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The Cone sisters, Claribel and Etta Cone, were prominent American art collectors and patrons who are best known for their extensive collection of modern art, particularly works by European and American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bosco Sodi: The Artist of Material and Essence

Sep 4, 2024

6 minutes read

Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist celebrated for his focus on raw materials and their inherent beauty. His works explore texture, form, and the unpredictability of natural processes. By using materials like clay, sawdust, and pure pigments, Sodi creates paintings and sculptures that emphasize the physicality of the medium, embracing imperfection and the uncontrolled forces of nature...

Martin Zanollo: The creative process is a value for me

Nov 19, 2024

“I started painting and drawing a little before I began my studies in architecture. It has always been for me a way of thinking about reality and expressing my own being in every moment...”....

Carol Bove: A Journey Through Sculpture, Materiality, and Public Spaces

Jan 24, 2025

Carol Bove is an American artist known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore materiality and space. Her work often combines diverse materials, such as steel, concrete, and organic elements, challenging traditional notions of display and reinterpreting historical artistic strategies.

The nude at tea time? What does this wacky title mean? How can the genre of the nude be juxtaposed with the drink of tea, in addition to be consumed exclusively at five o'clock in the afternoon?...

Oleksandr Balbyshev, bright paintings

Aug 31, 2022

Oleksandr Balbyshev makes very bright paintings through the use of fluorescent colors, metallic and interferential paints and gold leaf...

Michael A. Craig: I have had the opportunity to experiment with many different techniques

Dec 22, 2023

"As a child I always enjoyed making things but the real epiphany came on a family trip to Paris at the age of twelve."...

Jim Hodges: Exploring Art, Identity, and Emotion through Mixed Media

Sep 11, 2024

Jim Hodges is a contemporary American artist known for his mixed-media sculptures and installations that explore themes of fragility, temporality, and love. His work often incorporates everyday materials and reflects a deep engagement with personal and collective experiences.

The Typical Subjects of Flemish Art Today: Still Lifes, Interiors, and Genre Scenes

Apr 1, 2025

It is therefore interesting to highlight how the influence of the iconic subjects of Flemish art extends to the present day, inspiring contemporary artists on ArtMajeur who reinterpret these traditional genres with new visual languages.

Avoiding dwelling at length on the ways in which advertisements have come to be part of our lives today, occupying them nefariously for almost every second, taking the most varied forms, it is good to reveal how man was once actually free to choose what he needed, simply by employing his brain...

The desert between land art, painting and sculpture

Nov 6, 2022

The desert topical has been told through the point of view of land art, a contemporary art form that originated in the United States during the 1960s, which abandoned the boundaries of the traditional pictorial and sculptural medium...

Top 5 Mysteriously Missing Masterpieces

Oct 30, 2020

Today, let's look back at the tragic destiny of 5 prestigious and priceless artworks that have disappeared from the radars of the art world.

Dominique Kerkhove (DomKcollage), I am self-taught

Jun 10, 2023

"The real artist is the Anonymous Arracheur (Villeglé)". It was this sentence taken from a book by Villeglé that was the trigger. From that moment on, I no longer wanted to photograph the Ready Made but to become this invisible hand and therefore an artist"...

Top 10 Must-See Artists of the Month!

Jul 30, 2024

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....

Mark Bradford: A Master of Layered Abstraction and Social Commentary

Sep 13, 2024

Mark Bradford is a contemporary American artist renowned for his large-scale abstract paintings that often incorporate everyday materials such as paper, posters, and textiles. His works are known for their complexity, layering, and ability to comment on social, racial, and political issues. Bradford’s pieces resonate with themes of urban life, resilience, and inequality, making him a unique voice in contemporary art...

Jonathan Wateridge: Figuring the Unreal in Contemporary Life

Apr 22, 2025

Jonathan Wateridge, born in 1972, is a British artist known for his work in the Postwar and Contemporary painting scene. His art is currently on view at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, and his work has previously been showcased by leading galleries and institutions, including GRIMM in London...

Three innovations in photographic still life

Mar 26, 2023

A small table illuminated by soft light reminds us of the inexorable precariousness of our lives, harboring on its surface wilting flowers, skulls, and a few possessions of luxuries that will prove quite useless once we cross the threshold of the beyond grave...

Victor Manuel Ojeda Collado, motivation and feelings

Apr 12, 2023

"I entered the "Eduardo Abela" Academy of Plastic Arts in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa province, Cuba, in 2005".

