life when I have not painted. I am a self-taught artist, curious and constantly seeking to learn new techniques and modes of expression...
Art History
In which ways does African art influence contemporary artists?
Mar 23, 2022
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5 minutes read
The fact that the most ancient origins of humankind are to be found in Africa is now irrefutable. However, this continent has also been decisive in the development of figurative arts, since African art has succeeded in shaping the culture of the world with its particular styles. But how have these influences been expressed in contemporary art?
Lifestyle
Sofia Coppola: A Cinematic Visionary and Art Enthusiast
Sep 14, 2023
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6 minutes read
Sofia Coppola is an accomplished American filmmaker known for her unique cinematic style and award-winning films like "Lost in Translation." She is also recognized as an art lover, with a keen appreciation for visual aesthetics that often permeate her work.
Artist Portraits
Alexandra Efimova: I constantly experiment
Feb 9, 2024
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6 minutes read
"For me, art is a means of broadcasting my feelings and thoughts, my personal connection with the cosmos and the opportunity to share my impressions with my viewer through symbols and signs."...
Artist Portraits
Svetlana Shavrina: my painting Focuses on the good things
Jun 17, 2024
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6 minutes read
"I believe that my painting Focuses on the good things I write and brings people positive thoughts . I usually use bright and light colours for oil works."...
Artist Portraits
Christos Kapralos: A Master of Greek Sculpture
Aug 13, 2024
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6 minutes read
Christos Kapralos, one of Greece's most esteemed sculptors, is celebrated for his ability to convey deep emotion and national identity through his work. His artistic expression, rooted in a profound connection to his cultural heritage, combines modernist influences with traditional Greek elements...
Lifestyle
Feel Like an Artist: Turn Your Memories into Works of Art
Mar 31, 2025
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5 minutes read
Through art people possess the exceptional ability to convey feelings while maintaining recollection and developing original products. The process of expressing your personal memories through art becomes simultaneously satisfying when combined with its deep personal significance regardless of art experience.
Artist Portraits
Keith Haring: The Vibrant Voice of Street Art
Jun 24, 2024
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14 minutes read
Keith Haring was an iconic American artist known for his vibrant, bold, and energetic artwork that often featured a mix of symbols, figures, and patterns. His unique style transcended traditional art boundaries, transforming everyday urban spaces into dynamic canvases...
Art History
Family portraits
Dec 21, 2021
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6 minutes read
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...
Artist Portraits
Aleksandr Ilichev, constant, incessant need to paint
Sep 17, 2022
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7 minutes read
Alexander Ilyichev, an artist born in 1958, is constantly driven by a strong and constant need to draw, which leads him to create unique works with a highly recognizable style...
Lifestyle
Kong Karoon Sosothikul: Between Music, Fashion and Artistic Passion
Aug 9, 2023
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7 minutes read
Kong Karoon Sosothikul, Thai actor and singer, embodies a fusion of music, fashion and artistic passion. Having become famous in the field of entertainment, he shares his love for contemporary art through the EchoOne Nanzuka initiative, linking his fame to a creative and enriching platform.
Artist Portraits
Yaroslav Kurbanov: I was born into a family of artists
Aug 6, 2024
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6 minutes read
"I was born into a family of artists and painting became as natural for me as eating, sleeping or reading. Art in our family was the medium of existence. Painting, sculpture, music, literature, theatre, and eventually cinema - all these varieties of art were interesting to me."...
Artist Portraits
Yuehua He: I underwent a rigorous study
Dec 3, 2024
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7 minutes read
"I have undergone rigorous basic study and training since I was a child. When I was a teenager, I drew nearly a hundred sketches of plaster statues. My method was to first spend dozens of hours on in-depth study and characterization, and then, divorced from the actual objects, I drew silently from memory."...
Artist Portraits
Xu Bing, the artist who reinvents language and culture
Mar 18, 2025
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6 minutes read
Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist whose work explores the links between writing, communication and cultural identity through iconic pieces such as Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground . Internationally acclaimed and awarded numerous prizes, he navigates between tradition and modernity, East and West, integrating calligraphy, new technologies and monumental installations to question our relationship with language.
Art History
Traditional Chinese Landscapes
Jan 9, 2022
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6 minutes read
Landscape painting, known as Shan shui (mountain and water), deals with the highest, most widespread and appreciated theme of traditional Chinese art, in order to express the artist's feelings, ideas and spiritual conception, rather than a faithful reproduction of nature...
Artist Portraits
Oleksandr Balbyshev, bright paintings
Aug 31, 2022
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7 minutes read
Oleksandr Balbyshev makes very bright paintings through the use of fluorescent colors, metallic and interferential paints and gold leaf...
Artist Portraits
Tetiana Bogdanova, art that gives people positive emotions
Dec 10, 2022
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7 minutes read
Art has always been a part of Tetiana's family: she and her sisters drew, her grandfather's brothers painted pictures...
