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Ferruccio Gard, a pioneer in Programmed and Kinetic Art since 1969, has globally influenced with vibrant canvases and innovative sculptures. Over five decades, he exhibited at Venice and Architecture Biennales and prestigious institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, showcasing mastery of color, geometric forms, and influential collaborations in neo-constructivist and kinetic art circles.

As we will illustrate later, according to the Chinese calendar, 2024 is the year of the dragon, a 12-month time span during which zodiac signs will be more or less benefited by the presence of this animal...

What's the color for 2024?

Jan 2, 2024

Before revealing the color of the year clearly, I'll provide you with some clues that will gradually lead us to the shade chosen as the 2024 Pantone color. To begin in this direction, there is a fruit that can introduce us to the hue chosen by this American company, and that is the peach, whose juicy nectar has also inspired great masterpieces in the history of art by masters such as....

The color red in Artmajeur photographs

Dec 9, 2023

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...

Kinetic Art, or Programmed Art, was born after World War II in concomitance with the decline of geometric abstraction. It is an artistic current whose purpose is to illustrate the study of the mechanisms of vision, aspiring to a rendering in pictorial and plastic terms of dynamism, optical phenomena and light...

How did Impressionism represent spring?

Mar 20, 2022

The landscapes of impressionists wanted to capture the changes of time, such as, for example, those brought by the succession of seasons, in order to maximize the natural and atmospheric peculiarities. Example of what we said can be the painting dedicated to springtime by Claude Monet, Springtime of 1886...

Piet Mondrian: for a correct interpretation

Dec 11, 2022

The interpretation of an abstract work of art is, for the viewer, more complex and less intuitive than its figurative counterpart, so much so that if we look at a portrait, thanks also to the information drawn from its title, it is possible to understand both the identity of the sitter and his or her relationship with the artist, which is often the reason behind the creation of the masterpiece itself...

Art: shock news about dripping!

Mar 1, 2023

9 minutes read

Placing this story within the history of the dripping technique, I begin, for the moment in an understandable way, by talking about Janel Sobel instead of Jackson Pollock, in order to illustrate the life and artistic journey of a painter, who, still under-appreciated, actually drastically changed the fortunes of the art world, as well as the abstract approach of the aforementioned and well-known American master...

The remake of Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

Nov 11, 2021

Las Meninas by Velázquez, a Spanish masterpiece from the seventeenth-century, which has been reinterpreted by many famous painters, including Goya and Picasso, is still an object of investigation by artists from all over the world, such as those in our collection.

The Difficult Distinction between Realism and Hyperrealism in Art

Jul 9, 2024

16 minutes read

What is one of the most difficult concepts to understand in the history of art? The answer, ladies and gentlemen, lies in the complicated and at times exasperating differentiation between Realism and Hyperrealism. But fear not! We will shed light on this artistic conundrum with examples provided to us by the talented artists of Artmajeur...

Egon Schiele's self-portraits: a figurative biography

Oct 19, 2022

Luigi Veronesi: An Exploration of Geometric Abstraction and Modern Art

Schiele's work fine-tuned an expressive approach marked by contorted figures and "sharp" brushstrokes that, extremely charged with emotional energy, still represent a powerful symbol of psychological, emotional and sexual expression...

Artist Portraits

Jul 30, 2024

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...

Masterpieces dressed in purple

Jun 7, 2023

There are three masterpieces in the history of art, placed between the pictorial and photographic worlds, aimed at immortalizing the same subject, staring confidently at the viewer, while wearing a detail, the coloring of which is the subject of the discussion at hand: purple...

The different histories of Expressionism

Aug 3, 2022

«Never was there an era more ravaged by despair, horror, death. Never has more sepulchral silence reigned over the world. Never has man been smaller. Never has he been more restless. Never has joy been more absent, and freedom more dead. And here is howling despair: man cries out for his soul, a single cry of anguish rises from our time. Art, too, screams in the darkness, calls for rescue, invokes the spirit: it is Expressionism».

Pointillism in contemporary artistic language

Sep 28, 2022

The peculiarities of pointillism are the fruit of the positivist climate of the late 19th century, which, indelibly marked by the prevailing idea of the triumph of progress, as well as the extreme faith in technique and science, came to charge with rationality even the art world, previously dominated by the "romanticism" of the Impressionists...

The Italian landscape in art history

Dec 17, 2021

Many famous works of art, executed between the Middle Ages and the 16th century, depicted the Italian landscape, just like the masterpieces of Giotto, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Antonello da Messina, Giorgione, Titian, Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci. Despite this, this pictorial genre has been configured independently, within the Western art, only from the seventeenth century...

Picasso: the Blue Period and the Rose Period compared

Sep 20, 2023

It is undisputed, Picasso is one of the best-known artists in the world, so much so that I refuse to even introduce him, in order to avoid obvious repetitions, which would turn the noses of the most knowledgeable art experts...

How do you distinguish sunrise from sunset?

Jul 19, 2023

I begin with a question that is little exploited, overlooked, and often taken for granted, both in general terms and within the analysis of many masterpieces of art history, where the titles of the works themselves often resolve dilemmas degrees...

