Artist Portraits
Dominic Virtosu, large format canvases
Nov 4, 2021
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1 minutes read
The canvases are large format, bright colors and the themes worked in series. Apart from these characteristics, the work of Dominic Virtosu is difficult to describe. We see in his series devoted to cacti like a desire to exhaust the subject with all the resources offered by oil painting.
Art History
The hidden secrets of large formats
Dec 27, 2021
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6 minutes read
The following selection of large-format works of art from Artmajeur's collection aims to demonstrate how the originality and independence of contemporary art has often been the result of inspiration drawn, more or less unconsciously, from the most important artistic currents in the history of art of the past...
Artist Portraits
Olena Bratiychuk Linse: Painting is a feeling of freedom
Feb 27, 2024
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7 minutes read
"Curiosity was and is the most important basis for my artistic creation. I have tried different techniques and various motifs. It was a years-long journey. Initially, I experimented with mural painting, icon painting, and fresco painting."...
Artist Portraits
Jean-Pierre Craninx, the light that fascinates me
Dec 20, 2021
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3 minutes read
Jean-Pierre Craninx's painting, produced in a very avant-garde mixed technique, comes from the light that fascinates him, his graphic encounters, his reflections ...
Artist Portraits
Norbert Engel Interview
Sep 2, 2019
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1 minutes read
The sale process took place in a climate of mutual trust.
Art News
Artmajeur magazine N° 16 Winter 2020-2021
Jan 5, 2021
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1 minutes read
Contents of this issue:André SchulzeCountryside landscapesGraffiti world tourLabaudAspencrow
Artist Portraits
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...”....
Artist Portraits
Thierry Corpet, Resilience
Feb 1, 2023
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7 minutes read
"As far back as I can remember, I have always been enthusiastic about drawing and painting, but my very first encounter with art was decisive"...
Artist Portraits
Sophie Dumont, I was born into a family of artists
Sep 11, 2023
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4 minutes read
“I started with pastels and quickly moved on to oils, which I never put down. The material became more important over the years, the technique became more refined”
Artist Portraits
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."...
Artist Portraits
Jerome Labrunerie:
Apr 28, 2025
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10 minutes read
"From a very young age, art has been with me. My first artistic influence came from my father. One event in particular had a profound impact on me: a drawing he made for me of a wolf. It was so precise and realistic that it frightened me as much as it fascinated me. This vivid image of the wolf has never left me."...
Art News
Magritte: a masterpiece sold for $121.2 million
Nov 20, 2024
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2 minutes read
René Magritte set a new auction record at Christie's, where his work "The Empire of Lights" sold for $121.2 million , surpassing his previous record of $78.95 million.
Artist Portraits
Ruslan Nikankin, part of my soul
Feb 15, 2023
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5 minutes read
"I use oil in my works. In my opinion, it's the most lively material, it doesn't require precision, it requires your feelings, your actions on the canvas, which gives the work always an original structure".
Lifestyle
HOW DID EMMA "MEXICANIZE" HER INTERIOR?
Mar 24, 2020
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2 minutes read
Charlotte is fed up with Scandinavian decoration. Her cold, pale and bland tones are no longer made for her. Charlotte, what she likes are the warm interiors, flooded with color, the summer atmospheres. Since his trip to Tijuana, azure blues, fuchsia pinks and spicy yellows have marked his heart forever. But how to give this Mexican "warmth" without redoing the apartment from top to bottom?
Artist Portraits
Iryna Kastsova, I still continue to experiment with techniques and styles
Sep 8, 2023
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6 minutes read
"I started painting at the age of 5 with watercolors when I wanted to become an artist. Every summer I spent with my grandmother in the village."
Artist Portraits
Luigi Veronesi: An Exploration of Geometric Abstraction and Modern Art
Jul 30, 2024
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5 minutes read
Luigi Veronesi, an influential figure in the realm of geometric abstraction, masterfully combined art with mathematics, music, and photography to create a unique visual language...
Artist Portraits
Alain Bouillot, gives a second life to forgotten and discarded elements
Nov 30, 2021
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2 minutes read
Alain Bouillot is an artist who gives a second life to forgotten, discarded elements. He denounces junk food, the invasion of waste and warns of the consequences on the environment!
