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International Dance Day Celebrated with 5 Masterpieces of Ancient Art

Art history • Apr 28, 2025 • 9 minutes read
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...

Jerome Labrunerie:

Artist portraits • Apr 28, 2025 • 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."...

Tomoya Nakano: my artworks materialize what I imagine

Artist portraits • Apr 27, 2025 • 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."

Realism and Surrealism: The Human Being Between Reality and Dream

Art history • Apr 22, 2025 • 7 minutes read
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...

Misako Chida: I think each artist is one-of-a-kind

Artist portraits • Apr 22, 2025 • 7 minutes read
"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."...

5 Contemporary Works in Tribute to the Language of Georgia O’Keeffe

Apr 15, 2025 • 7 minutes read
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…

Roger Quesnel: I was always a bit of a daydreamer

Artist portraits • Apr 15, 2025 • 8 minutes read
"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."...

Bo Kravchenko: I was born into a family of artists

Artist portraits • Apr 8, 2025 • 6 minutes read
"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."

The human body in Italian art after Michelangelo

Art history • Apr 8, 2025 • 7 minutes read
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...

The Typical Subjects of Flemish Art Today: Still Lifes, Interiors, and Genre Scenes

Art history • Apr 1, 2025 • 7 minutes read
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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