Artist Portraits
CONSUELO WALKER GUZMÁN: Pins don't hide anymore
Sep 30, 2019
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Generally, seamstresses make great use of pins, scissors, tape measures, thread or needles. And then, when the work is finished, they put away all this hardware so that only the final realization, the haute couture dress, the wedding hat, the winter cape, is shown.
Artist Portraits
Bunny Yeager: A Legacy of Pin-Up and Photography Innovation
Jul 19, 2024
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8 minutes read
Bunny Yeager, born Linnea Eleanor Yeager on March 13, 1929, was a groundbreaking American photographer and pin-up model who revolutionized the genre with her collaborations with iconic models, innovative photography, and influential works, leaving a lasting legacy in erotic and fashion photography upon her death on May 25, 2014.
Pop Culture
Big pink stuffed animals invade the buildings of our cities
Feb 24, 2023
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1 minutes read
Andrés Reisinger is one of the most talented digital artists in the world, using his innovative and one-of-a-kind creations to challenge our understanding of reality by "installing" fluffy and flossy pink drapes on buildings in key international capitals.
Art News
Angelina Jolie's New Space Facade Gets Splashed with Pink Paint
Aug 31, 2023
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2 minutes read
Angelina Jolie's recently established space has undergone a striking transformation as its facade is now coated in vibrant pink paint, marking a departure from its previous appearance. The change has generated intrigue and speculation about the motives behind this colorful shift.
Lifestyle
François Pinault: an eminent figure among art connoisseurs
Sep 26, 2023
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9 minutes read
François Pinault, born on August 21, 1936, is a French tycoon in the world of business. He is renowned as the founder of the opulent conglomerate Kering and the investment holding entity Artémis...
Art News
This would be the Pink Panthers gang who allegedly stole the diamonds from TEFAF
Mar 6, 2023
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2 minutes read
The famous Dutch art fair, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), is where diamonds were stolen last year. On Friday, the Limburg police department said that they think a Balkan gang is to blame.
Art News
The Pinault Dynasty's Next Act: A Fresh Face Takes the Helm at Christie's
Apr 8, 2024
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François Louis Nicolas Pinault, at 26, steps into the Christie's board, marking a generational shift in the Pinault family's luxury empire. This appointment signifies a broader transition within family-controlled businesses in France, reinforcing the Pinaults' influence in the art and luxury sectors.
Art News
Support artists during lockdown! #ArtistSupportPledge
Apr 3, 2020
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1 minutes read
Artists selling 5 works pledge to buy 1 artwork from another artist!
Art History
David Bailey
Jul 4, 2023
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10 minutes read
David Bailey is a renowned British fashion and portrait photographer, best known for his iconic work in the 1960s and 1970s, capturing the essence of the Swinging London era and photographing numerous celebrities and models. He became one of the most influential photographers of his time, leaving a lasting impact on the fashion and photography industries.
Art News
Uffizi Gallery brings Renaissance masterpieces up to children's level
Nov 24, 2021
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3 minutes read
The Uffizi has rebranded its children's programming. A team of traveling representatives are dedicated to answering young visitors' questions. The aim is to normalize art for kids so they'll think to themselves, "I'll stop by the museum," an official says.
Artist Portraits
John Currin: Satirical Art Meets Classical Mastery
Nov 12, 2024
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7 minutes read
John Currin is an American painter celebrated for his technically masterful and provocative works that blend classical portraiture with satirical and often erotic depictions of contemporary figures. Known for exploring themes of beauty, sexuality, and social dynamics, his art combines historical influences with modern social critique, making him a distinctive voice in contemporary figurative painting.
Art News
Cj Hendry enchants Brooklyn with her immersive exhibition "Keff Joons"
Apr 14, 2025
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4 minutes read
Cj Hendry transforms a Brooklyn gallery into a playful and immersive universe with Keff Joons, an exhibition inspired by Jeff Koons' balloon sculptures. Through interactive and nostalgic works, it explores themes of joy, fragility, and collective memory.
Art History
Is it possible to compare Banksy with "more traditional" art?
Jan 4, 2023
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9 minutes read
Banksy, an underground artist originally from the Bristol, UK scene, has been spreading his politicized, subversive and daring graffiti since the 1990s, although, only since 2005, has media interest become aware of the value of his point of view, made extremely fascinating also by the willingness of the "controversy artist" himself to conceal his identity, an action that seems to us to conform to the most natural attitude of superheroes...
Art History
Beyond Painting: Abstraction in Other Artistic Media
Aug 13, 2024
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12 minutes read
Abstract art is an artistic current that departs from traditional figurative art, representing a reality that is not objective and not recognizable. My intent is to explain and illustrate how the said language has expressed itself outside the more traditional painting...
Art History
Contemporary art AGAINST the canons of feminine beauty
Mar 8, 2022
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6 minutes read
It is irrefutable: our society is literally obsessed with the size and shape of the human body, which are also considered, unjustifiably and superficially, a sort of mirror of personal identity. But has it always been so? Surely contemporary art has rebelled against this mechanism?
Art History
Shōgatsu and the Takarabune: Symbolic Imagery and Cultural Heritage
Jun 13, 2024
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Shōgatsu, Japan's New Year celebration, evolved from the Meiji period's calendar reforms, shifting from the lunisolar to the Gregorian calendar. Despite changes, it remains pivotal, featuring rituals like hatsumode shrine visits and symbolic foods like osechi-ryōri and zōni, symbolizing renewal and family unity. Contemporary Japanese art draws from these traditions, merging traditional motifs with modern styles, preserving Shōgatsu's cultural importance in global practices and art.
