Art History
David LaChapelle
Jul 5, 2023
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11 minutes read
David LaChapelle is an American photographer and director known for his distinctive and surreal style of photography. He gained fame for his work in fashion, celebrity portraiture, and commercial advertising, producing iconic and visually striking images that often blur the lines between fine art and commercial photography.
Lifestyle
Jorge and Darlene Pérez: a significant contributions to the Miami art scene
Dec 21, 2023
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11 minutes read
Real-estate magnate Jorge M. Pérez had already established himself as a prominent figure in Miami long before a somewhat controversial decision in 2013 to rename the Miami Art Museum in his honor caused a stir...
Artist Portraits
Sviatlana Petushkova, art as a means of self-acceptance
Jan 30, 2022
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5 minutes read
All of Sviatlana Petushkova's works are created from life. She depicts only real, living people to promote self-acceptance, opposing the canons of beauty imposed by our society...
Artist Portraits
Nemanja Nikolic: my creative process is highly intuitive
Oct 1, 2024
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5 minutes read
"I have always been drawn to visuals, and early on, I knew I wanted to communicate through art. Growing up, I was fascinated by how simple, often overlooked things like an old wall or flaking paint could tell a story. These experiences helped me realize that art was my way of expressing emotion and capturing moments..."
Artist Portraits
Harold Ancart: Architectural Abstraction in Nature
Oct 8, 2024
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5 minutes read
Explore Harold Ancart's unique blend of abstraction, landscapes, vibrant colors, minimalism, and architecture. Discover how he transforms nature into striking contemporary art.
Lifestyle
The Lives of Artists on Screen: Films That Capture Creativity and Struggle
Mar 11, 2025
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6 minutes read
Artists have long fascinated filmmakers, providing rich material for stories about passion, genius, and turmoil. These films depict their artistic journeys while offering insight into their struggles and triumphs, bringing the world of art to life through figures like Van Gogh and Pollock.
Lifestyle
Pharrell Williams: Music, art, and Murakami!
Oct 18, 2023
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12 minutes read
Pharrell Williams is passionate about artists like Takashi Murakami and KAWS and boasts an extensive art collection housed in his Miami penthouse...
Artist Portraits
Jean Luc Michon, each artist has his own story
Mar 18, 2023
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6 minutes read
"My artistic journey began with studies in applied arts and fine arts, which gave me the technical bases necessary to explore different forms of visual expression. I then worked as an artistic director in an agency advertising, where I developed my skills in visual creation for advertising campaigns".
Artist Portraits
Olga Selezneva, art that celebrates the love for life
Feb 4, 2022
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6 minutes read
Inspired by the artist's love for music, life and our planet, Olga Selezneva's art manages to capture the most concrete and fascinating associations of the reality around us...
Artist Portraits
Man Ray: The Fusion of Abstraction, Eroticism, and Innovation
Aug 2, 2024
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6 minutes read
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia on August 27, 1890, was a pioneering artist who profoundly impacted modern art through his contributions to the Dada and Surrealist movements, innovative photographic techniques like "rayographs," and groundbreaking experimental films and light paintings, with his legacy further solidified by record-breaking sales and enduring influence in the art world.
Artist Portraits
Tim Burton: A Master of Dark Fantasy in Film and Visual Art
Aug 26, 2024
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6 minutes read
Tim Burton is an American filmmaker and visual artist known for his distinctive gothic style, blending dark fantasy with quirky humor in films like “Edward Scissorhands” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. His artistic work, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures, reflects the same whimsical yet eerie aesthetic that defines his cinematic creations.
Artist Portraits
Kiki Smith: Sculpting the Human Experience through Art
Sep 4, 2024
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6 minutes read
Kiki Smith, a German-born American artist born on January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, is renowned for her exploration of profound themes such as sex, birth, regeneration, and the human condition, with her work deeply influenced by feminism, AIDS, and gender issues, while also delving into the intricate relationship between humanity and nature.
Artist Portraits
Joe Bradley: A Brief Introduction
Sep 10, 2024
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6 minutes read
Joe Bradley is an American contemporary artist recognized for his abstract and minimalist approach. His work often features bold, gestural marks and a restrained color palette, creating a visually impactful and distinct aesthetic...
Lifestyle
Eli and Edythe Broad: postwar and contemporary art collection
Oct 26, 2023
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13 minutes read
The Broad, situated on Grand Avenue in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, stands as a modern art museum...
Art History
Artists who marked 2024: 10 must-sees
Dec 24, 2024
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13 minutes read
With the end of 2024 just around the corner, it is time to reflect on the artists who made their mark on the year. ArtMajeur, a reference platform for online art, has highlighted the emerging trends and the names most popular with the public in terms of sales and consensus...
Artist Portraits
Jenny Saville: Redefining the Female Form in Contemporary Art
Sep 12, 2024
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7 minutes read
Jenny Saville is a British contemporary artist known for her large-scale, visceral paintings of the human body, particularly focusing on female forms and themes of imperfection, gender, and beauty. Her work challenges traditional representations of the nude, blending realism with abstraction to explore the complexities of identity and physicality.
Artist Portraits
Miquel Barceló: A Visionary of Contemporary Art
Sep 12, 2024
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6 minutes read
Miquel Barceló is a leading figure in contemporary Spanish art, known for his innovative use of diverse materials and his distinct ability to capture the primal forces of nature and human emotion. His work spans a variety of mediums, including painting, ceramics, and sculpture, often blending the abstract and the figurative in ways that challenge traditional boundaries...
Artist Portraits
Wade Guyton: Technology Meets Abstract Art
Oct 11, 2024
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7 minutes read
Wade Guyton is an American post-conceptual artist known for his innovative use of digital printing techniques to create abstract, minimalist works. He is recognized for blending technology with traditional art forms, particularly through his use of inkjet printers to produce striking pieces on canvas.
