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Allen Lin possesses an impressive assortment of Chinese contemporary art, showcasing works from both emerging and established artists...

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.

The Art and Tradition of Tanabata

May 21, 2024

Tanabata, or the Star Festival, celebrates the annual meeting of deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, marked by vibrant traditions and artistic expressions across Japan. Originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival, Tanabata involves writing wishes on colorful tanzaku paper strips and displaying them on bamboo branches. The festival features major celebrations, including the renowned Sendai Tanabata Festival, highlighting its enduring cultural significance.

Inka Essenhigh: Pop Surrealism & Dreamlike Art

Oct 17, 2024

Inka Essenhigh is a contemporary American painter known for her surreal, dreamlike landscapes and fluid, figurative forms. Her work often blends elements of mythology, nature, and fantasy, creating imaginative, otherworldly scenes with a sense of fluid movement.

Tauba Auerbach: Math-Inspired Visual Language

Oct 25, 2024

Tauba Auerbach is a contemporary American artist known for her interdisciplinary approach that merges art, mathematics, and science to explore themes of dimensionality and perception. Her work, spanning painting, sculpture, and bookmaking, often challenges traditional understandings of space and visual language through innovative use of geometry and optical illusion.

Chris Ofili: A Journey of Art, Controversy, and Global Recognition

Feb 17, 2025

Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968), is a British painter renowned for incorporating elephant dung into his artworks. A prominent figure in the Young British Artists group, he won the Turner Prize in 1998...

Taner Ceylan: The Hyperrealist Master Redefining Turkish Contemporary Art

Mar 4, 2025

Taner Ceylan is a contemporary Turkish artist known for his emotionally charged hyperrealistic paintings that explore themes of sexuality, identity, and cultural history. His work blends technical mastery with provocative content, often challenging societal taboos and reinterpreting historical narratives through a modern, queer lens.

Néjib Belkhodja: The Architect of Maghreb Abstraction

Mar 4, 2025

May the Force be with Art: Artistic Celebration of Star Wars Day

Néjib Belkhodja (1933-2007) is a Tunisian painter and architect whose work fuses geometric abstraction and architectural references, illustrating a modernity anchored in Maghreb heritage.

Art News

Apr 28, 2025

ArtMajeur presents a selection of contemporary works inspired by Star Wars, combining digital art, painting, and collage to revisit the saga's icons from new perspectives. Each creation pays homage to George Lucas's universe while exploring current themes such as duality, consumerism, and artistic reinvention.

Skyscrapers seen in art

May 25, 2022

Skyscrapers have totally disrupted, with their height and grandeur, the contours and skies of our cities, offering us, from the heights of their structures, new and peculiar perspectives on the world. It was precisely these peculiarities that inspired and fascinated the artists of the twentieth century...

Frans Lanting, a Dutch photographer, writer, and speaker, was born on July 13, 1951, in Rotterdam, Netherlands...

So damn rock 'n roll: Andy Warhol and contemporary art!

Nov 13, 2022

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...

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.

Graffiti: history, vocabulary, and pioneers

Oct 21, 2023

Before we begin with the presentation of some pioneers of graffiti, I would like to take you back to the "school desks" again...

Unlocking the Secret: How did 5 Artmajeur artists achieve success on Instagram?

Apr 23, 2024

Social media has revolutionized art by providing a global platform for artists, democratizing art consumption and appreciation, while successful Instagram artist profiles showcase high-resolution images, creative storytelling, and thematic coherence, engaging audiences and elevating unknown artists to stardom....

Pierre Ittner: Art for processing emotions

Oct 29, 2024

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

This narrative tells, through the evocative images of some well-known masterpieces of art, a figurative story built on a climax of passion...

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...

The bust: comparing stories

Oct 16, 2022

Although the bust originated in Hellenistic Greece and reached its peak popularity in the ancient Roman world, it has undergone interpretative variations throughout the centuries, re-presenting itself even in contemporary times, a time when, thanks to the latest technology, it has also taken shape in a 3-D version...

