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MIFAC 2025: An eleventh edition full of promise
Mar 12, 2025
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MIFAC 2025 , which will be held from March 27 to 30 in Angoulême , will showcase around thirty new films on contemporary artists, with screenings, an Art Book Fair and meetings between artists, directors and enthusiasts. Three thematic evenings will be dedicated to Chu Teh-Chun, Francis Bacon & Lucian Freud, as well as Fred Deux & Cécile Reims , making this 11th edition an unmissable event for art lovers.
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..."
Art History
Cars & art
Apr 24, 2022
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7 minutes read
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...
Art History
Iconic beauty: the depiction of Venus in the history of art
Nov 30, 2021
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7 minutes read
Beauty is an abstract concept, which has often come to life in the works of the greatest artists of all time, but without finding a single form of representation. In fact, the idea of beauty is changeable, since it is subject to the changes of the historical, cultural, economic and social context in which artists found themselves operating. This can be exemplified by the evolution that, over the centuries, has undergone the representation of the goddess of love, Venus...
Art History
Artists' love of brown
Oct 9, 2022
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7 minutes read
The presence of brown within the history of art boasts a very ancient tradition; in fact, umber, a natural clay pigment composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide, with which the aforementioned color was obtained, was used, both in prehistoric times, that is, in paintings dated 40,000 B.C., and in Upper Paleolithic art, well exemplified by the walls of the Lascaux cave, dating back some 17,300 years...

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