Art History
The Italian landscape in art history
Dec 17, 2021
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7 minutes read
Many famous works of art, executed between the Middle Ages and the 16th century, depicted the Italian landscape, just like the masterpieces of Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Antonello da Messina, Giorgione, Titian, Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci. Despite this, this pictorial genre has been configured independently, within the Western art, only from the seventeenth century...
Art History
So damn rock 'n roll: Andy Warhol and contemporary art!
Nov 13, 2022
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7 minutes read
Through the famous refrain of David Bowie's song entitled Andy Warhol, we present the undisputed master of Pop art in a less popular version, such as that of a music manager and producer, as well as the creator of some of the most iconic album covers of all time...
Art History
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette by Auguste Renoir
Jun 7, 2023
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8 minutes read
"Le Bal du Moulin de la Galette" is a famous painting by Auguste Renoir. Made in 1876, it depicts a lively and joyful scene at an open-air ball at the famous Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, Paris.
Artist Portraits
Judith Riemer: In Search of Space for My Imagination
Jun 11, 2024
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8 minutes read
"My inspiration to create art and become an artist is the result of a variety of events and emotions. I grew up in a rural environment and spent my childhood playing outside in nature, exploring everything there was to discover. However, as an only child, I was often alone, and with my sensitivity and creative imagination, I often felt different from the other children."
Artist Portraits
Paul Laurenzi: Art is an escape
Feb 26, 2025
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8 minutes read
"As a child, I drew a lot. It was a good way for me to escape. I also liked looking at art books. I felt close to these famous artists who had followed their path."
Artist Portraits
Amaya F Fariza, an inner feeling
Apr 26, 2023
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13 minutes read
"It's an inner feeling. Every day I look at the things that surround me, the things that contemporary artists do, the landscape of my city, the people, the light... The grandeur that Nature offers, which the classics admired so much".
Artist Portraits
Althea, the passion for acrylic
Jun 11, 2022
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4 minutes read
Althea is a self-taught painter, who started with the watercolor technique, then painted in oil and finally found her happiness with acrylic...
Art News
The Rijksmuseum opens the largest collection of Vermeer paintings ever on display today
Feb 10, 2023
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3 minutes read
The Rijksmuseum has opened a Vermeer show with 28 paintings, 10 rooms, and hundreds of meters of velvet curtain, the largest collection of Vermeer paintings ever shown.
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Top Artist to Invest in Right Now: SPEEDY GRAPHITO
May 3, 2023
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3 minutes read
As a pioneer of street art in France, Speedy Graphito played a key role in the evolution of this art form by being among the first actors of the movement. His influence and fame have made him a major artist on the contemporary art scene.
Art News
Change of Direction at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: A New Era for the Institution
Mar 4, 2025
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3 minutes read
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open in 2026 in Los Angeles, is announcing a leadership change with the departure of Sandra Jackson-Dumont in 2025 and a strategic restructuring under the interim leadership of Jim Gianopulos and George Lucas. The museum dedicated to narrative art will feature artists such as Robert Colescott, Norman Rockwell and Frida Kahlo, offering a rich collection that explores storytelling across a variety of visual mediums.
Art History
Imogen Cunningham
Jun 27, 2023
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8 minutes read
Imogen Cunningham, born on April 12, 1883, and passed away on June 23, 1976, was an acclaimed American photographer...
Art History
Top 8 of the Most Emblematic Kisses in the Art History
Feb 5, 2021
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8 minutes read
A sweet and romantic subject for some, fiery and passionate for others, embark with us in the delicate universe of love and tenderness.
Art History
Art history: interiors with windows
Oct 3, 2023
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8 minutes read
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...
Artist Portraits
Roger Quesnel: I was always a bit of a daydreamer
Apr 15, 2025
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8 minutes read
"I create all of my paintings purely from my imagination and completely intuitively as I paint. I have a general sense of the image I want to paint beforehand, but my main focus and thoughts as I paint, are more about the mood, atmosphere or the feeling I want to convey."...
Art History
Paul Strand
Jul 4, 2023
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17 minutes read
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an influential American photographer and filmmaker. He played a pivotal role, alongside notable modernist photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, in establishing photography as a recognized art form during the 20th century...
Artist Portraits
Julie Mehretu: Ethiopian American Artist's Modern Landscapes
Dec 3, 2024
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10 minutes read
Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian American contemporary artist, is celebrated for her large-scale, multi-layered abstract paintings that reflect urban and sociopolitical changes. Recognized in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2020, she has secured her place as a groundbreaking Black female painter.
Art History
The Revenge of Women in Abstract Art: 10 Artists to Discover
Oct 8, 2024
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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...
Artist Portraits
Angelika Poels, the eternal feeling of wanting to create
Jan 23, 2022
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4 minutes read
The art of Angelika Poels, which uses different techniques and materials, can arise from the most spontaneous ideas of the artist, but also from the observation of reality and the world of art ...
