Art History
Celebrating Pongal: Art as a Bridge Between Tradition and Modernity
Jun 11, 2024
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16 minutes read
Pongal is a traditional harvest festival celebrated primarily in South India, marking the end of the winter solstice and the beginning of the harvest season. It is celebrated in art through various mediums such as paintings, sculptures, dances, and songs, depicting themes of agricultural abundance, gratitude, and communal celebration.
Art History
Temples, Murals, and the Onam Artistic Renaissance
Jun 7, 2024
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14 minutes read
Onam is a vibrant harvest festival celebrated in Kerala, India, commemorating the return of King Mahabali. It is represented in arts through various forms such as Pookalam (floral rangoli), Kathakali dance-drama, mural paintings, and traditional crafts, showcasing the festival's cultural significance and mythological themes.
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Jason Martin: Contemporary Artist & Monochromatic Painter
Oct 28, 2024
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7 minutes read
Jason Martin, born in Jersey in 1970 and based between London and Portugal, explores minimalist painting through controlled yet expansive use of color, brushwork, and medium. His works range from vibrant, swirling compositions to muted, carefully blended abstractions...
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Hyun Ae Kang: Bridging Cultures Through Abstract Art
Jul 29, 2024
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8 minutes read
Hyun Ae Kang is a South Korean contemporary artist renowned for her vibrant abstract paintings that blend traditional Korean spiritual themes with Western abstract expressionism. Her work is characterized by a bold use of color and texture, setting her apart from the monochromatic style of the Dansaekhwa movement.
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Sarah Morris: Abstract Geometric Art & Cinematic Spaces
Nov 7, 2024
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8 minutes read
Sarah Morris is an American contemporary artist famous for her abstract paintings and films that explore urban environments, architecture, and cultural symbols through bold geometric patterns and vibrant color palettes. Her work examines the psychological and social structures of cities, merging elements of modernism, pop culture, and cinematic aesthetics.
Art History
8 Little-known Masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh
Sep 3, 2021
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8 minutes read
In this top, we will not talk about the Starry Night, the Sunflowers or the Self-portraits of Van Gogh. This legendary artist of post-impressionism and Art History in general produced, in his short career, a mountain of fascinating and symbolic artworks.
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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.
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Sonya Kertész: an artistic immersion between marine depths and human sensitivity
Apr 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
Sonya Kertész transforms her dives into powerful pictorial works, where art becomes a silent witness to the memory of the seabed. Between visual poetry and ecological awareness, her world invites reflection on our relationship with the sea and time.
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Mr. Brainwash and the Art of Collision Between Pop Art and Street Art
Feb 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
Mr. Brainwash, the pseudonym of Thierry Guetta, is a French-American artist who has revolutionized the contemporary art world by merging Pop Art and Street Art into a visual explosion of colors, symbols, and cultural references...
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Andrew “Ana`alu” Hollimon: When art tells, questions and illuminates
Jan 9, 2025
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4 minutes read
Ana`alu is a self-taught Floridian artist who transforms memories, emotions, and reflections into striking works of realism and color. His vibrant, accessible, and highly acclaimed art deserves the attention of both amateurs and investors.
Art History
How art and video games learn from each other
Sep 14, 2022
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7 minutes read
Referring to the simplest and most accessible definition of art, found on Wikipedia, a widely circulated democratic online encyclopedia, the video game could indeed be associated with the more traditional forms of creativity, as a technological medium in which the avant-garde of science dialogues with the more usual forms of artistic expression...
Art History
Traditional Chinese Landscapes
Jan 9, 2022
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6 minutes read
Landscape painting, known as Shan shui (mountain and water), deals with the highest, most widespread and appreciated theme of traditional Chinese art, in order to express the artist's feelings, ideas and spiritual conception, rather than a faithful reproduction of nature...
Art History
Abstract autumn
Sep 20, 2023
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8 minutes read
"As every year, for centuries, probably since the dawn of time that no one remembers, autumn is back, once again, a season accompanied by the colors of brown, red and yellow, which stick on the skin of leaves, trees and soil."...
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Carole Carpier, I grew up surrounded by artists
Sep 30, 2023
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5 minutes read
"Since my youngest age, I have grown up surrounded by amateur artists: photographers, sculptors, painters, musicians, actors."...
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Isabelle Lebret, the monochrome that reveals the geography of bodies
Nov 12, 2022
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5 minutes read
The monochrome: The use of a single color, in gradation from shadow to light, in a way prolongs the experience with Isabelle Lebret's clay, because there is a parallel between her work and sculpture. ..
Art News
"Shine": the Jeff Koons exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (Italy).
Nov 16, 2021
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8 minutes read
Jeff Koons is the protagonist of the exhibition Shine, a "blockbuster" event conceived to bring together the masterpieces of the American artist, which will be open until the end of January 2022, at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (Italy). The exhibition, born from the collaboration of the Florentine institution with the American artist, revolves around the concept of brightness, or "shine", which characterizes most of the works on display...
