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Creating themed galleries is a strategic approach that can turn your portfolio into a true showcase of your work. Here's how this method can help you showcase your work and attract visitors' attention

The history of Polish art: traditions halfway between Europe and Russia

May 8, 2022

8 practical tips to start the year well by selling art

Polish art, while maintaining its own peculiarities of genre and style, has often reflected the figurative trends expressed by the movements of neighboring countries and continents, such as Russia and Europe. This is due to the fact that, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Poland did not yet exist as a state, since it was divided between Austria, Russia and Prussia, countries from which it drew obvious artistic contaminations...

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Jan 12, 2025

To kick off the year and boost your art sales, organize your activities by working on your SEO, carefully describing and photographing your artworks, and highlighting your biography and studio. Actively promote your creations on social media and through events to maximize your visibility and attract new buyers.

Michael Cheung, My View on Beauty

Feb 18, 2023

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"I always liked to fantasize when I was little, I comforted myself with crayons, my grandfather saw in my drawings something different from other children's drawings, he thought I had a talent for drawing, and from that moment on I took private drawing lessons"

Millionaire indicted for burning $10 million Frida Kahlo painting

Sep 28, 2022

Millionaire Martin Mobarak was investigated for setting fire to a $10 million Frida Kahlo painting as an NFT stunt.

A Willem de Kooning's painting, which had been missing for 30 years due to a heist, will be on display this summer at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

Jun 7, 2022

On Thanksgiving Day in 1985, the painting was ripped from its frame and torn from its backing during a daylight robbery at the University of Arizona Museum of Art.

The shadow behind the brush: the most disturbing biographies in art history

Oct 29, 2024

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Discover the darker, more tormented side of the artists who created disturbing masterpieces. We will discuss not their works, but the troubled lives of Caravaggio, Goya, Munch, Dalí and other masters, revealing the stories of violence, anguish and madness that fueled their creative genius...

Masterpieces explained: Caravaggio's Bacchus

Sep 29, 2021

Painted by one of the greatest bad boys in the history of Art, exhibited in the prestigious Medici Collection for several decades, then lost and found in a dilapidated state among the reserves of a Florentine Museum. Today, we focus on the enigmatic painting by Caravaggio: The Bacchus.

Masterpieces Explained: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

Oct 15, 2021

As a symbol of a deep and melancholic America, Nighthawks is an essential monument of modern art. But why is it so famous throughout the world?

Double vision: the dynamics of Expressionism in Germany and Austria

May 28, 2024

A comparison of German and Austrian Expressionism, two movements that, despite having originated in similar contexts, manifest unique and distinctive nuances. Expressionism, known for its deep exploration of the human condition and manifestation of intense emotions, actually found fertile ground in both Germany and Austria...

Art: two points of view on the Vietnam War

Feb 15, 2023

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...

Social media and apps enter art...

Sep 2, 2023

Surely social media was not intended for the circulation of quality information, ready to promote the betterment of consciousness development, but each of us, free to act, could actually make an effort to spread and create something meaningful...

Nicky Chiarello, Motoring art

Jan 29, 2022

Nicky Chiarello's art comes from the possibility of transforming cars into an object of art, through the use of intense colors, which highlight the brightness and reflections of the bodywork...

Sabrina Seck, artworks that have a soul

Sep 3, 2022

The artistic production of Sabrina Seck combines the abstract with the concrete, rendering it through pop colors that, distributed in a unique and unprecedented way on the substrate, give the images a soul...

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...

From the eyes to the hands to the mouth: painting and food!

Jul 26, 2023

In the center of the canvas is arranged a realistic woven wicker cenestra, intent on "caring for," as well as "cradling," the roughly twelve specimens of fruit of various kinds, which it jealously guards inside, depicted with the intention of showing them to the viewer, who, in any case, must limit himself only to looking at...

Anthropomorphism in art

Sep 4, 2022

Anthropomorphism in art, as anticipated, has a rich and ancient tradition, in fact, among the earliest examples of anthropomorphic figures we find the Löwenmensch ivory statuette, which, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, that is, approximately 32,000 years ago, depicts a human sculpture having the head of a lion...

Digital art: history, current affairs and critical viewpoint

Sep 18, 2022

"Art is any form of activity of man as a reproof or exaltation of his inventive talent and expressive capacity." The aforementioned peculiarities also undoubtedly belong to the flair of digital art, despite the fact that, all too often, it has been criticized because, compared to more traditional artistic expressions, it uses technological tools, which, according to the most skeptical, facilitate the realization of artifacts...

The Great Masters of Portraiture: Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and English Traditions

Feb 4, 2025

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Ah, the portrait! An art form that captures beauty, power, and personality, revealing who we were and who we aspired to be. From the elegance of the Italian Renaissance to the meticulous detail of Dutch Flemish painting, from the theatricality of Spain's Siglo de Oro to the social refinement of Neoclassical England, each tradition tells the story of an era and its dreams...

