Art News
Views by Renoir of Guernsey will be exhibited together for the first time on the island
Apr 18, 2023
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4 minutes read
The show will start at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny and then move to the Candie Museum on the island of Guernsey.
Artist Portraits
Karlijn Surminski, a story behind every artwork
Feb 1, 2022
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3 minutes read
Behind each of Karlijn Surminski's works is a story, told through the power of images, created by a painting rich in themes, subjects and points of view.
Artist Portraits
Jasmine Roy, the love story with the subjects represented
Mar 19, 2022
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4 minutes read
Jasmine Roy's works are the result of a love affair between the artist and the subject, which is explored with a very personal composition of desaturated colors...
Art News
Major art facility and residence program has opened in the Angolan capital of Luanda
Nov 5, 2021
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4 minutes read
The Nesr Art Foundation intends to counter under-representation of African art. Angola hosted a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time in 2013, but infrastructure for artists remains scant. The foundation will provide studio and living space for eight artists per year, working in pairs, in four sessions lasting three months each.
Artist Portraits
David Mwayila, creating a better future
Feb 25, 2023
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4 minutes read
"First, it was in primary school that my teacher had oriented me to do art, and afterwards I felt obliged to do art, in order to denounce the injustices that we, the children of Congolese soldiers, undergo".
Artist Portraits
Eric Odartey Cruickshank: trust your instincts
Jul 30, 2024
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4 minutes read
"I've always been the kind of person who trusts their instincts in matters of passion. I vividly recall my introduction to painting after seeing a hand made advertising poster of Arnold Schwarzenegger at a cinema, and from that moment, I've been an enthusiast and practitioner of art, aspiring to elevate it further."...
Artist Portraits
Brazo: a strong desire to communicate emotions
Jan 1, 2025
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4 minutes read
"Since childhood, I have had a strong desire to communicate the emotions I feel and to express them using a space free from rules and interference. I have always found this possibility in art."
Artist Portraits
Roberto Canduela, sculptures with soul
Jul 27, 2022
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9 minutes read
For Roberto Canduela, creating works of art is not a voluntary choice, but a vital necessity, a creative mechanism that allows him to externalize his unconscious side...
Artist Portraits
Dmitry Oleyn: Drawing is a part of my soul
May 14, 2024
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6 minutes read
"Drawing is a part of my soul. Without painting, I cannot see either my past or my future. When I was a child, drawings were literally everywhere—in the wallpaper of my room, in school notebooks. My parents immediately realized that they were raising an artist and supported me when I entered the Art University."...
Artist Portraits
Aleksandr Ilichev, constant, incessant need to paint
Sep 17, 2022
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7 minutes read
Alexander Ilyichev, an artist born in 1958, is constantly driven by a strong and constant need to draw, which leads him to create unique works with a highly recognizable style...
Artist Portraits
Artūras Tamašauskas, metals living a second life
Jun 29, 2022
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6 minutes read
Artūras Tamašauskas, after studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, had the opportunity to work as a metal engraver: it was then that he became acquainted with the subtleties of this material and an understanding of its potential applications...
Lifestyle
Lenny Kravitz: Music, Fashion, Art, and Design
Sep 5, 2023
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7 minutes read
Lenny Kravitz, a celebrated American musician famous for his eclectic music and unique style, is not only a music icon but also a passionate art collector and designer.
Art History
Raksha Bandhan: The Bond of Protection in Hindu Art
May 29, 2024
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6 minutes read
Raksha Bandhan, an annual Hindu festival meaning "the bond of protection" in Sanskrit, celebrates the protective and caring relationship between siblings through the ritual of sisters tying rakhis around their brothers' wrists and receiving gifts in return. This tradition has evolved and adapted, symbolizing not only familial bonds but also fostering voluntary kin relations and extending beyond traditional boundaries.
Artist Portraits
Yuehua He: I underwent a rigorous study
Dec 3, 2024
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7 minutes read
"I have undergone rigorous basic study and training since I was a child. When I was a teenager, I drew nearly a hundred sketches of plaster statues. My method was to first spend dozens of hours on in-depth study and characterization, and then, divorced from the actual objects, I drew silently from memory."...
Art News
Picasso's 'Woman with a Watch' Auctions for $139M Record
Nov 9, 2023
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Pablo Picasso's 1932 painting "Woman with a Watch" sold for a record $139 million at Sotheby's, becoming the year's most valuable auctioned artwork. It is the second-highest price ever fetched for a Picasso, after "The Women of Algiers" in 2015.
Art News
Devastating Los Angeles fires destroy Ron Rivlin's Warhol, Haring
Jan 15, 2025
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1 minutes read
The recent Los Angeles wildfires destroyed Ron Rivlin's collection of more than 200 works of art worth more than $2 million, including about 30 pieces by Andy Warhol and works by Keith Haring.
Art History
Paul Cézanne
May 19, 2023
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14 minutes read
Paul Cézanne was a French artist and painter who lived from 1839 to 1906. He was known as a Post-Impressionist artist whose work introduced new forms of representation and influenced the artistic movements of the early 20th century...
