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Drawing Now Paris 2025: The unmissable event for contemporary drawing
Mar 12, 2025
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Drawing Now Paris 2025, the first contemporary art fair dedicated to drawing in Europe, will be held from March 27 to 30 at the Carreau du Temple, bringing together international galleries and emerging artists.
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The peculiarities of abstract drawing
May 18, 2022
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7 minutes read
Abstract art is not appreciated by all viewers, as for many of them the initial inability to understand or grasp its meaning is a major obstacle. In this sense, the simplicity and accessibility of drawing can help even the most skeptical viewer approach the mystery of such movement...
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Chifart, drawing a new visual perception
Dec 28, 2022
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3 minutes read
Chifart's artistic journey, which began at the age of 10 and turned professional at 20, has taught him a lot. His technique is essentially based on drawing, mixed media and how he incorporates them together to achieve the desired results...
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Efka9: I have always loved drawing
Apr 16, 2024
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4 minutes read
"As far back as I can remember, I have always loved drawing, painting, cutting, pasting, coloring, creating. No doubt this is partly genetic with many artists in my family, sculptors, painters, and musicians"...
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Malgorzata Lodygowska: drawing what surrounds me
Feb 14, 2024
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5 minutes read
"This has accompanied me since I was a child, it was as natural to me as everyday activities. The subjects that interested me from the very beginning were drawing what surrounded me, and animals, as a child I used to hide in a dog's crate. Among animals I felt safest."...
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Babatunde Bakare: drawing makes me express myself
Apr 30, 2024
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5 minutes read
"I have really loved drawing right from my little age, it is something that, and I found joy doing it, the major event that triggers this journey started in my primary school I was the best art students among my peers and even I do usually help some of my teacher in drawing on the chalk board."...
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Odile Faure: I have always been drawing
Jul 23, 2024
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5 minutes read
"This attraction to art naturally led me towards a baccalaureate in fine arts, supplemented by various evening courses at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon, which allowed me to pursue a career as a stylist-designer for different companies of silk."...
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Marie-Blanche Bayon, precise drawings and smooth surfaces
Dec 26, 2021
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Marie-Blanche Bayon's paintings are made unique by their smooth surfaces, on which, covered with carefully polished marble dust, precise drawings and gradations of light and color stand out ...
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Francesca Borgo: I’ve always enjoyed drawing and painting
Oct 28, 2023
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7 minutes read
"I’ve always enjoyed drawing and painting since I was kid and kept doing it as a hobby until 6-7 years ago. Then I had a medical condition that blocked me at home for weeks."
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ENRIQUE ETIEVAN: Realistic drawing creates an illusion
Oct 2, 2019
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There is both Magritte and Vasarely in Enrique Etievan: from the first, Belgian surrealist, he retains a vision of the world that is sometimes absurd but often soft and poetic. Like this 17th century hotel, straight out of the Place des Vosges, which is built on a rock just enough to accommodate it in the middle of the ocean. Or this jar of peppers in weightlessness in the Parisian sky.
Art History
Genius and drawing: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael
Jun 25, 2023
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9 minutes read
There are several ways to talk about the art of drawing, such as illustrating the origin of its technique by explicating its evolution, or showing in chronological order works that changed its history, finally...
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Iana Venedchuk, I have been drawing since childhood
Aug 29, 2023
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5 minutes read
"I have always looked at the world differently. I have a very hectic life and I have been looking for myself for a long time. She tried herself in more than 25 professions, but always returned to the art of painting. And in 2017, I resigned myself to the fact that this is me."
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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."...
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A man paid $ 30 for a drawing worth $ 50 million!
Nov 23, 2021
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3 minutes read
A Massachusetts man paid $30 for a drawing. It could be a genuine Dürer worth $50 million. The artwork is now on display at Agnews Gallery, which is looking for purchasers. A former curator of German Prints and Drawings at The British Museum agrees the drawing is genuine. Experts believe it is a copy of Dürer's The Virgin among a multitude of animals.
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Artists fight hunger in India by drawing plates
Oct 14, 2021
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3 minutes read
'The Plated Project' has created 20 limited-edition art plates during the lockdown. Each plate sponsors 250 meals for migrant workers and their families. Each plate conveys a different message about society, people, and the ties that bind us to the earth.
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Ynoxe: I have been drawing since I was little
Nov 28, 2023
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4 minutes read
"I got into graffiti very early on. Illegal or legal I have always been particularly fond of wastelands, I loved exploring them and bringing them back to life with the color of aerosols. Very often collective frescoes enhanced collaborations between artists. However, for a very long time I focused my work on lettering and their calligraphic research around my artist name."...
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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...
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Isabelle Cotillard: I have always loved modeling and drawing
Jan 13, 2024
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"My artistic approach is above all pleasure, I want everyone to find themselves or remember a past moment, a feeling of déjà vu or a feeling of experience in my paintings."...
