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Art History

The Revenge of Women in Abstract Art: 10 Artists to Discover

Oct 8, 2024

13 minutes read

Abstract art is often associated with great male masters like Pollock, Kandinsky, and Mondrian, but women artists have also made revolutionary contributions, despite being less well-known. This exploration finally brings to light some of the most important female figures in the movement...

The timeless popularity of geometric abstraction

Art History

Mar 27, 2022

6 minutes read

Geometric Abstraction is still very popular today, both in terms of the art scene and the market, as evidenced by the numerous exhibitions dedicated to this movement, organized by the world's most important institutions, museums and galleries...

Artist Portraits

Emmanuel Passeleu, photography at the service of architecture

May 28, 2022

6 minutes read

Emmanuel Passeleu's preferred medium is photography, oriented, to varying degrees, towards architecture. The purpose of this creation is to see the spectators project themselves into the photos, into a parallel world, created by the artist...

Lifestyle

Top 10 Artists to Follow on TikTok

Jan 29, 2021

6 minutes read

With more than 800 Million active users worldwide, TikTok has become in just few years one of the most popular social networks of the new generation.

Art History

5 Most Emblematic Artworks of Pop Art

Mar 12, 2021

6 minutes read

Come on board with us to discover 5 artworks that laid the foundations of an innovative and still profoundly current artistic movement: today, it's Pop!

Artist Portraits

César: The Mastermind Behind Compressed Automobiles and Foam Sculptures

Aug 13, 2024

7 minutes read

César Baldaccini, a pioneering French sculptor and key figure in Nouveau Réalisme, revolutionized contemporary art with his innovative sculptures and compressions of industrial materials, leaving a lasting legacy after his death in 1998.

Artist Portraits

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...

Artist Portraits

Andreas Gursky: Virtuoso of Large-Scale Photography and Digital Manipulation

Sep 26, 2024

6 minutes read

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.

Artist Portraits

Eberhard Havekost: Redefining Perception in Contemporary Painting

Oct 29, 2024

6 minutes read

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.

Artist Portraits

Discover Adam McEwen's Thought-Provoking Conceptual Artworks

Jan 21, 2025

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.

Art History

The peculiarities of abstract drawing

May 18, 2022

7 minutes read

Abstract art is not appreciated by all viewers, as for many of them the initial inability to understand or grasp its meaning is a major obstacle. In this sense, the simplicity and accessibility of drawing can help even the most skeptical viewer approach the mystery of such movement...

Art History

Pop art and brands - brands and Pop art

Apr 30, 2023

7 minutes read

"Pop art is industrial painting. I think the significance of my work is that it is industrial, that's what the whole world will become soon. Europe will be the same way, soon, it will no longer be American, it will be universal."

Art History

The human body in Italian art after Michelangelo

Apr 8, 2025

7 minutes read

Looking at the works of Michelangelo, whether carved in marble or frescoed on ceilings and walls, what immediately strikes one is the extraordinary depiction of the human body: taut muscles, natural poses, veins, tendons, joints that seem to pulse under the marble skin...

Artist Portraits

Christopher Wool: Language, Abstraction, and the Raw Edge of Contemporary Art

Apr 15, 2025

7 minutes read

Christopher Wool (born in 1955) is an American artist whose work, since the 1980s, has explored themes related to post-conceptualism...

Artist Portraits

Rinetta Feliz: I do what was inside me

Dec 2, 2024

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 desert between land art, painting and sculpture

Nov 6, 2022

7 minutes read

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...

Art History

The color silver in art: from Verrocchio to Jeff Koons

Nov 9, 2022

8 minutes read

Taking a purely chromatic point of view, silver represents a shiny gray-metallic color, found in nature through the observation of silver fish, silver birch trees, and the metal from which it inherited its very name...

Pop Culture

Surrealist Art References in Squid Game

Oct 8, 2021

7 minutes read

The new South Korean series that beats all the audience records on Netflix is full of details of all kinds and is skilfully inspired by surrealist artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali or MC Escher: short overview of the artistic references hidden in the series. Spoilers Warning!

Lifestyle

Professionals: how to choose the right work of art?

Apr 30, 2024

7 minutes read

On the occasion of May Day, which is dedicated to honoring the contributions of workers around the world, it is possible to open a thematic food for thought aimed at bringing out how the aesthetics of an office can influence productivity, mood and professional identity...

Artist Portraits

Pierre Ittner: Art for processing emotions

Oct 29, 2024

8 minutes read

“Art offers me the opportunity to process emotions, question things and see the world from a new perspective.”