Artist Portraits
Marie Cohydon carves incredible little bird sculptures that require a microscope to be appreciated
Nov 17, 2021
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2 minutes read
French artist Marie Cohydon's microscopic sculptures require a microscope to view in detail. The graphite in the pencil is five millimeters high and two millimeters wide for reference. "To be working in the millimeter is to be in another dimension," she says.
Art History
Koons' childhood, Murakami's alter ego and Kaws' "Mickey Mouse"
Mar 12, 2023
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8 minutes read
Do you remember when you were a child and felt, despite your anonymity, sometimes limiting tender age and nervous crying behind mom's lifesaving skirt, like real creative geniuses in the art world contemporary to you?...
Art History
Top 10: collages
Jul 12, 2023
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12 minutes read
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: by means of this numerical climax that goes by the name of top 10, aimed at placing the most relevant collages in the history of art one after the other, in order of relevance, I want to bring the reader closer to the knowledge of an artistic technique that is often sidelined, in the face of the more popular painting, sculpture and photography...
Art History
The history of Polish art: traditions halfway between Europe and Russia
May 8, 2022
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6 minutes read
Polish art, while maintaining its own peculiarities of genre and style, has often reflected the figurative trends expressed by the movements of neighboring countries and continents, such as Russia and Europe. This is due to the fact that, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Poland did not yet exist as a state, since it was divided between Austria, Russia and Prussia, countries from which it drew obvious artistic contaminations...
Artist Portraits
Cildo Meireles: Brazilian Conceptual Artist and Installation Pioneer
Sep 27, 2024
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Cildo Meireles, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, is a leading figure in Brazilian conceptual and installation art. Known for his politically charged works, Meireles often explores themes of resistance against Brazil's military dictatorship and broader socio-political oppression...
Art News
With a New Leader, the Palais de Tokyo Will Revert to Its Experimental Roots
Jan 12, 2022
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With its previous president departing to oversee François Pinault's collection, the Palais de Tokyo has appointed Guillaume Désanges as its new president. Désanges is a curator and critic who has teased plans to restore the Paris museum to its avant-garde roots.
Art History
2023: like Alice in Wonderland...
Jan 22, 2023
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9 minutes read
In keeping with the most classic Disney quote, I refer to the image of Alice, who, lying comfortably on a meadow in the company of her cat, lets time pass lost in thought. At some point, as we all know, the maiden's attention is caught by a strangely elegant and hasty rabbit, who, erect on his two white paws is pining in order not to be late for who knows what ever appointment...
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 News
A museum employee's furtive exposure leads to expulsion
Apr 10, 2024
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2 minutes read
An employee at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne clandestinely displayed his own art alongside modernist masterpieces, sparking a police investigation. Following the stunt, he was dismissed and banned from the museum.
Art History
Decoding “Strangers Everywhere”: Artmajeur artists interpret the themes of the Venice Biennale 2024
May 14, 2024
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Artmajeur artists creatively engage with the themes of the Venice Biennale 2024, representing art movements as diverse as Outsider Art, Queer Art, Folk Art, and narratives against racism...
Artist Portraits
FRÉDÉRIC PAUL: Photographer in the style of old painters
Oct 10, 2019
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Frédéric Paul works with photography as others work with oil painting: by successive “glazes”, allowing different textures, palettes and patterns to be superimposed and integrated into his work. The result is a specific work to which the artist has chosen to affix a specific name, pinxophotography.
Art History
The Trees in Art History
Oct 17, 2023
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8 minutes read
We would need a thousand more poems, because if this last one places trees next to houses, other times they seem alone, or accompanied by figures or animals, and sometimes even as mute and immobile spectators of 'fantastic' events...
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...
Artist Portraits
Roberto Ferrero, photography to describe the world
Dec 19, 2021
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Photography allows Roberto Ferrero to tell, through images, his way of seeing life and the world. Indeed, according to the artist, making art is above all a personal experience, an interior dialogue, made up of questions and answers ...
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 History
Art that has fun: snowballs and sleds
Dec 28, 2022
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9 minutes read
Usually, when we think of the winter art-landscape pair, we imagine quiet, "silent" and desolate paintings, which, like the most typical postcards of the season, turn out to be dominated by the white blanket of snow, on which the "severe presence of pine trees", high-topped mountains, small and isolated wooden houses and rare forms of animal life, which, scampering around outside, defy the low temperatures with a spontaneous and natural predisposition...
Art News
New modern art museum opens in Milan
Dec 9, 2024
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The opening of Palazzo Citterio, after 52 years of waiting, marks a major milestone for Milan's cultural scene, presenting 20th-century Italian art and prestigious collections by Jesi and Vitali
Art History
Bacchus by Caravaggio
Apr 12, 2023
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8 minutes read
Caravaggio's Bacchus is a masterpiece of Baroque painting, depicting the Roman god of wine and fertility reclining on a bed of grapes and holding a goblet of wine in his left hand. The painting is notable for its striking use of light and shadow, and its intense emotional impact.
Art News
Mixed Reactions as Giant Inflatable Sculpture Takes Over Ruthin School Lawn
Aug 30, 2024
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A 13-meter-tall pink inflatable man created by Chinese artist Yue Minjun has sparked mixed reactions in the Welsh town of Ruthin, where it has been displayed as part of an arts festival, with some residents praising its boldness and others questioning its appropriateness.
Artist Portraits
Alexander Kusenko, art to capture and share reality
Mar 5, 2022
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2 minutes read
Alexander Kusenko's paintings seek to capture new impressions of the state of nature in order to share them with the viewer....