Mariia Kulchytska, the need to leave a mark on history

Oct 26, 2022

Maria Kulchitskaya's acquaintance with art did not occur in childhood, but it was at the age of 18 that she became interested in painting and attended art school, which unexpectedly led her to photography...

Former Art Institute of Chicago Payroll Chief Jailed for Multimillion-Dollar Embezzlement

Nov 23, 2023

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Michael Maurello, the former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling $2.3 million over 13 years. Despite the large sum stolen, the museum confirmed the theft did not significantly impact its operations and plans to recover the funds through insurance.

Two museums buy together a masterpiece that they will exhibit in turn

Apr 4, 2023

"Portrait of Mai (Omai)" by Joshua Reynolds is thought to be one of the most important early portraits of a person of color in Britain. In an innovative arrangement, it will travel between London and Los Angeles.

Picasso: the Blue Period and the Rose Period compared

Sep 20, 2023

It is undisputed, Picasso is one of the best-known artists in the world, so much so that I refuse to even introduce him, in order to avoid obvious repetitions, which would turn the noses of the most knowledgeable art experts...

HORYMA: renewing the LightPainting genre with their own technique

Sep 30, 2019

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In 1937, Man Ray produced the first work of art in light painting. This way of “painting with light” by means of the photo is something common today, but the Moscow duo Irina and Igor, founder of Horyma, renew the genre with their own technique. Meet.

Love: from figurative to abstraction

Feb 12, 2023

10 minutes read

When we come to the month of February, especially in the vicinity of the fourteenth, the many types of people in existence, whom we can imagine meeting at the bar, can be roughly summed up in four different human categories, such as: the perfect sweethearts, the love haters, the lonely hearts, the weeping widowers and those "strange" characters...

Did you know that golf has been immortalized by great masterpieces of art?

May 22, 2022

Lesya Guseva is an artist who imagines the secret lives of great paintings

Many masterpieces that fall outside the main themes of the fine arts, such as, for example, that of landscape, portrait, genre scenes, etc., are often unknown. The above emerges forcefully in regard to works that, although they were created by the greatest masters in history, immortalized the elite world of golf...

Pop Culture

Jun 28, 2022

1 minutes read

Lesya Guseva is an artist who imagines the secret lives of great paintings. She reinterprets well-known works of art in a hilarious manner. Lesya began drawing mini comics at the age of 25 after receiving no official art training.

The 13 Essential Artists of Impressionism

Aug 27, 2021

17 minutes read

Without them, Impressionism would never have existed. With them, classical art took an unexpected turn. Artmajeur looks back at 13 painters who left their mark on art history with the thrilling stroke of their brush.

Vincent Sabatier (VerSus), inspired by pop culture

Mar 1, 2023

"I am directly inspired by pop art and pop culture of the 80s. I work a lot on the characters and personalities that marked my childhood and that of many people. Often the objects and figurines included in the resin are the same than those I played with as a child. I also tackle more recent subjects, even current ones, but always in a pop and retro trend".

Bacchus by Caravaggio

Apr 12, 2023

Caravaggio's Bacchus is a masterpiece of Baroque painting, depicting the Roman god of wine and fertility reclining on a bed of grapes and holding a goblet of wine in his left hand. The painting is notable for its striking use of light and shadow, and its intense emotional impact.

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...

Dance, an intense and passionate art form, has been very probably present in all human cultures, in fact, among the first works of art that portray it we find the paintings of ancient Egypt. The representation of this topic has also characterized the most popular artistic currents between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so that great masters such as, Degas, Renoir, Munch, Toulouse Lautrec, and Matisse have depicted it...

Ya Tsai Chiu: The poetic imprint of a contemporary Taiwanese master

Apr 4, 2025

Ya Tsai Chiu, a Taiwanese artist born in 1949 and who died in 2013, established himself on the international scene with his unique style combining sculpture, drawing and painting, with emblematic works such as The Dance of Flames and Vital Energy . His popularity has continued to grow, and his creations are now highly sought after, testifying to the importance of his legacy in contemporary Asian art.

An ATM showing bank balances to the public sold for $75,000 at Art Basel Miami

Dec 2, 2022

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At Miami Beach's Art Basel, a cash dispenser that showed a public list of the richest people will now remain in the city.

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NEW: THE EXHIBITION RIGHT

Jun 4, 2020

You are a visual / graphic artist, we take care of giving you a quick and precise summary in the right of exhibition. This is normal, because it is very often ignored (voluntarily or not) by French exhibition venues. The scale of the floor (minimum) remuneration for artists in the context of temporary exhibitions is set up by the Ministry of Culture.

Luis Mielle: the elegance of realism in the service of human memory

Jun 16, 2022