Artist Portraits
Maria Esmar: I believe that every artist has a unique touch
Dec 17, 2024
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7 minutes read
"I believe that every artist has a unique touch as we all have different personalities and the way we all express ourselves is unique in every way imaginable, as each painting is driven more by our feelings and all the visual information we soak from the outside world, the paintings I create can differ in style and I even though I start a painting based on an idea the painting always takes a twist and surprises me in the becoming..."
Artist Portraits
Discover Adam McEwen's Thought-Provoking Conceptual Artworks
Jan 21, 2025
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7 minutes read
Adam McEwen is a British contemporary artist known for transforming everyday objects and cultural artifacts into thought-provoking artworks that blend humor, melancholy, and critique. His practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, often exploring themes of history, mortality, and consumer culture.
Artist Portraits
Rinetta Feliz: I do what was inside me
Dec 2, 2024
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15 minutes read
"I think calling my creative path "artistic past" is too "loud", rather it is some life experience, observations of life events, relationships between people, interactions of physical and chemical ordinary objects..."
Art History
The Dance Class by Edgar Degas
May 23, 2023
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7 minutes read
"The Dance Class" (1874) by Edgar Degas is a renowned painting that captures the elegance and motion of ballet dancers in a dance studio, showcasing Degas' meticulous attention to detail and innovative approach to composition. Through fluid brushstrokes and a unique perspective, Degas invites viewers to glimpse into the world of ballet training, portraying a captivating scene of dedication and grace.
Lifestyle
Charles Saatchi's Impact on Contemporary Art
Oct 25, 2023
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7 minutes read
Charles Saatchi is a British art collector and former advertising executive known for his extensive contemporary art collection and patronage of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He co-founded the prominent advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi and established the influential Saatchi Gallery in London.
Artist Portraits
Tauba Auerbach: Math-Inspired Visual Language
Oct 25, 2024
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7 minutes read
Tauba Auerbach is a contemporary American artist known for her interdisciplinary approach that merges art, mathematics, and science to explore themes of dimensionality and perception. Her work, spanning painting, sculpture, and bookmaking, often challenges traditional understandings of space and visual language through innovative use of geometry and optical illusion.
Artist Portraits
Oscar Murillo: Exploring Cultural Identity Through Art
Dec 19, 2024
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7 minutes read
Oscar Murillo is a contemporary Colombian artist known for his exploration of migration, globalization, and cultural identity through diverse mediums like painting, installation, and performance. His work has been exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate in London, and in 2019, he co-won the Turner Prize, cementing his place among leading international artists.
Artist Portraits
Reza Derakshani: Innovative Iranian Artist Shaping the Global Art Scene
Feb 10, 2025
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7 minutes read
Painter, musician, and performance artist Reza Derakshani was born in Sangsar, northeastern Iran. His early years were spent in a vast black tent atop a mountain, surrounded by horses and fields filled with vibrant blue and yellow wildflowers...
Artist Portraits
Chris Ofili: A Journey of Art, Controversy, and Global Recognition
Feb 17, 2025
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7 minutes read
Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968), is a British painter renowned for incorporating elephant dung into his artworks. A prominent figure in the Young British Artists group, he won the Turner Prize in 1998...
Lifestyle
Tobey Maguire: Spider-Man is a collector!
Oct 10, 2023
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16 minutes read
Tobey, a close companion of Leo, is well-acquainted with the art scene as well. He has been spotted attending the New York Armory Show and Art Basel Miami...
Art News
Minimalist Art Innovator Carl Andre Passes Away at 88
Jan 25, 2024
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2 minutes read
Carl Andre, a key figure in Minimalist sculpture, passed away at 88, leaving a legacy of innovative, industrial material-based art. His career, spanning nearly seven decades, was marked by both acclaim for his minimalist works and controversy surrounding the death of his partner, Ana Mendieta.
Art History
When Street art meets Abstraction
May 7, 2023
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8 minutes read
As partly anticipated above, we are accustomed to seeing the graffities and tags on the walls, mostly monochrome, of streets, abandoned buildings, factories and much more, or, in the case where we talk about Street art...
Art History
Music and art: a combination that has lasted for centuries
Jun 21, 2022
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7 minutes read
Music and art represent two related disciplines that are able to reveal human feelings and experience, both in its positive and joyful sides and in its more introspective and serious ones. Precisely because of these peculiarities, the said arts have played a prominent role since ancient times, when, from their union, two distinct combinations were generated: art that tells music and art that supports music...
Art History
Munch's Scream: yesterday and today
Jun 14, 2023
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8 minutes read
Let's face it, art history books in which, in order to talk about the figurative evolution of a particular country, a tedious succession of names, definitions and dates are listed, turn out to be rather sterile in terms of learning...
Artist Portraits
Sandro, my mind is hungry for exploration
Jun 14, 2023
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8 minutes read
It was last summer, I went to the exhibition "Roses from my Garden" by Nick Knight at the Museum of Photography in Nice...
Artist Portraits
Roberto Matta: Bridging Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Jul 17, 2024
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8 minutes read
Roberto Matta, born in 1911 in Santiago, Chile, became a pivotal figure in 20th-century art through his mastery of abstract expressionism and surrealism, transitioning from architecture to painting and earning international acclaim for his innovative techniques and profound exploration of cosmic themes, influencing artists globally until his death in 2002.
Artist Portraits
David Hockney: A Pioneer of Contemporary Art
Aug 28, 2024
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7 minutes read
David Hockney is a leading British artist celebrated for his innovative and colorful works in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Known for his vivid depictions of landscapes, portraits, and experimental photo collages, Hockney has been a major influence in contemporary art for over six decades.
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.”