Artist Portraits

Roni Horn: Perception, Identity, and the Fluidity of Art

Apr 1, 2025

8 minutes read

Roni Horn is an American contemporary artist known for her work in sculpture, photography, drawing, and installation art, often exploring themes of identity, perception, and environmental influence. Her art challenges traditional classifications, blending Minimalism with personal and environmental connections, particularly influenced by Iceland.

Art History

The color grey in art history

Sep 11, 2022

8 minutes read

Grey, the typical color of cloudy winter days, of stones unknowingly piled up on beaches, of ancient monuments, of cold clothes worn by workers, of the most varied technological tools, of the iconic Apple apple, and of hair that comes with age, is the result of a particular shade achieved by mixing black and white...

Art History

Egon Schiele's self-portraits: a figurative biography

Oct 19, 2022

8 minutes read

Schiele's work fine-tuned an expressive approach marked by contorted figures and "sharp" brushstrokes that, extremely charged with emotional energy, still represent a powerful symbol of psychological, emotional and sexual expression...

Sell Art

Classify your works in the right style!

Oct 17, 2022

8 minutes read

Why is it important to categorize your paintings stylistically on Artmajeur? This is essential in order to make your work more visible for those who want to buy a specific point of view while facilitating the work of journalists and curators, interested in talking about works presenting specific stylistic characteristics.

Artist Portraits

Aurélia Cheret, inspiration comes from everywhere

May 31, 2023

8 minutes read

"I think it's always been part of my daily life. As a child, I saw my mother draw, paint. My sister was part of a photo club. My father-in-law is a drummer, my uncle a guitarist. For my part, I did dance."

Lifestyle

Eugenio López Alonso: He now owns a 3,000-work collection

Dec 19, 2023

8 minutes read

Eugenio López Alonso, the sole heir to the Jumex fruit-juice empire, is widely recognized as a patron of the arts. His foundation generously sponsors contemporary art exhibitions in Mexico, Latin American art courses at colleges and art schools in the United States...

Art History

The most popular Hungarian artists

Feb 20, 2024

8 minutes read

Most historians believe that the Hungarian people emerged around 895 AD under the leadership of Prince Árpád, a time when their earliest forms of artistic expression also developed...

Artist Portraits

Perception and Reality in the Art of René Magritte

Jun 19, 2024

8 minutes read

René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his thought-provoking paintings that challenge the viewer's perception of reality. His work often explored themes of perception, identity, the nature of objects, and the relationship between words and images, all presented in a surreal and enigmatic style.

Artist Portraits

Antony Gormley: Sculpting the Human Experience

Mar 17, 2025

8 minutes read

Antony Gormley is a British sculptor known for his explorations of the human form, space, and materiality, often using cast iron and steel to create life-sized body sculptures. His work challenges the boundaries between art, architecture, and nature, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own physical presence in the world.

Art History

The technique of watercolor: from William Turner to contemporary times

Nov 16, 2022

8 minutes read

Referring to the most accessible of definitions, Wikipedia describes watercolor as a painting technique marked by the use of finely ground pigments mixed with binders, which, at a later stage are diluted in water, in order to be spread on the pictorial support, in order to create compositions from characterizing soft and delicate colors...

Art History

Cleopatra narrates the history of art

Dec 7, 2022

9 minutes read

Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.E.), Egyptian queen and the last monarch of the Ptolemaic kingdom, is better known for her charms than for her governmental talents, so much so that it was because of her charm, bestowed by her intelligence, personality, and culture, rather than her beauty, that she ascended the throne for the second time...

Art History

Naïve art explained by the "beasts" of Henri Rousseau and Antonio Ligabue

Dec 14, 2022

9 minutes read

Naïf art, an artistic production, which, precisely because it is created by people without academic training, is often underestimated in its peculiar crude and instinctive approach to materials, composition and ideas, characteristics that have given this type of artists the appellation of primitivists, ingenuous or faux ingenuous...

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?...

Invest in Art

Top Artist to Invest in Right Now: Victor Vasarely

Jun 7, 2023

9 minutes read

Victor Vasarely, originally named Győző Vásárhelyi, was a Hungarian visual artist born on April 9, 1906, in Pécs, Austria-Hungary. He later became a French citizen in 1961. Regarded as the father of optical art, he passed away on March 15, 1997, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France...

Art History

The line: basis of figurativism, meaning of abstractionism

Jun 11, 2023

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...

Lifestyle

Jack Nicholson: a $150 Million Art Collection

Sep 1, 2023

8 minutes read

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...

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