Pop art that narrates the genre of the portrait

Oct 26, 2022

In order to narrate how Pop art interpreted portraiture, a genre with remote origins dating back even to ancient Egypt, it is possible to refer to the work of three iconic masters of the movement, namely Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton and Yayoi Kusama...

When people talk to us about Impressionism, generally, we are reminded of the image of the "typical" bearded and somewhat "clochard" French painter, who, intent on painting with his hands smeared with color, sheltering under a parasol or a hat, is ready to capture the changing seasons, lights, shadows and colors, times to manifest themselves on the same subject or multiple...

Superheroes in contemporary art

Jul 27, 2022

According to the most general definitions, a superhero is a costumed character, and one with a secret identity, belonging to the world of comic books, fiction, cartoons or movies, who, strong, courageous and extremely noble of spirit, unreservedly strives to protect humanity against evil, which he opposes thanks to his extraordinary abilities, namely superpowers...

The color silver in art: from Verrocchio to Jeff Koons

Nov 9, 2022

Taking a purely chromatic point of view, silver represents a shiny gray-metallic color, found in nature through the observation of silver fish, silver birch trees, and the metal from which it inherited its very name...

Very Peri is the color of the year 2022

Jan 2, 2022

Classify your works in the right style!

The Pantone Color Institute has declared Very Peri as the color of the year 2022! The most varied shades of this blue hue, infused with red and purple, have distinguished the colors of the main subjects, or details, of some masterpieces of art history...

Sell Art

Oct 17, 2022

Why is it important to categorize your paintings stylistically on Artmajeur? This is essential in order to make your work more visible for those who want to buy a specific point of view while facilitating the work of journalists and curators, interested in talking about works presenting specific stylistic characteristics.

Is it possible not to mention Degas's ballerinas?

Feb 26, 2023

9 minutes read

Having come to compulsively study the history of art, devouring books, online articles, manuals, treatises, etc., I ask myself the question of the "century": is it possible to talk about Degas without dwelling on the multi-discussed and illustrated ballerinas?...

Artists' love of brown

Oct 9, 2022

The presence of brown within the history of art boasts a very ancient tradition; in fact, umber, a natural clay pigment composed of iron oxide and manganese oxide, with which the aforementioned color was obtained, was used, both in prehistoric times, that is, in paintings dated 40,000 B.C., and in Upper Paleolithic art, well exemplified by the walls of the Lascaux cave, dating back some 17,300 years...

The line: basis of figurativism, meaning of abstractionism

Jun 11, 2023

Lady Gaga's Fusion of Music, Fashion, and Avant-Garde in Her Art Collection

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...

The color yellow "possesses a gently stimulating quality of serenity and gaiety. It shows itself extremely sensitive, however, producing an unpleasant image when dirty.... A slight and imperceptible movement is enough to make it the color of infamy, revulsion and discomfort..."

Lifestyle

Sep 18, 2023

Amaya F Fariza, an inner feeling

Lady Gaga is a renowned American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion icon, celebrated for her unique music and eccentric style. Lady Gaga also engages in art collecting, showcasing her enthusiasm for visual arts and her active participation in diverse forms of artistic expression.

Artist Portraits

Apr 26, 2023

13 minutes read

"It's an inner feeling. Every day I look at the things that surround me, the things that contemporary artists do, the landscape of my city, the people, the light... The grandeur that Nature offers, which the classics admired so much".

The Ten Artmajeur Photographers You Absolutely Can't Miss

Aug 16, 2024

13 minutes read

Let's discover together the Ten Artmajeur Photographers You Absolutely Can't Miss. On the occasion of International Photography Day, which is celebrated on August 19, let's explore together the extraordinary talents that have captured the attention of curators...

The sealed windows, the ceiling that becomes a source of light and the white walls are proposed within a space, the characteristics of which promote exclusion from the outside world, as the art, which takes disposition and life within it, must be left free to express itself, avoiding those distractions of forniture...

Lifestyle

Abstract art: a "must" for the home!

Feb 16, 2022

5 minutes read

Abstract art, a great protagonist of the contemporary art market, is perfect to decorate any environment, thanks to its indefinite, timeless, versatile, colorful and polysemantic charm, extremely meaningful and emotional...

Pollock's dripping in the artworks of Artmajeur's artists

Nov 19, 2021

Action Painting, an artistic form of Abstract Expressionism, has valued for the first time in the history of art the phase of creation of the works, that is, the creative act. The latter is highlighted because it represents the pure expression of the artist's psyche, emotions and vital energies. The "dripping" is a painting technique very dear to the Action Paintig, that Jackson Pollock did not invent, but perfected...

Top 10: emerging artists

Mar 19, 2023

13 minutes read

An emerging artist is usually defined as one who is in the early stages of his or her career, that is, still in the throes of refining his or her style, while beginning to gain some critical recognition, at the same time trying to develop a well-known commercial representation...

Traditional Chinese Landscapes

Jan 9, 2022