Top 5 most scandalous contemporary artworks

Nov 16, 2020

Discover with us 5 emblematic and scandalous pieces of contemporary art, or the illustrated audacity.

"As every year, for centuries, probably since the dawn of time that no one remembers, autumn is back, once again, a season accompanied by the colors of brown, red and yellow, which stick on the skin of leaves, trees and soil."...

Art history: interiors with windows

Oct 3, 2023

The above is followed by an art-historical study regarding the window, aimed at highlighting how, within some masterpieces of art history, its depiction has not only been linked to figures with an attitude akin to Madame Bovary's...

Taxi: a brake between history and painting

Oct 7, 2023

The subject in question concerns taxis, specifically those in the city of New York. It is possible to approach the subject by revealing the history of these particular automobiles...

Rashid Johnson: Exploring Identity through Art

Oct 10, 2024

Rashid Johnson is a standout artist who mixes personal stories with big ideas. Born in Chicago in 1977, he has become a key voice of his generation. His art tackles tough topics like race, class, and identity, using video, sculpture, painting, and installation...

Color and Beyond: How Modern Art Transformed Reality

Nov 19, 2024

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...

Ji Dachun: The Acid Humor of a Chinese Conceptual Minimalist

Apr 29, 2025

Ji Dachun , a contemporary Chinese artist, is distinguished by his minimalist and ironic work that critiques consumer society and questions Chinese cultural identity. His growing influence is reflected in his unique style, his rejection of dominant codes, and his impact on the younger generation of Chinese artists.

Minimalist photography: the landscape genre

Jan 18, 2023

Before coming to the artistic investigation promoted by the photographic medium, it seems obvious to refer to that pictorial tradition, which, over the centuries, has sponsored the birth, development and affirmation of the best-known artistic genres, including the unfailing landscape theme...

Art: two points of view on the Vietnam War

Feb 15, 2023

Jack Nicholson: a $150 Million Art Collection

Jumping rich centuries of history and tradition, we come at once to externalize the viewpoint of one of the most celebrated artists of the Vietnamese twentieth century, namely Nguyen Phan Chanh, a pioneer of silk painting within his nation's artistic investigation, who, despite his training at the Ecole des Beaux-arts d'Indochine an institution founded at the time in French Indochina...

Lifestyle

Sep 1, 2023

Nicholson has established himself as a prominent art collector, having begun his journey in the 1960s. His collection proudly features works by artistic luminaries such as Picasso...

The painting that the bullfighter cannot tame

Sep 15, 2023

The title of my article takes the side, in the context of the pictorial popularity of bullfighting, certainly on the side of the bulls, which, in the long course of the narrative of art history, have been immortalized by many of the greatest masters of all time...

Dado: An Artist of the Imagination and Violence

Jul 2, 2024

Dado, a Montenegrin artist naturalized French, left his mark on contemporary art with his eclectic style mixing surrealism, art brut and free figuration, exploring themes of violence, monstrosity and imagination. His work, widely exhibited and criticized, continues to influence contemporary artists and fascinate the public with its emotional intensity and originality.

Ellen Gallagher: Afrofuturism and Identity in Art

Oct 10, 2024

Ellen Gallagher is an American contemporary artist known for her multimedia works that explore themes of race, identity, and history, often blending abstraction with cultural narratives. Her art spans painting, works on paper, film, and video, and is featured in major museum collections worldwide.

Do you know which five cities have most captured the hearts of artists?

May 6, 2025

A fascinating journey through five cities that have enchanted generations of artists: Paris, Venice, Florence, London, and New York. Living places, rich in history and culture, that were not mere backdrops, but true protagonists of art...

A Comparative Analysis of British and American Pop Art

Sep 3, 2024

British and American Pop Art, while sharing themes and techniques, differed profoundly in their approach and aesthetics. British artists, such as Hamilton and Blake, were often more critical and detached toward mass culture...

Exploring the Influence of Art Movements on Cinema: From Surrealism to Pre-Raphaelites

Mar 4, 2025

6 minutes read

Art movements such as Surrealism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Cubism, and Futurism have profoundly influenced the aesthetic and narrative styles of modern cinema. Filmmakers incorporate elements from these artistic traditions to create visually captivating and thought-provoking films, blending the worlds of visual art and storytelling.

Robert Doisneau, an emblematic French photographer of the 20th century, captured the scenes of everyday life with tenderness and poetry through his famous black and white photographs, becoming one of the most influential artists in humanist photography.

Art: shock news about dripping!

Mar 1, 2023