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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...
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Szilvia Banki: I have always loved drawing and painting
Jan 28, 2025
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4 minutes read
"I graduated from art school in Budapest and was taught by renowned painters. I also studied painting techniques that I hope I have retained. My absolute favourite paint is oil paint, which in my opinion is the most malleable. Lately I have started to experiment and work with acrylic colours and acrylic textured paints..."
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Fake heiress Anna Delvey allegedly sold paintings and drawings for $340,000
Dec 26, 2022
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Anna Delvey has sold paintings and drawings of herself for a total of $340,000. Delvey was found guilty of theft, grand theft, and financial crimes. Her thefts were so well-known that Shonda Rhimes turned them into the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna.
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In a Paris auction, a rare Michelangelo drawing might reach $33 million
Apr 7, 2022
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A drawing by Michelangelo unearthed in 2019 will be auctioned next month. Christie's estimates it could fetch up to 30 million euros ($33 million). The drawing is estimated to date around the 15th century. It is one of the rare works by the Italian artist in private hands.
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The first drawings of King Charles III are put up for auction
Jun 15, 2023
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When they go up for sale this week, sweet crayon drawings by a young King Charles III will show a different side of Britain's royal family.
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Christophe Stephan Durand: At 9 years old I started drawing seriously
Nov 14, 2023
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"My artistic experience began very young. My father painted forgeries of masters. I remained in awe of his copies for a long time. At 9 years old I began to draw seriously. "...
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Between painting and drawing: the "borderline" art of marker, pastel, and ballpoint pen
May 21, 2024
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In the vast landscape of artistic techniques, some challenge traditional categories by positioning themselves between painting and drawing. The marker, pastel, and ballpoint pen exemplify this fusion, blending elements of both disciplines...
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Everything you need to know about the $12 drawing potentially signed by Renoir
Mar 28, 2025
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Pennsylvania antiques dealer Heidi Markow purchased a drawing for $12 at a local auction that may be an original Renoir painting of his wife, Aline Charigot. If the April 10th authentication confirms its origin, the work could fetch as much as $1 million.
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A smuggled Picasso drawing worth nearly $500,000 has been seized by Spanish authorities
Jul 21, 2022
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A smuggled Picasso drawing worth nearly $500,000 has been seized by Spanish customs officials. The artwork was found in a passenger's suitcase at an Ibiza airport. The traveller had not declared the piece, which is valued at 450,000 Swiss francs ($464,658).
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Frédéric Martin, drawing and painting have always been part of my daily life
Jun 7, 2023
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"My artistic career is the logical continuation of my commitment, 6 years of study at the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Paris, then years of drawing, posters and illustrations. "...
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Michael Cheung, My View on Beauty
Feb 18, 2023
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2 minutes read
"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"
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The Art of Ephemeral Spaces: Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s Impact on Urban Art
Aug 8, 2024
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest, born in 1942, is a pioneering French urban artist renowned for his ephemeral, site-specific art that engages with social and historical themes, capturing the human condition and societal struggles through large-scale, evocative works integrated into public spaces.
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Robert Longo: Pioneering Artist & Cultural Icon
Nov 18, 2024
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Robert Longo, born on January 7, 1953, is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer, and musician, known for his 1980s series Men in the Cities, which portrays men and women in formal clothing, contorted in intense emotional expressions...
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Matthew Barney: A Leading Figure in Performance, Avant-Garde Film, and Contemporary Art
Feb 3, 2025
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Matthew Barney is an American artist known for his ambitious multimedia works that blend film, sculpture, drawing, and performance. His most renowned project, the "Cremaster Cycle", explores themes of creation, sexuality, and mythology through a visually striking and conceptual approach.
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Samuel Dougados, beach art world champion
Oct 26, 2021
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Since 2007, Samuel Dougados is the first artist to make sand drawings, which last what a low tide lasts.
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Tim Burton: A Master of Dark Fantasy in Film and Visual Art
Aug 26, 2024
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6 minutes read
Tim Burton is an American filmmaker and visual artist known for his distinctive gothic style, blending dark fantasy with quirky humor in films like “Edward Scissorhands” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. His artistic work, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures, reflects the same whimsical yet eerie aesthetic that defines his cinematic creations.
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Jack Pierson: A Journey Through Memory, Identity, and Contemporary Art
Dec 27, 2024
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4 minutes read
Jack Pierson (b. 1960, Plymouth, Massachusetts) is an American visual artist and photographer. Recognized for his diverse body of work, including photography, collages, text-based sculptures, installations, drawings, and artist publications...
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Martin Zanollo: The creative process is a value for me
Nov 19, 2024
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7 minutes read
“I started painting and drawing a little before I began my studies in architecture. It has always been for me a way of thinking about reality and expressing my own being in every moment...”....