Artist Portraits
Jems cehes, canvases, brushes and spray cans
Feb 27, 2022
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3 minutes read
Jems Cehes' works don't try to show something, they actually do! All this thanks to a technique that mixes the use of airbrush, spray can, brushes and canvas...
Artist Portraits
Sophie Mathieu: it’s the moment of creating the painting that I like
Nov 6, 2023
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6 minutes read
“I like the grazing lights, the improbable colors of nature sometimes, I would like people who see one of my paintings to feel the powerful and comforting nature, the calming”...
Artist Portraits
Marie Saksik, the sculpture that explores the female body
Dec 5, 2021
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3 minutes read
Marie Saksik was inspired by several vacation trips to Asia, after which she began to represent mostly young women, content, serene and sometimes dreamy.
Art News
When will the restoration of Notre-Dame cathedral, at a cost of 846 million euros, reopen to the public?
Aug 2, 2022
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3 minutes read
An important date has been set for the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris!
Artist Portraits
Andreas Gursky, capturing the monumental scale of the modern world
Jul 13, 2023
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8 minutes read
Andreas Gursky is a renowned German photographer, famous for his large format images that vividly capture the scale and essence of our contemporary society. His methodical approach and visually powerful aesthetic make him one of the most influential artists in contemporary photography.
Artist Portraits
Simonida Djordjevic, freedom of expression
Oct 19, 2022
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7 minutes read
At first, Simonida Djordjevic painted on wooden panels, where she made the drawing with a paste she made herself, and I painted with oil...
Artist Portraits
Sebastien Devore, the art that hides a message
Jan 12, 2022
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3 minutes read
Sebastien Devore's paintings, the result of extensive research and preparatory drawings, generally contain a message, a feeling or a food for thought ...
Artist Portraits
Manuel Di Chiara
Jul 26, 2023
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8 minutes read
I consider myself lucky because I had good art teachers from the very first schools, and they are the ones who always encouraged me to pursue art studies.
Artist Portraits
Pierre Ittner: Art for processing emotions
Oct 29, 2024
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8 minutes read
“Art offers me the opportunity to process emotions, question things and see the world from a new perspective.”
Artist Portraits
Paolo Benedetti, the technique of "Contemporary Graphics".
Dec 25, 2021
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3 minutes read
Paolo Benedetti's very personal production stands out for the use of a technique, considered by many art critics to be genuinely interesting and unique, called "Contemporary Graphics", where vibrant brushstrokes create "New Visual Suggestions "...
Artist Portraits
Stanislav Bojankov: The beginning is always somewhere in childhood
Mar 24, 2025
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7 minutes read
"I have tried everything. At earlier stages I worked in more realistic forms and genres such as landscape, portrait and figurative, later some genre and stylistic changes began in the direction of abstraction and associativity, in the direction of musical sensations and vibrations, related to the abstract and subconscious recreation of sensations, feelings, emotions. In search of other channels of communication, expression and subjective perception"...
Artist Portraits
Angelika Poels, the eternal feeling of wanting to create
Jan 23, 2022
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4 minutes read
The art of Angelika Poels, which uses different techniques and materials, can arise from the most spontaneous ideas of the artist, but also from the observation of reality and the world of art ...
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
Christine Barth Mroz: Light in Motion
Apr 4, 2025
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4 minutes read
Christine Barth Mroz transforms light and emotion into living matter, in abstract canvases where each gesture is a poetic breath. Her intuitive approach, rich in natural textures and spontaneity, seduces with its depth and luminous intensity.
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
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
Valérie Jayat: a vital need to create
Oct 24, 2023
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4 minutes read
"My style is identified immediately, and that's the hardest thing to achieve. A certain poetry, sometimes tinged with humor, a grating language at times. My colors are very particular to me."
Artist Portraits
Camille Sanchez, art to represent life
Mar 26, 2022
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5 minutes read
Camille Sanchez's art stems from her love of nature, which drives her to represent life and everything related to it...
Artist Portraits
Evelyne Sie, I have always loved to draw
Aug 12, 2023
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4 minutes read
I have always loved to draw, and that since my childhood. As a child, I drew the characters from "Mickey's newspaper" then, as a teenager, the models for perfume advertisements...