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In 2022, Christie's auctioned a large Gerhard Richter painting titled "Abstraktes Bild" for a minimum of $35 million...

Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter who lived from 1599 to 1660. He is considered one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art and is best known for his portraits of the Spanish royal family...

Mark Flood: The Punk Rebel of Contemporary Art

Sep 13, 2024

Angelina Jolie Transforms the Iconic Warhol-Basquiat Studio into a New Creative Haven

Mark Flood is an American interdisciplinary artist from Houston, known for his irreverent, punk-inspired critiques of the art world, mass media, and consumer culture. His work spans painting, sculpture, and digital art, with notable series like his Lace Paintings and text-based slogans that challenge the superficiality and commercialization of contemporary art.

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Apr 10, 2025

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Angelina Jolie is transforming a famous New York studio with deep ties to art history into Atelier Jolie, a creative space that honors legacy while fostering collaboration and inclusion. With this bold move, she’s not only preserving a cultural landmark but redefining what an art studio can mean today.

Dan Colen: Exploring Materiality, Pop Culture, and the Boundaries of Contemporary Art

Sep 5, 2024

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2025: A Fusion of Music, Dance, and Artistic Expression

Dan Colen is an American contemporary artist known for his experimental use of unconventional materials like chewing gum, flowers, and trash, blending pop culture references with fine art. His work explores themes of materiality, chance, and the boundaries between high and low culture.

Art News

Mar 27, 2025

Coachella 2025 will take place over two weekends in April, featuring headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone alongside a diverse mix of artists. The festival will blend music, dance, and visual arts, offering immersive experiences through large-scale art installations, interactive performances, and cutting-edge technology.

Donatella Marraoni, The desire to tell her story

Jul 30, 2022

Donatella Marraoni, an artist who mainly uses construction materials, creates with the aim of telling her story, her past, transforming it into a pictorial narrative in constant evolution...

Ali Banisadr: A Journey Through Chaos and Harmony in Art

Sep 10, 2024

Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-American artist known for his dynamic blend of abstraction and figuration, creating paintings that reflect both chaos and order. His work is deeply influenced by his sensory experiences, particularly synesthesia, which allows him to “hear” colors and “see” sounds...

Tim Burton: A Master of Dark Fantasy in Film and Visual Art

Aug 26, 2024

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.

Charles Arnoldi: Innovating Abstract Art Through Material and Form

Sep 4, 2024

Charles Arnoldi is an American contemporary artist known for his abstract paintings, sculptures, and prints, utilizing a diverse range of materials including sticks, wood, and bronze. His innovative approach blends painting and sculpture, often exploring the boundaries between these mediums through dynamic, textured compositions.

Vanity: a pictorial genre

Jul 24, 2022

Vanity refers to a specific type of still life, which, through the inclusion of characteristic symbolic objects, such as, for example, skulls, hourglasses, and luxury goods, aims to remind the viewer, both of the inexorable passing of time, and the future advent of death, and, consequently, also of the futility of ephemeral earthly goods and pleasures...

The Artistic Legacy of Tom Wesselmann: Transforming the Everyday

Aug 22, 2024

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was a pioneering American artist and central figure in the Pop Art movement, celebrated for his bold and provocative works that transformed everyday objects into vibrant, large-scale compositions, challenging traditional notions of beauty and art, and his legacy continues to inspire through numerous significant exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide.

Wade Guyton: Technology Meets Abstract Art

Oct 11, 2024

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.

Discover Adam McEwen's Thought-Provoking Conceptual Artworks

Jan 21, 2025

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.

Philippe Pasqua: Confronting Identity and Mortality with Raw Artistic Expression

Jul 26, 2024

Philippe Pasqua is a contemporary French artist known for his provocative and often unsettling portraits, which explore themes of identity, mortality, and the human condition. His work combines elements of painting and sculpture, frequently featuring raw and intense imagery.

Glenn Brown: Master of Visual Metamorphosis

Sep 20, 2024

Glenn Brown is a highly acclaimed British contemporary artist celebrated for his intricate reimagining of art historical references, pushing the boundaries of painting and sculpture through bold appropriation and transformation. Renowned for his detailed, often surreal works, Brown has exhibited at prestigious institutions worldwide, and his pieces are held in major public collections such as the British Museum, Tate, and MoMA.

Dragon Boat Festival: A Canvas of Tradition and Artistry

May 17, 2024

The Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Jie (端午節), is a traditional holiday observed on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, blending ancient customs and communal festivities. Rooted in the tale of Qu Yuan, a poet and minister from the Chu state during the Warring States Period, it symbolizes resilience and unity.

