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Interview | Larisa Ruy: I came to art not through classical academic education
May 24, 2025
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8 minutes read
"I was inspired by an inner search for a true language to express the experiences and emotions that words could not contain. Since childhood, I have perceived art as a living space for deep emotional and psychological exploration. This led me to create my own technique, combining oil painting, gilding, and bas-relief. "...
Art History
Graffiti: history, vocabulary, and pioneers
Oct 21, 2023
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8 minutes read
Before we begin with the presentation of some pioneers of graffiti, I would like to take you back to the "school desks" again...
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Wim Delvoye: Redefining Art Through Provocation and Innovation
Aug 8, 2024
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8 minutes read
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.
Art History
Bitcoin and Crypto art explained by the artists of Artmajeur
Jun 18, 2023
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8 minutes read
Collecting is a very ancient phenomenon, so much so that already in the Mesopotamian civilizations, among the royalty and elite classes of the 3rd century B.C...
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Ji Dachun: The Acid Humor of a Chinese Conceptual Minimalist
Apr 29, 2025
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9 minutes read
Ji Dachun , a contemporary Chinese artist, is distinguished by his minimalist and ironic work that critiques consumer society and questions Chinese cultural identity. His growing influence is reflected in his unique style, his rejection of dominant codes, and his impact on the younger generation of Chinese artists.
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Interview | Maria Lapteva: I have experimented a lot with techniques and subjects
May 13, 2025
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12 minutes read
"My first major encounter with art happened in early childhood, in kindergarten. During a drawing lesson, I depicted an erupting volcano. It was an abstract drawing filled with bright colors — yellows, oranges, and reds. That was the first time I felt how strongly colors affect me and the joy I experience simply by moving the brush and creating lines with them."...
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Speedy Graphito: The Pioneer of French Street Art
Jul 17, 2024
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13 minutes read
Speedy Graphito, the pseudonym of Olivier Rizzo, is a renowned French artist celebrated for his vibrant, colorful style that blends elements of pop culture, street art, and surrealism...
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Gardani: Between Magical Realism and Pop Culture, an Essential Artistic Signature
Feb 12, 2025
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4 minutes read
Gardani is a self-taught contemporary artist whose unique style blends classical realism and pop culture with striking visual boldness. Through his colorful and symbolic works, he tells a universal story of love, peace, and modern identity.
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...
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Andrii Kyrychenko: I am passionate about art and ceramics
Oct 15, 2024
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9 minutes read
"Since childhood, I have been passionate about art and ceramics, but fate has made me end up studying engineering. I think that, in a way, it is this technical approach to life that made me want to return to art."...
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Gabriel Orozco: Redefining Contemporary Art Through Everyday Encounters
Feb 11, 2025
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9 minutes read
Gabriel Orozco is a prominent Mexican contemporary artist known for his innovative use of sculpture, photography, and painting, often exploring themes of space, perception, and transformation. His work combines everyday objects and geometric forms, challenging conventional boundaries between art, nature, and the human experience.
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Brother X, constantly innovating
May 10, 2023
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4 minutes read
"I have been involved in art for over 30 years. At age 24, I had my first exhibition at a time when I was still working on painting, pencil drawings and abstract art..."
Art News
The Joan Mitchell Foundation tells Louis Vuitton to stop using paintings in ads for handbags
Feb 22, 2023
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4 minutes read
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has accused the high-end fashion company Louis Vuitton of using at least three of the artist's works without permission in an ad campaign for handbags that sell for up to $10,500 and feature actress Léa Seydoux.
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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".
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Marianna De Marzi: Being a curator allows me to feed my many curiosities
Mar 28, 2025
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9 minutes read
"Being a curator allows me to feed my many curiosities by exploring diverse fields—from science to anthropology, including literature, philosophy, and politics. We find ourselves at the heart of contemporary questions, revealed by the sensitivity of artists and their works."
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From Paris Streets to Global Art Scenes: The Story of Onemizer’s Art
Jul 5, 2024
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4 minutes read
Onemizer is a contemporary French artist who brings the energy of street art into the gallery space, combining vibrant graffiti techniques with pop culture influences. His work explores themes of expression and social commentary through dynamic, colorful creations.
Art History
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
May 30, 2023
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21 minutes read
The Mona Lisa strikingly resembles Renaissance representations of the Virgin Mary, which was considered an ideal of femininity at the time. The woman in the painting is seated upright in a "pozzetto" armchair with her arms folded, indicating a reserved posture.
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The Conceptual Art of Rosemarie Trockel – From Schwerte to Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
May 5, 2025
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5 minutes read
Rosemarie Trockel, born on November 13, 1952, is a renowned German conceptual artist. Her diverse body of work spans drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and installation, often blending various media. Beginning in 1985, she became particularly known for her innovative use of knitting machines to create textile-based artworks.
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Gwyneth Paltrow, from art history to collecting
Aug 11, 2023
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10 minutes read
Renowned actress and lifestyle influencer Gwyneth Paltrow boasts a home that reflects her signature refined and sophisticated taste. Bathed in natural light, her dwelling showcases Minimalist artworks by prominent figures like Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari...