The most popular Hungarian artists

Feb 20, 2024

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...

Mr. Brainwash: The Rise of a Street Art Phenomenon

Jul 2, 2024

Mr. Brainwash is a contemporary street artist known for his provocative and often satirical artworks that blend elements of pop culture and street art. He gained widespread recognition through his association with Banksy and the documentary film "Exit Through the Gift Shop."

Michel Moskovtchenko: Master of Form, Color, and Narrative

Jul 18, 2024

Michel Moskovtchenko's seven-decade artistic journey showcases his mastery of form, color, and narrative. Starting in Lyon, he deeply engaged with Vaucluse landscapes, capturing the essence of places like Gordes and the Sahara. His profound explorations of the human form cemented his legacy as a prominent figure in contemporary European 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...

From Bad Painting to Computer Painting: The Evolution of Albert Oehlen

Jan 15, 2025

Chen Yifei: Between Chinese tradition and international modernity

Albert Oehlen is a renowned German artist known for his innovative approach to abstract and figurative painting, blending traditional techniques with digital art. His work, often associated with the "Bad Painting" movement, challenges conventional notions of beauty and artistic expression.

Art News

Apr 15, 2025

Chen Yifei, a major figure in contemporary Chinese art, left his mark on his era with a unique style that blended romantic realism, Western aesthetics, and Chinese traditions. From his official debut under Mao to his international recognition, his career reflects a rich, diverse body of work that remains highly sought after on the art market.

Viva Magenta: the color of 2023

Jan 1, 2023

it is important to refer to the statements made by Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, who justifies the choice of Viva Magenta 18-1750, as the color of 2023, because, this hue, rooted in nature, since it is descended from the red family, turns out to be extremely vigorous, vital, expressive, courageous, exuberant, joyful, optimistic and rebellious, that is, capable of encouraging experimentation, inclusion and unrestrained self-expression...

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...

A mouth for 9 artists

Apr 26, 2023

Throughout the long and controversial narrative of art history there was a time, to be located roughly from the beginning of the events of human existence until the arrival of the Avant-gardes, when lips were mainly immortalized within the faces of the effigies...

Art in stripes: an explanation by Barnett Newman, Sean Scully and Agnes Martin

Nov 20, 2022

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...

Rafferoico, the compositional balance

Nov 23, 2022

In the beginning, creating works was not a deliberate decision for Rafferoico; in fact, he only followed up an involuntary and spontaneous aptitude, which manifested itself in his childhood with drawing, even before it could be conceived of as "art."...

The history of Belgian art: from Flemish painting to the present day

Oct 5, 2022

Top Artist to Invest in Right Now: Victor Vasarely

To tell how the art of Belgium has exerted its influence within the history of Western art, the description of its best-known masterpieces, exemplifying those revolutionary stylistic features, which have indelibly marked the peculiarities of the most popular forms of figurative expression of all times, could suffice...

Invest in Art

Jun 7, 2023

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...

The line: basis of figurativism, meaning of abstractionism

Jun 11, 2023

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...

The Silent Dialogue Between Technique and Instinct: Artists Compared

Sep 24, 2024

Too often, art criticism has paid little attention to meaningful comparisons between academically trained and self-taught artists. This occasion is therefore intended to break with this tradition, offering an innovative and unbiased analysis that does not seek to assert the superiority of one artistic category over the other...

Carroll Dunham: Bridging Abstraction and Figuration Art

Nov 28, 2024

Carroll Dunham is a contemporary American artist known for his dynamic blend of abstraction and figurative imagery, often featuring surreal, cartoonish forms and bold colors. His work explores themes like gender, psychology, and human nature, frequently incorporating nude figures and surreal landscapes.

Pollution in art: Turner, Monet and Boccioni "forerunners" of environmental art

Feb 5, 2023