Art History
Mosaic: history, techniques, and contemporary examples
Jan 6, 2024
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7 minutes read
The history of mosaic art begins with the earliest civilizations, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, and the people of the Minoan-Mycenaean region, who used this technique to adorn their buildings, sarcophagi, and floors...
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Hico, self-taught in his technique
Dec 7, 2022
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5 minutes read
Hico started drawing when he was 6-7 years old. Hico took a few courses, chose the visual arts option at the baccalaureate. But he is self-taught in my current technique....
Art History
Art quiz: guess the art technique!
Feb 8, 2023
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9 minutes read
Every time we read a book about art, go to a museum, exhibition or gallery, we can admire, live or on paper, a varying number of works of art, which is always accompanied by the name of the author, the title of the work, the year of execution, the technique, the measurements and the place of preservation...
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Viktor Sheleg, traditional and innovative painting techniques
Jul 9, 2022
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3 minutes read
Viktor Sheleg, an artist who grew up with a love of brushes, uses a wide range of painting techniques, both traditional and personally discovered...
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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 "...
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Viktor Kovalyk, I experimented with several techniques
Sep 5, 2023
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5 minutes read
"An example of inspiration in choosing an artist as a career was my teacher at a children's art school, he showed me the world - he taught me to see beauty."
Artist Portraits
Piotr Kachny: I have experimented with many techniques
Oct 8, 2024
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5 minutes read
"I have experimented with many techniques: dry pastels, oil pastels, ink, watercolor, markers, poster paint, and acrylics. However, I ultimately chose oil paint, which remains my most commonly used medium in painting. In drawing, I like to experiment and combine techniques. As for themes, I’ve probably gone through everything imaginable."...
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Stefano Mazzolini: I have tried all imaginable techniques
Sep 3, 2024
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6 minutes read
"I think that an artist is born and not made. Since I was a child, I had this fantasy and the need to express my creativity, which affects my dignity."...
Artist Portraits
Elise Gobeil, the technique of grisaille and glaze
Mar 29, 2023
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6 minutes read
"I have a natural aptitude for drawing, I put several years of practice into it before exploring the world of painting".
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Thomas Brémaud (La Pointe): the wire-to-point technique
Jun 18, 2024
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4 minutes read
"My artistic journey began with the wire-to-point technique, exploring my imagination and my thirst for escape. Over time, my daring creativity led me to face the canvas, revealing a remarkable artistic evolution." ..
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HORYMA: renewing the LightPainting genre with their own technique
Sep 30, 2019
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0 minutes read
In 1937, Man Ray produced the first work of art in light painting. This way of “painting with light” by means of the photo is something common today, but the Moscow duo Irina and Igor, founder of Horyma, renew the genre with their own technique. Meet.
Art History
The Silent Dialogue Between Technique and Instinct: Artists Compared
Sep 24, 2024
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8 minutes read
Too often, art criticism has paid little attention to meaningful comparisons between academically trained and self-taught artists. This occasion is therefore intended to break with this tradition, offering an innovative and unbiased analysis that does not seek to assert the superiority of one artistic category over the other...
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Painting: gold in the title and gold in the technique
Aug 19, 2023
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8 minutes read
When we think of gold within the history of art, it turns out to be rather easy, if not taken for granted, to focus and dwell on one artistic technique in particular, which, just for the moment...
Art News
Rare Chemical Compound Found in 'Mona Lisa' Reveals Leonardo's Technique
Oct 12, 2023
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2 minutes read
Scientists have identified a rare chemical compound, plumbonacrite, in the base layer of the Mona Lisa, suggesting Leonardo da Vinci experimented with unique techniques. This discovery sheds light on Leonardo's artistic process and highlights his penchant for innovation.
Art History
The technique of watercolor: from William Turner to contemporary times
Nov 16, 2022
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8 minutes read
Referring to the most accessible of definitions, Wikipedia describes watercolor as a painting technique marked by the use of finely ground pigments mixed with binders, which, at a later stage are diluted in water, in order to be spread on the pictorial support, in order to create compositions from characterizing soft and delicate colors...