Lifestyle
Creativity : user manual
Nov 15, 2017
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4 minutes read
In the collective unconscious, creativity appears as the prerogative of some solitary geniuses, often cursed, endowed with innate gifts and disconcerting facilities. In reality, each person has a creative potential often under-exploited or constrained by conformism, pessimism, fear of failure, family or social judgment, education.
Lifestyle
Philip Niarchos and His $2.2 Billion Art Collection
Oct 5, 2023
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4 minutes read
Philip Niarchos is a Greek businessman and art collector, known for his significant wealth and extensive collection of modern and contemporary art. He is the eldest son of the prominent Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos.
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What place should be given to works of art generated by AI?
Apr 12, 2024
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4 minutes read
The legitimacy, copyright and value of AI works spark debate. Artmajeur, as an artistic marketplace, approaches these issues with pragmatism, seeking to balance innovation and creators' rights while promoting artistic diversity.
Artist Portraits
Carlo Maniero and the Art of Marquetry: Tradition and Innovation in Wood
Feb 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
Carlo Maniero, a contemporary sculptor, stands out for his mastery of the art of marquetry, an ancient technique that finds new life through his modern interpretation. His works combine fine materials and complex geometries, blending tradition and innovation into a unique visual language...
Art History
Monet against all!
Feb 1, 2023
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9 minutes read
When people talk to us about Impressionism, generally, we are reminded of the image of the "typical" bearded and somewhat "clochard" French painter, who, intent on painting with his hands smeared with color, sheltering under a parasol or a hat, is ready to capture the changing seasons, lights, shadows and colors, times to manifest themselves on the same subject or multiple...
Art History
Art: two points of view on the Vietnam War
Feb 15, 2023
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9 minutes read
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...
Art History
Hot air balloons: protagonists or details
Aug 15, 2023
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8 minutes read
Within the narrative of the history of art, the subject of the hot air balloon has taken on the most varied meanings, tying itself, for example, to the explication of historical events, or referring, in a more or less direct way...
Art History
Art in stripes: an explanation by Barnett Newman, Sean Scully and Agnes Martin
Nov 20, 2022
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9 minutes read
Referring to the Google dictionary definition provided by Oxford Languages, the term strip stands for "the region of plane between two parallel lines," i.e., that elongated subject, which has often claimed its starring presence predominantly within abstract or minimalist works...
Artist Portraits
Mauricio Jose Miranda, positively transforming reality
Dec 29, 2021
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4 minutes read
Mauricio José Miranda knows and uses the majority of artistic techniques to generate works which, avoiding a particular figurative tendency, aim to positively immortalize reality.
Artist Portraits
Giancarlo Morandi, an artifact that looks like a drawing
May 6, 2023
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4 minutes read
I am Italian, born in 1952 in Cremona, the city of the Torrazzo and the great violin makers. The passion for beauty arose in me as a boy, in the years of attending the Liceo artistico Toschi in Parma and then the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano...
Artist Portraits
Gaetano Ligrani: The artist of introspection and serenity
Dec 27, 2024
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4 minutes read
Gaetano Ligrani, an Italian artist who combines design, architecture, and visual art, creates surreal and meditative works that explore the relationship between space, light, and solitude. His art, marked by a fusion of geometry and nature, offers an aesthetic and introspective depth, making him a must-see artist in the contemporary art world.
Art News
According to Bloomberg, NFTs are nothing more than a Ponzi scheme
Oct 26, 2022
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4 minutes read
Bloomberg's long article about crypto calls NFTs nothing but a Ponzi scheme.
Artist Portraits
Sophie Dumont, I was born into a family of artists
Sep 11, 2023
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4 minutes read
“I started with pastels and quickly moved on to oils, which I never put down. The material became more important over the years, the technique became more refined”
Lifestyle
Exploring the Artistic Legacy of Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei
Nov 6, 2023
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4 minutes read
Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei are a globally recognized power couple when it comes to art collecting in Asia. They are the Chinese billionaire collectors who established the Long Museum in Shanghai, which stands as one of China's foremost private art institutions.
Lifestyle
Isabel and Agustín Coppel: One of Mexico's most significant collections
Dec 11, 2023
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4 minutes read
Agustín Coppel, one of the five billionaire sons of Enrique Coppel Tamayo, the founder of a Mexican retail empire focused on low-income consumers, currently holds the positions of chairman and chief executive at his father's conglomerate, Grupo Coppel...
Art News
Is LVMH going to buy the Gagosian gallery?
Oct 28, 2022
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4 minutes read
Gagosian denies rumors that it is being bought by LVMH, a company that sells high-end goods.
Art News
Freedom of expression put to the test in Hong Kong with a major LGBTQ+ exhibition
Mar 13, 2023
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4 minutes read
Even though censorship is getting worse in the city, only one piece has been taken off the show so far.
Art History
From Da Vinci to Degas, how the vision problems of famous painters may have influenced their work
Oct 3, 2021
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4 minutes read
From 1860 to 1910 Degas' vision deteriorated, and his style gradually became harsh as his eye condition worsened. Likewise, was the genius of Leonardo da Vinci helped by a blurred vision? Recent research makes these assumptions.