Artist Portraits
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 color red in Artmajeur photographs
Dec 9, 2023
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9 minutes read
Let's start by saying that there are two ways to make you understand that I am talking about the color red, one simple, visual, and intuitive, the other complex, scientific, and educational...
Art History
Warm and Cool Colors in Art
Mar 5, 2024
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10 minutes read
Warm and cool colors will be showcased within the narrative of art history, following two basic intentions: the first is to juxtapose classic masterpieces with contemporary works from Artmajeur, while the other consists of comparing two types of writing...
Artist Portraits
Jean Turco, the art of sharing pleasure
Sep 7, 2022
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8 minutes read
Jean Turco's idea has always been to share the pleasure he felt in seeing one or other of the things that present themselves to our gaze, either as they really are when the light puts them in value, either in the way I see them, to take them out of context to make images that illustrate an idea, a smile or a message to a muse, a friend, a collector or a simple stranger...
Art History
Egon Schiele's self-portraits: a figurative biography
Oct 19, 2022
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8 minutes read
Schiele's work fine-tuned an expressive approach marked by contorted figures and "sharp" brushstrokes that, extremely charged with emotional energy, still represent a powerful symbol of psychological, emotional and sexual expression...
Artist Portraits
JEAN-JACQUES ABDALLAH: The Pyrenees, in by the stone and by the stone
Feb 19, 2020
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0 minutes read
Jean-Jacques Abdallah was born among horses in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Fifty years later, he is still looking to renew his gaze on the bestiary of his original mountain, using the stones provided by the massif.
Artist Portraits
Hetty Hameleers: When photography becomes a breath of soul and nature
Jan 17, 2025
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3 minutes read
Hetty Hameleers creates powerful works that blend photography and digital art to raise awareness of the fragile beauty of the animal world. Produced in museum-quality limited editions, her portraits are deeply moving and represent a meaningful artistic investment.
Artist Portraits
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.
Art History
The Hat of Francisco Goya
Jan 13, 2024
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8 minutes read
Definition of a hat: A piece of clothing intended to cover the head partially or fully, either for embellishment or protection from the sun, wind, rain, snow, etc. It is also commonly used to cover baldness or to hide unwashed hair (said with irony)...
Art History
Top 10: the most scandalous nudes in art
May 31, 2023
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13 minutes read
My top ten has selected the best nude, crude, sensual, sometimes erotic and, as a result, extremely "scandalous," "demonic" and sometimes "dangerous" masterpieces for the eyes of those viewers most susceptible to the externalization of the sinuosities of the human body...
Art News
Titian’s Early Masterpiece Breaks Auction Records at Christie’s for $22.1 Million
Jul 4, 2024
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1 minutes read
Christie’s London set a new auction record for Titian when his "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" (c.1510) sold for $22,178,280, surpassing the previous record of $16.9 million. The painting, offered by Ceawilin Thynn, the 8th Marquess of Bath, as part of an investment strategy, highlights Titian’s enduring legacy and the strong demand for Old Master paintings.
Artist Portraits
Pere Lluís León: The charm of poetic realism at the service of the imagination
Mar 28, 2025
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4 minutes read
Pere Lluís León is a unique Catalan artist whose work combines the precision of scientific illustration with the poetry of symbolism. His paintings, rich in mystery and intensity, invite slow contemplation, conducive to emotion and reflection.
Artist Portraits
Luis Mielle: the elegance of realism in the service of human memory
Jun 16, 2022
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4 minutes read
Luis Mielle immortalizes the human soul with rare finesse, blending classical realism with contemporary emotion. His portraits, steeped in history and detail, stand out as powerful and timeless works in today's artistic landscape.
Artist Portraits
Rémy Tassou, an incentive for selective sorting
Nov 16, 2021
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1 minutes read
Rémy Tassou has made recycling the basis of his artistic approach and takes the opportunity to encourage selective sorting. He gives them a second life by reusing them to create sculptures based on calculators, CD-ROMs, computers, cell phones ...
Art History
Édouard Manet
Jun 1, 2023
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12 minutes read
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter and a key figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. He is known for his innovative approach, which challenged artistic conventions and depicted scenes from contemporary life with a unique style that left a lasting impact on the art world.
Art History
Cindy Sherman
Jun 23, 2023
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15 minutes read
Cynthia Morris Sherman, born in 1954, is an American artist renowned for her art that mainly features self-portraits captured through photography. Her work involves portraying herself in diverse settings and assuming different fictional personas...
Art News
Vermeer's Masterpiece Evokes 10x More Emotion Than Prints
Oct 14, 2024
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2 minutes read
Discover how Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring elicits 10x more emotional brain activity than replicas. Neuroscience reveals the painting's unique power to captivate attention.
Art News
ArtMajeur Magazine No. 33
Mar 28, 2025
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2 minutes read
Art is constantly evolving, blending past influences with contemporary visions in a play of colors, textures, and emotions. From the vibrant energy of Popcorn Yellow to Laurence Jenk 's playful sculptures, Preston M. Smith 's dynamic compositions, and Isabelle Pelletane 's poetic abstractions, each work invites us to explore new artistic horizons.