Art News
Most exciting discovery in a century of a Roman mosaic in a field
Dec 1, 2021
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3 minutes read
Mosaic is the first-ever uncovered in the UK depicting images from Homer's Iliad. It would have adorned an imposing eating and leisure hall within a big villa complex. The mosaic has been damaged by later building work and bears scorch marks from fires. The chamber was the focal point of a huge villa complex built in the late third or early fourth centuries AD
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Beata Dautrey Interview
Feb 28, 2018
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2 minutes read
I canceled the shop of my own site to sell my works at Artmajeur
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Vera Podkoritova - Testimonies of Ukrainian artists during the war
Jun 17, 2022
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1 minutes read
Like the rest of Ukraine, Ukrainian artists have been impacted by the war. Artmajeur here gives them the opportunity to talk about their daily lives. Today, discover the testimony of the artist Vera Podkoritova from Kiev (Ukraine)
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Serhii Brylov - Testimonies of Ukrainian artists during the war
Jun 18, 2022
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1 minutes read
Like the rest of Ukraine, Ukrainian artists have been impacted by the war. Artmajeur here gives them the opportunity to talk about their daily lives. Today, discover the testimony of the artist Serhii Brylov from Kyiv, Ukraine
MuseumTV
ARTMAJEUR PARTNER OF MUSEUM TV! EPISODE 7/10
Dec 22, 2020
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Episode 7/10 of our series. Artmajeur is a partner of the Museum TV channel (Bouquet Canal +), a benchmark of excellence for democratizing art. Together, they produce a series of 10 animated films called My Art Collection in 10 Clicks.
Art News
$4 Vase Sells for $107,000 at Auction
Dec 21, 2023
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Jessica Vincent bought a vase for $4 at a thrift store, which turned out to be a rare Carlo Scarpa Murano glass piece. It was later auctioned in New York for an astonishing $107,100.
Lifestyle
Artmajeur Magazine available on the Cafeyn digital newsstand
Jun 3, 2024
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1 minutes read
Cafeyn, an innovative digital press kiosk, has enriched its offering by integrating Artmajeur magazine, a crucial resource for contemporary art enthusiasts, allowing online and offline access to the latest trends and works of art. This collaboration provides a flexible and in-depth reading experience, allowing users to discover current and archived articles, and follow developments in the art world.
Artist Portraits
Eric Ullrich, incessant research
Jan 21, 2023
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4 minutes read
"What I took for a game when I was a child by mimicking my architect-sculptor grandfather and my painter uncle ended up becoming a reason for living."
Artist Portraits
Gus, a color blind artist
Dec 18, 2021
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4 minutes read
Gus' works, sold exclusively online, come from the artist's childhood memories: video games, Japanese cartoons and hip hop, but also from his love of ecology and the animal world ...
Artist Portraits
Mauricio Jose Miranda, positively transforming reality
Dec 29, 2021
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4 minutes read
Mauricio José Miranda knows and uses the majority of artistic techniques to generate works which, avoiding a particular figurative tendency, aim to positively immortalize reality.
Artist Portraits
Ahmed Alozade, digital painting
Jan 15, 2022
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4 minutes read
Ahmed Alozade's digital painting is characterized by elements of artistic style, creativity, emotion and imagination. This work is inspired by the world of feelings, the observation of reality, artistic and scientific information and the personal aesthetic taste of the artist ...
Artist Portraits
Giancarlo Morandi, an artifact that looks like a drawing
May 6, 2023
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4 minutes read
I am Italian, born in 1952 in Cremona, the city of the Torrazzo and the great violin makers. The passion for beauty arose in me as a boy, in the years of attending the Liceo artistico Toschi in Parma and then the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano...
Artist Portraits
Geneviève Vacca-Giachero, art is as necessary as breathing
Mar 6, 2022
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4 minutes read
Geneviève Vacca-Giachero is a self-taught artist who likes to indulge in various techniques in order to share her great love of life...
Artist Portraits
Alicia Zemanek, art influenced by the sea
Mar 23, 2022
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4 minutes read
Alicia Zemanek is a self-taught artist whose work pursues the intent of uniting decorative Orientalism with Western realism...
Artist Portraits
N Nathan, eye-catching art!
Jun 15, 2022
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4 minutes read
N Nathan is a versatile and self-taught artist who, depending on the project he is working on, experiments with different artistic techniques in order to capture the viewer's attention...
Artist Portraits
Michael Ostrogorski, I was raised in a house of artists
Oct 7, 2023
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4 minutes read
"I was raised in a house of artists. I spent my childhood and teenage years in my parents' studios, at gallery exhibitions or in the hallways of art academies."...
Artist Portraits
Alen Gurovic: Inspiration came from my life
Mar 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
"About 10 years ago, I chose photography as an artistic medium and started photographing nonsense that everyone else was already photographing. Then my goal was just to sell the photography and improve the household budget, but after a while I realized that this way of photography only spoiled my artistic side, and after that I started photographing my life from my early days until today. "
Art News
David Hockney exhibits his largest canvas ever, 314 feet (95 meters) long
May 16, 2022
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2 minutes read
Inspired by his year in lockdown, the frieze, which depicts a year in Normandy, was inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry
Artist Portraits
Conny Wachsmann Interview
Sep 8, 2017
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2 minutes read
I am an Artmajeur member since the first hour