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Meeting with Asma Al Sharif, Organizer of World Art Dubai, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Mar 20, 2025
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World Art Dubai 2025 is the largest accessible art fair in the Middle East, bringing together over 400 artists and galleries from 65 countries to showcase a diversity of works ranging from $100 to $20,000. Its goal is to enhance its global visibility while supporting emerging artists through mentorship initiatives, educational programs, and digital tools that facilitate connections between artists, collectors, and businesses.
Art History
The Scream
Mar 17, 2023
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The Scream is a famous painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The painting is universally recognized as an iconic illustration of existential fear and human anxiety. The distressed figure in the artwork has been read as a metaphor for the modern person's sense of loneliness and despair in the face of a heartless and uncaring universe.
Artist Portraits
Bosco Sodi: The Artist of Material and Essence
Sep 4, 2024
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Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist celebrated for his focus on raw materials and their inherent beauty. His works explore texture, form, and the unpredictability of natural processes. By using materials like clay, sawdust, and pure pigments, Sodi creates paintings and sculptures that emphasize the physicality of the medium, embracing imperfection and the uncontrolled forces of nature...
Artist Portraits
Maria Esmar: I believe that every artist has a unique touch
Dec 17, 2024
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"I believe that every artist has a unique touch as we all have different personalities and the way we all express ourselves is unique in every way imaginable, as each painting is driven more by our feelings and all the visual information we soak from the outside world, the paintings I create can differ in style and I even though I start a painting based on an idea the painting always takes a twist and surprises me in the becoming..."
Art History
MOMA Masterpieces: Contemporary Interpretations
Feb 23, 2022
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The iconic institution of New York's MOMA is home to such timeless works of art as Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and Jasper Johns' Flag. Such masterpieces continue to be a source of inspiration for contemporary artists around the world, who have re-interpreted them into original, modern, current and sometimes ironic pieces of art...
Art History
The different histories of Expressionism
Aug 3, 2022
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«Never was there an era more ravaged by despair, horror, death. Never has more sepulchral silence reigned over the world. Never has man been smaller. Never has he been more restless. Never has joy been more absent, and freedom more dead. And here is howling despair: man cries out for his soul, a single cry of anguish rises from our time. Art, too, screams in the darkness, calls for rescue, invokes the spirit: it is Expressionism».
Art History
Different forms of classicism
Jul 13, 2022
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Contemporary classicism is an artistic trend of our times, aimed at reinterpreting, in a novel and original way, the quest for perfection and verisimilitude, as well as the exaltation of the human figure and the investigation of the natural datum, which distinguished ancient art and its "revivals"...
Art History
The Art of Sukkot and its Cultural Evolution
Apr 18, 2024
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Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is a tradition-rich Jewish celebration, where temporary sukkahs and the four species symbolize dependence on and gratitude to God for protection and harvests. Sukkot art, through illustrations, installations and digital works, serves not only to educate but also to strengthen cultural identity by interpreting these ancestral themes in a modern and inclusive way.
Art History
The history of Spanish art
Aug 7, 2022
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Over the centuries Spain has given birth to some of the world's greatest architects, painters, sculptors and photographers. This richness is due, both to the autonomous Spanish creative flair and to the influence exerted on the Iberian Peninsula by the most important European figurative currents...
Art History
Digital art: history, current affairs and critical viewpoint
Sep 18, 2022
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"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...

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