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."
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Michael A. Craig: I have had the opportunity to experiment with many different techniques
Dec 22, 2023
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7 minutes read
"As a child I always enjoyed making things but the real epiphany came on a family trip to Paris at the age of twelve."...
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David Heger, the sparing use of colors
Oct 15, 2022
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5 minutes read
During his photographic journey, David Heger has really gone through many techniques, both analogue and digital, to finally settle on alternative photographic techniques...
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Irena Aizen, the psychology of human interrelationships
Jul 23, 2022
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8 minutes read
Irena Aizen's figurative production carries forward the goal of investigating subjects of personal interest to the artist. In fact, Aizen's works often analyze the psychology of human interrelationships, represented through the prism of naive and childlike perception of the world...
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Walerij Baranow: the desire to become a painter has always been in me
Feb 19, 2025
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5 minutes read
"I work mainly with oil and spatula technique, but also with the classic brush technique. As far as the topics go, it is mainly history, religion, current social issues, the meaning of life and now and again philosophical questions that I deal with artistically"...
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Bogdan Dide, the mystery of a woman's face
Nov 16, 2022
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3 minutes read
Bogdan Dide uses various techniques in his work, the choice of one or another depending on the goals set. The main theme is portraiture...
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Filppo Pietro Castrovinci, sculptures that aspire to perfection
Jun 1, 2022
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3 minutes read
Filppo Pietro Castrovinci creates complex sculptures with great naturalness. He began to create works using the forge technique and then experimented with welding, molding, polishing, brazing...
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Althea, the passion for acrylic
Jun 11, 2022
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4 minutes read
Althea is a self-taught painter, who started with the watercolor technique, then painted in oil and finally found her happiness with acrylic...
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Ibrahim Unal, I am a self-taught artist candidate
Mar 11, 2023
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5 minutes read
"My recent works mainly consist of drawings. I adapted a technique used by photographers to my works and I am trying to improve it".
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Jean-Humbert Savoldelli, the inspiration that comes from color
Sep 21, 2022
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6 minutes read
The painter Jean-Humbert Savoldelli firmly believes that the process of artistic creation responds to an almost vital need, in which the technique comes only after...
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Alex Loskutov, computer collages
Oct 5, 2022
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5 minutes read
Alex Loskutov's figurative investigation, belonging to the computer collage pointillism style, is distinguished by the unprecedented technique resulting from the "assemblage" of car license plates or music albums...
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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”
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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...
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Sergey Sovkov, Color as a reference point
Aug 28, 2022
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6 minutes read
Oil painting has always been the preferred technique of Sergey Sovkov, who, when creating each painting, always tries to improve it in order to find new creative expressions...
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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.
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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...
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Pierre-Louis Ferrer, the charm of light
May 4, 2022
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5 minutes read
The artistic work of Pierre-Louis Ferrer, based on infrared and ultraviolet photographic techniques, has as its main objective to offer an alternative vision of our environment, broadening the viewer's perception...
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Evelyn La Starza: painting is a necessity
Jun 25, 2024
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5 minutes read
"I studied art history in school but as an artist I am completely self-taught, I started experimenting with materials and techniques at a young age."...
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Lita Cabellut: A Visionary Artist Rooted in Tradition and Innovation
Jan 27, 2025
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6 minutes read
Lita Cabellut (born in 1961) is a Spanish artist known for her multidisciplinary approach. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she creates on a grand scale, employing a modern adaptation of the traditional fresco technique...
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Tomoya Nakano: my artworks materialize what I imagine
Apr 27, 2025
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4 minutes read
"Basically, my artworks materialize what I imagine, regardless of the subject matter. Also, I use a variety of techniques in my artworks, ranging from traditional oil painting to more modern approaches, depending on what I want to paint."
Art History
Between painting and drawing: the "borderline" art of marker, pastel, and ballpoint pen
May 21, 2024
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12 minutes read
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...