Art History
The portrait "AGAINST" contemporary art
Jan 30, 2022
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4 minutes read
In the world of art, styles, techniques, subjects and points of view have succeeded one another over the centuries, generating particular artistic movements and trends. The portrait genre, which has undergone several evolutions, continues to be a subject investigated by contemporary art...
Art History
The shadow behind the brush: the most disturbing biographies in art history
Oct 29, 2024
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20 minutes read
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...
Art History
The different histories of Expressionism
Aug 3, 2022
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7 minutes read
«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
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
Jun 21, 2023
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22 minutes read
The painting known as The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych created by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch between 1490 and 1510. It is painted with oil on oak panels and is currently housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain...
Art History
Top 10: Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits
Apr 23, 2023
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13 minutes read
My introduction to the contrary takes the latter meaning in that it aims to omit, only temporarily, both the description of Vincent Van Gogh's multiple self-portraits and the analysis of their historical-artistic, technical, emotional, and stylistic context of belonging...
Artist Portraits
Lito, I have always been attracted to artistic expression
May 13, 2023
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6 minutes read
"For as long as I can remember I have always been attracted to artistic expression. I remember contemplating the classical sculptures in art books, or the engravings in Rolf Muller's Old and Picturesque Europe with awe and fascination"...
Art History
Mona Lisa: the mystery continues in contemporary art
Mar 5, 2022
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6 minutes read
The Portrait of Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is an inescapable masterpiece of art history, to say the least, which, created by the great master Leonardo da Vinci, between about 1503 and 1505, continues to be a popular subject in contemporary art...
Art History
The Ten Artmajeur Photographers You Absolutely Can't Miss
Aug 16, 2024
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13 minutes read
Let's discover together the Ten Artmajeur Photographers You Absolutely Can't Miss. On the occasion of International Photography Day, which is celebrated on August 19, let's explore together the extraordinary talents that have captured the attention of curators...
Art History
The Timeless Art of Drawing: 10 Masterpieces That Made History
Mar 25, 2025
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10 minutes read
With the arrival of the Salon du dessin 2025, which will bring together collectors, experts, and enthusiasts from around the world at the Palais Brongniart, this is the perfect moment to celebrate the fundamental role of drawing in the history of art...
Pop Culture
Miniaturist Artist: Her Tiny Version of Monet Reunited with the Original
Jul 21, 2023
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3 minutes read
Ana Sofía Casaverde, Peruvian artist, went to the National Gallery of Art to admire "Woman with a Parasol", a work that she had painstakingly reproduced with the help of a needle.
Artist Portraits
SEKHMET: There is beauty in everything
Sep 19, 2019
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3 minutes read
Very close to the beautiful town of Saumur, on the banks of the Loire, there is a forest like no other. Let's meet a different artist.
Artist Portraits
Éric Lespinasse: The visual poetry of a master of light
Oct 12, 2023
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3 minutes read
Éric Lespinasse is a Parisian photographer and digital artist whose work combines light, poetry, and modernity with rare elegance. His works capture the ephemeral, creating frozen moments that are both intimate and universal.
Invest in Art
Why do many interiors appear so cheap? How can it be remedied ?
Jul 20, 2023
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7 minutes read
Many interiors appear low-end due to a lack of attention to detail, excessive use of serial reproductions, and lack of character in the chosen works. To remedy this, it is essential to favor quality works, to opt for unique pieces and to pay particular attention to colors, dimensions and styles.
Art History
The world as told by Realism
Oct 12, 2022
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7 minutes read
Realism first emerged in France, during the 1850s, when, after the Revolution of 1848, with the introduction of the right to work, art began to take an interest in the working-class population, as well as its environments and scenes of daily life...
Art History
The Typical Subjects of Flemish Art Today: Still Lifes, Interiors, and Genre Scenes
Apr 1, 2025
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7 minutes read
It is therefore interesting to highlight how the influence of the iconic subjects of Flemish art extends to the present day, inspiring contemporary artists on ArtMajeur who reinterpret these traditional genres with new visual languages.
Art History
Top ten fashion photographers
Sep 30, 2023
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12 minutes read
This article is dedicated to all those who want to know about photography but are too lazy to commit to study. This article is made for all those who are bored of reading Wikipedia, because beyond the list of dates or a rather cold interpretation, they urgently need to be stimulated, entertained and accompanied in learning...
Artist Portraits
"l/indien": the stripes of Liberty
Nov 23, 2020
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3 minutes read
The Indian considers himself a self-taught artist. And in fact, after this passage to the Fine Arts, he decides to stop his artistic practice. The artist uses the lines as a vector of passing time. The artist of L / Indien, Anne-Dévailloye Texte, is interested in my practice of Street-art: the consumption of art and information to mix the two.
Art News
Andrea Solario's "Madonna and Child Reading" from the Poldi Pezzoli collection has been restored to its former glory, all thanks to Wannenes.
Sep 11, 2023
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3 minutes read
"Andrea Solario's "Madonna with the Reading Child," which is part of the collections at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, has been restored to its original splendor thanks to the Restoration Club and the contribution of the auction house Wannenes."