On April 29, the world celebrates International Dance Day, established in 1982 by the International Dance Committee (CID) within the International Theatre Institute of UNESCO, to honor all forms and cultures of dance...
"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."...
"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."
Realism, rooted in the 19th century, depicts the human body in real and often harsh contexts, emphasizing social injustices, as seen in Daumier’s Rue Transnonain. In contrast, 20th-century Surrealism, influenced by Freud’s psychoanalysis, uses dreams and the unconscious to transform the human body into a symbol of desires and fears...
"I am a self-taught artist, so in the beginning, I had no knowledge of painting techniques. I was born in Yokohama, Japan, but since 1999, I have been living in Dalian, China."...
In contemporary art, the flower remains an inexhaustibly fascinating subject—a privileged vehicle for exploring the silent dialogue between realism and abstraction, a theme so dear to Georgia O’Keeffe. We have selected five floral works by artists featured on ArtMajeur, each capable of evoking—through stylistic or conceptual affinity—the refined visual universe of the American painter…
"I create all of my paintings purely from my imagination and completely intuitively as I paint. I have a general sense of the image I want to paint beforehand, but my main focus and thoughts as I paint, are more about the mood, atmosphere or the feeling I want to convey."...
"In a way, my destiny to become an artist was predetermined—I was born into a family of artists. The only question was which creative path I would take."
Looking at the works of Michelangelo, whether carved in marble or frescoed on ceilings and walls, what immediately strikes one is the extraordinary depiction of the human body: taut muscles, natural poses, veins, tendons, joints that seem to pulse under the marble skin...
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.
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