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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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Timothy Colomer: Creating art is deeply fulfilling for me
Jul 4, 2024
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14 minutes read
"Creating art is deeply fulfilling for me, driven by a blend of personal and spiritual inspirations. The feeling of accomplishment I get from bringing a vision to life on canvas is incredibly rewarding."
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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".
Art History
The timeless popularity of geometric abstraction
Mar 27, 2022
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6 minutes read
Geometric Abstraction is still very popular today, both in terms of the art scene and the market, as evidenced by the numerous exhibitions dedicated to this movement, organized by the world's most important institutions, museums and galleries...
Art History
Paul Gauguin
May 5, 2023
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14 minutes read
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French post-impressionist painter who is well-known for his use of bold colors, simplified forms, and his incorporation of themes from indigenous cultures in his work. He was born in Paris and worked as a stockbroker before devoting himself to painting...
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Susan Rothenberg's Monochromatic Horses: Minimalist Masterpieces
Jan 3, 2025
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8 minutes read
Susan Rothenberg was an influential American painter known for her iconic horse paintings, which blended minimalist abstraction with figuration. Throughout her career, she evolved her style, incorporating bold colors and expressive brushwork, and became recognized for her innovative contributions to contemporary art.
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Ivan Gritsanchuk: The Translucent Gaze of Contemporary Abstraction
Mar 26, 2025
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3 minutes read
Ivan Gritsanchuk is an artist who transforms the visible into pure emotion through intuitive, vibrant, and poetic painting. His work, at the intersection of abstraction and sensitivity, represents a wonderful opportunity for collectors seeking authenticity.
Art History
The line: basis of figurativism, meaning of abstractionism
Jun 11, 2023
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8 minutes read
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...
Art History
Pointillism in contemporary artistic language
Sep 28, 2022
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8 minutes read
The peculiarities of pointillism are the fruit of the positivist climate of the late 19th century, which, indelibly marked by the prevailing idea of the triumph of progress, as well as the extreme faith in technique and science, came to charge with rationality even the art world, previously dominated by the "romanticism" of the Impressionists...
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Christine Ay Tjoe: A Visionary of Indonesian Contemporary Art
Feb 5, 2025
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5 minutes read
Christine Ay Tjoe is an Indonesian contemporary visual artist and painter who challenges the codes of abstract art. Her work is a fusion of deep emotional and abstract expressionism, capturing the complexity of human feelings through bold shapes and colors.
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Gary Hume: Modern Art Through Everyday Objects
Dec 3, 2024
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8 minutes read
Gary Hume is a British contemporary artist renowned for his minimalist, high-gloss paintings and bold use of color, often blending abstraction and figurative elements. A key figure in the Young British Artists (YBA) movement, he gained prominence with his Door Paintings and continues to explore themes of form, light, and surface in his work.
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Emanuel Aguiar, Surrealism inspiration
Jun 18, 2022
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3 minutes read
Emanuel Aguiar's inspiration comes from surrealism and pursues the desire to evoke sensations in the viewer through the vision of colors...
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Arduino Rossi, a painting that reveals emotions
Jan 1, 2022
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3 minutes read
Arduino Rossi's painting is characterized by the use of warm and cold, light and dark colors, bringing to life a very personal style halfway between geometric and abstract, aimed at expressing the emotions and feelings of the artist. ...
Art History
The most popular artists of 2023
Jan 23, 2024
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12 minutes read
Who are some of Artmajeur's most popular artists in 2023? Find out in this story, which talks about contemporary artists by contextualizing them within the long narrative of art history!
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The Anka Girls: Art at the Crossroads of Abstraction and Art Brut
Sep 9, 2024
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3 minutes read
The Anka Girls , a duo of visual artists from Champagne, merge abstraction, outsider art, and street art to explore questions of gender and identity through vibrant and impactful works, combining painting and monumental sculptures. Their bold artistic approach, in tune with contemporary concerns, makes them a promising investment in the art market.
Art History
Artists' love of brown
Oct 9, 2022
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7 minutes read
The presence of brown within the history of art boasts a very ancient tradition; in fact, umber, a natural clay pigment composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide, with which the aforementioned color was obtained, was used, both in prehistoric times, that is, in paintings dated 40,000 B.C., and in Upper Paleolithic art, well exemplified by the walls of the Lascaux cave, dating back some 17,300 years...
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Jérôme Royer, artistic freedom
Apr 30, 2022
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4 minutes read
The gestures that generate Jérôme Royer's paintings, derived from the martial arts, are part of a creative impulse in which the artist plays with unpredictability...
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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.
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Brent Wadden: Weaving Modernism into the Threads of Craft
Apr 7, 2025
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8 minutes read
Brent Wadden creates abstract woven works that merge painting, design, craft, and folk art. By mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, he blurs the boundaries between craft and painting. His use of repetition through warp and weft welcomes imperfections and variations, highlighting subtle disruptions in line, color, and form...
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Prince George's reindeer painting hailed by the artist who made the original greeting card
Jan 2, 2023
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2 minutes read
Artist Hannah Dale, whose Christmas card may have inspired Prince George's reindeer drawing, said the young royal "has an eye for form and color."