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Isa Genzken's Take on Modern Consumer Culture Through Art
Nov 18, 2024
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10 minutes read
Isa Genzken is a groundbreaking German contemporary artist known for her innovative sculptures, installations, and multimedia works that explore themes of modernity, urban life, and consumer culture. Her art is characterized by the use of diverse materials and found objects, often blending high and low culture to create thought-provoking, avant-garde pieces.
Art History
Love in Art History: From the Renaissance to Pop Art
Feb 5, 2025
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11 minutes read
From the ethereal sculptures of ancient Greece to the passionate expressions of the Baroque, and on to the bold transformations of Cubism and Pop Art, love is analyzed and dissected through various artistic movements that have captured and reinterpreted its changing essence...
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Yannick Aaron: everyone is born as an Artist
Jan 6, 2024
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15 minutes read
"I think that everyone comes into the world as an Artist, as soon as we have it, the opportunity, we start to construct, and to deconstruct, it's the same process."...
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M. Chat: The Grinning Cat That Took the World by Storm
Aug 9, 2024
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5 minutes read
M. Chat is a French street artist known for his signature cartoonish cat characters, which he began creating in the early 2000s. His vibrant and playful artworks appear on urban surfaces around the world, making a distinctive mark on the street art scene.
Art History
Tuscan artists: from Andrea del Sarto to the contemporary.
Nov 30, 2022
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10 minutes read
Imagine that you are walking in the Florence (Tuscany) of the 1500s, having the opportunity to look closely at the recent and laborious building of the Duomo, the adjacent and older baptistery, as well as the other iconic buildings, also located in the present historic center. Now that you are in the cradle of the Renaissance you can think, that, in the aforementioned places, almost unchanged in the modern age, the greatest artists in the history of art lived and worked...
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Start an Art Collection: Tips and Must-Have Pieces for a New Collector
Mar 11, 2025
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11 minutes read
Are you new to the art world and eager to start your collection but don't know where to begin? Don't worry! We've created a few profiles of novice collectors so you can identify yourself in one of them and discover your unique style...
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Jamie Lee, people and emotions as subjects
Jan 7, 2023
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6 minutes read
Lee wants the viewer to be uplifted. This can be through a scene or a memory of something or someone from the past, or a scenario to project oneself into. Sometimes he explores the darker side of emotions, because it is a reality that none of us can escape in our lives....
Art History
In which ways does African art influence contemporary artists?
Mar 23, 2022
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5 minutes read
The fact that the most ancient origins of humankind are to be found in Africa is now irrefutable. However, this continent has also been decisive in the development of figurative arts, since African art has succeeded in shaping the culture of the world with its particular styles. But how have these influences been expressed in contemporary art?
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Shopping depicted in art
Nov 23, 2021
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6 minutes read
Christmas is just around the corner, and with it, the shopping spree! But what relationship does art have with commerce? Some works of art have certainly represented a precious testimony of the evolution, occurred during the centuries, of the modalities of sale and of advertisement of consumer goods...
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Advertising in Art
Nov 25, 2021
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5 minutes read
Art and advertising have combined since the second industrial revolution, generating works and artistic currents that have revolutionized both the world of art and that of marketing. But when was this fruitful association born and how has it evolved over the centuries?
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Peter Klasen: The Art of Industrial Contrasts and Urban Narratives
Jul 11, 2024
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6 minutes read
Peter Klasen is a German artist known for his collage-like Pop Art paintings and prints. His work is featured in major museums worldwide, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Art History
How was Impressionism born?
Jul 22, 2021
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12 minutes read
Second episode of our series dedicated to the Impressionist saga: Today, we take a look at the birth of a movement in brutal opposition with its time. 1860: between conservative academicism and disruptive impressionism: nothing goes right in the Art World.
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4 Extraordinarily Badass Women Who Changed the (Very Patriarchal) History of Art
Mar 5, 2021
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13 minutes read
Let's look back at four particularly inspiring artists' trajectories through different eras, and different conceptions of female emancipation.
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Marc Chagall: A Journey Through Art and Imagination
Jun 19, 2024
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13 minutes read
Marc Chagall's artistic journey is marked by an exceptional blend of surrealism, imagination, and vibrant color, transcending the conventional boundaries of artistic expression...
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Vanity: a pictorial genre
Jul 24, 2022
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6 minutes read
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...
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Food in art
Dec 2, 2021
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6 minutes read
Christmas is getting closer and closer, and with it, also the big binges! In the figurative arts, the association between food and art has lasted for centuries, so much so that the most famous artists of all time, including Raphael, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Giorgio Morandi and Renato Guttuso, have not spared themselves from facing this topical...
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Sophie Mathieu: it’s the moment of creating the painting that I like
Nov 6, 2023
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6 minutes read
“I like the grazing lights, the improbable colors of nature sometimes, I would like people who see one of my paintings to feel the powerful and comforting nature, the calming”...