Artist Portraits
Manuel Di Chiara
Jul 26, 2023
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8 minutes read
I consider myself lucky because I had good art teachers from the very first schools, and they are the ones who always encouraged me to pursue art studies.
Artist Portraits
Stanislav Bojankov: The beginning is always somewhere in childhood
Mar 24, 2025
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7 minutes read
"I have tried everything. At earlier stages I worked in more realistic forms and genres such as landscape, portrait and figurative, later some genre and stylistic changes began in the direction of abstraction and associativity, in the direction of musical sensations and vibrations, related to the abstract and subconscious recreation of sensations, feelings, emotions. In search of other channels of communication, expression and subjective perception"...
Artist Portraits
Jean-Marie Gitard (M. STRANGE), works of art with a surprise effect
Oct 1, 2022
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8 minutes read
Mr. STRANGE's works are characterized by surprise, surrealism, strangeness, eccentricity and oddity, born from an extremely productive contemplation of Google images...
Art History
6 Things to Know about Berthe Morisot
Sep 24, 2021
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7 minutes read
Independent and indispensable to Impressionism, Berthe Morisot is an UFO in the history of Art. Like Frida Kahlo, Niki de Saint Phalle, Artemisia Gentileschi or Suzanne Valandon, she’s a woman in a men’s world, who managed to impose herself and convert the difficulties of her existence into creative gunpowder.
Art History
Top 10 Must-See Artists of the Month!
Jul 30, 2024
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7 minutes read
The Artmajeur curators, despite the summer heat, continue to work with great zeal for their most important cause: spreading art around the world! By reviewing sales results and clicks on the website, they have created three extraordinary collections that bring together the works of the most popular, trendy, best-selling and most sought-after artists of the moment....
Artist Portraits
Pierre Ittner: Art for processing emotions
Oct 29, 2024
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8 minutes read
“Art offers me the opportunity to process emotions, question things and see the world from a new perspective.”
Artist Portraits
Paul Laurenzi: Art is an escape
Feb 26, 2025
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8 minutes read
"As a child, I drew a lot. It was a good way for me to escape. I also liked looking at art books. I felt close to these famous artists who had followed their path."
Artist Portraits
Irena Aizen, the psychology of human interrelationships
Jul 23, 2022
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8 minutes read
Irena Aizen's figurative production carries forward the goal of investigating subjects of personal interest to the artist. In fact, Aizen's works often analyze the psychology of human interrelationships, represented through the prism of naive and childlike perception of the world...
Art History
Sacred palms, profane palms
Nov 7, 2023
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8 minutes read
Reality can be interpreted simply as it appears, or it can be transformed into something more meaningful, through, for example, an encounter with religious ideology...
Art History
Color and Beyond: How Modern Art Transformed Reality
Nov 19, 2024
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8 minutes read
Discover how color, from Impressionism to digital art, has liberated art from the confines of visible reality, transforming it into a tool of emotion, symbol, and celebration. This journey through color explores key movements such as Fauvism, monochromes, and Pop Art...
Artist Portraits
Guillaume Brun, inspired by the audiovisual arts
Jan 28, 2023
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9 minutes read
"As far as I can go back in my memories, drawing has always been present. His interest was transmitted to me by my mother who, at the time, painted portraits"...
Art History
Shall we sunbathe with Edward Hopper?
May 3, 2023
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9 minutes read
The invitation that resonates in my title will not surprise Edward Hopper aficionados, who will surely have noticed the accuracy by which the American master, by way of cinematic framing, skillfully arranges the light within his paintings...
Art History
Masterpieces dressed in purple
Jun 7, 2023
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8 minutes read
There are three masterpieces in the history of art, placed between the pictorial and photographic worlds, aimed at immortalizing the same subject, staring confidently at the viewer, while wearing a detail, the coloring of which is the subject of the discussion at hand: purple...
Art History
The line: basis of figurativism, meaning of abstractionism
Jun 11, 2023
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8 minutes read
Introducing the subject of "linear" with the above definition, I proceed by adding that the above-mentioned geometric figure represents a fundamental dynamic element of visual communication, having the function of shaping...
Art History
Social media and apps enter art...
Sep 2, 2023
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9 minutes read
Surely social media was not intended for the circulation of quality information, ready to promote the betterment of consciousness development, but each of us, free to act, could actually make an effort to spread and create something meaningful...
Artist Portraits
Hurvin Anderson: Exploring Identity and Place Through Art
Sep 20, 2024
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9 minutes read
Hurvin Anderson is a prominent British painter known for his exploration of memory, identity, and cultural history, often focusing on his Jamaican heritage. His work blends abstraction and figuration, depicting spaces that reflect the complexities of diaspora life...