Exploring KAWS: From Graffiti Roots to Global Influence

Jun 28, 2024

Brian Donnelly, also known as KAWS, is an American artist whose eclectic blend of high art and pop culture has resonated globally since the 1990s. From graffiti roots to monumental sculptures and collaborations with brands like Dior and Supreme, KAWS has redefined contemporary art, provoking both acclaim and controversy while maintaining a significant influence in the art market and beyond.

Serge Chamchinov: Crafting Artistic Narratives Through Books

Aug 28, 2024

Top Artist to Invest in Right Now: Shōichi Hasegawa

Serge Chamchinov, once an analytical chemist, has become a trailblazer in contemporary artist books by blending artistic techniques with deep text and visual exploration, redefining the artist’s book and inspiring future generations.

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May 25, 2023

Moving to Paris and studying at the Hayter studio provided Hasegawa with exposure to European art and the opportunity to fuse his Japanese heritage with Western artistic influences, resulting in a unique fusion of styles and ideas...

6 Things to Know about Berthe Morisot

Sep 24, 2021

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.

Wim Delvoye: Redefining Art Through Provocation and Innovation

Aug 8, 2024

Wim Delvoye is a contemporary Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his provocative and innovative works that blend philosophical concepts with diverse materials, often challenging traditional art boundaries. His notable projects include the "Cloaca" series, which simulates the digestive process, and intricately tattooed pig skins that juxtapose Gothic and modern elements.

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

Apr 1, 2025

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.

Francesco D'Adamo: My inspiration comes from painting itself

Oct 3, 2023

"Art and artist are words that sound very vague and in my language carry a kind of judgement. So I will talk about painting, which is what I do, and painter, because that is consequently what I am. "...

Realism and Surrealism: The Human Being Between Reality and Dream

Apr 22, 2025

Realism, rooted in the 19th century, depicts the human body in real and often harsh contexts, emphasizing social injustices, as seen in Daumier’s Rue Transnonain. In contrast, 20th-century Surrealism, influenced by Freud’s psychoanalysis, uses dreams and the unconscious to transform the human body into a symbol of desires and fears...

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

Apr 15, 2025

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

Salvador Dalí: Provocateur of Surrealism and Cultural Icon

Jun 19, 2024

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his meticulous draftsmanship and eccentric imagery. From his early influences by Impressionism and Renaissance masters to his embrace of Cubism and Surrealism, Dalí's career was marked by iconic works. Despite controversies over his support for Franco and commercial ventures, Dalí's legacy persists.

Surrealism Turns One Hundred Years Old: The Forgotten Works

Oct 14, 2024

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The year 2024 marks the centenary of Surrealism, a revolutionary art movement founded by André Breton that explored the unconscious and irrational through works by artists such as Dalí, Magritte, and Ernst. To mark this anniversary, Artmajeur celebrates with a selection of lesser-known works...

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...

Carlos Blanco Artero: my art and life are absolutely inseparable

Oct 17, 2023

"In the end I have always said that painting is learned by painting. If you're lucky, you find a couple of teachers who mark you and know how to guide you well, respecting your peculiarities, but this is not easy at all..."

Ghada Amer: The Intersection of Feminism and Embroidery in Contemporary Art

Sep 6, 2024

Ghada Amer, born May 22, 1963, in Cairo, is a pioneering Egyptian-American artist renowned for her exploration of gender and sexuality through mediums like her distinctive embroidered paintings. Her innovative work has earned her numerous awards and global recognition, cementing her role as a key figure in contemporary art and feminist discourse.

Erwin Wurm: Austria's Thought-Provoking Artist

Dec 17, 2024

Erwin Wurm, a celebrated Austrian artist born in 1954, is renowned for his innovative and humorous approach to contemporary art. Specializing in sculpture and photography, his work explores the essence of human existence—physical, spiritual, psychological, and political—often critiquing Western society and consumer culture.

How do you tell a story with a happy ending?

Mar 15, 2023

A nineteenth-century cultural, literary and artistic movement, which, revealed only later in its identity, will illustrate to us, through some of its masterpieces, the metaphor of life in which each of us has stumbled, aimed at taking on the guise of a figurative tale, intent on facing the darkness of temptation and the limitations of vanitas...

Engravers and Painters: Conflicts and Collaborations

Mar 12, 2024

Engraving, an artistic technique in intaglio or relief, has among its earliest documented examples those dating back to the 7th century BC, found in Egypt and China, and later also in Greece...

Hurvin Anderson: Exploring Identity and Place Through Art

Sep 20, 2024

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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...

Jacques Monory: A Cinematic Visionary in Modern Art

Jul 26, 2024