Art History
The Artistic Map of Human Body
Apr 9, 2024
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10 minutes read
The brush soaked in flesh-colored paint, or the "colder" camera, are used to explore the human body in its fragments...
Art History
Robert Mapplethorpe
Jul 17, 2023
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17 minutes read
Robert Mapplethorpe was a renowned American photographer known for his provocative and controversial works that explored themes of sexuality, identity, and beauty. His photographs often challenged societal norms and pushed the boundaries of artistic expression.
Art News
Contemporary art enters the Vatican with an exhibition in the famous Apostolic Library
Nov 8, 2021
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2 minutes read
A Few Steps From the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Library Has Just Opened Its First Permanent Contemporary Art Exhibition. The Italian artist Pietro Ruffo's installation will be on display until the end of February 2022.
Pop Culture
In Please, Touch the Artwork, classic videogame designs collide with contemporary art
Feb 14, 2022
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5 minutes read
Please, Touch the Artwork is Thomas Waterzooi's debut game. Works as a hybrid of psychogeography and "zen" art puzzles. Draws inspiration from classic games like Snake and Pong for the art-focused gallery-puzzling experience
Art History
MOMA Masterpieces: Contemporary Interpretations
Feb 23, 2022
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7 minutes read
The iconic institution of New York's MOMA is home to such timeless works of art as Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and Jasper Johns' Flag. Such masterpieces continue to be a source of inspiration for contemporary artists around the world, who have re-interpreted them into original, modern, current and sometimes ironic pieces of art...
Art History
Social media and apps enter art...
Sep 2, 2023
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9 minutes read
Surely social media was not intended for the circulation of quality information, ready to promote the betterment of consciousness development, but each of us, free to act, could actually make an effort to spread and create something meaningful...
Art News
The Museum of the Future, Dubai's latest architectural marvel
Mar 2, 2022
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3 minutes read
At Dubai's newest architectural marvel, the Museum of the Future, take an elevator all the way 'into space.'
Artist Portraits
Johannes Vermeer
Apr 21, 2023
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16 minutes read
Johannes Vermeer is a 17th century Dutch painter, born in 1632 in Delft and died in 1675. He is best known for his scenes of everyday life, often depicting women in bright and calm interiors. Despite his short career and the small number of works he produced, Vermeer is today considered one of the most important and talented artists of the Dutch Golden Age.
Art News
The Big Frieze London Contemporary Art Mass is back and we're all excited!
Oct 14, 2021
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5 minutes read
Frieze London & Frieze Masters from October 13 to 17, 2021 in London. Check out the highlights of Frieze London 2021, which will return to Regent's Park with a focus on technology.
Artist Portraits
Albrecht Dürer
Apr 6, 2023
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14 minutes read
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a German Renaissance artist who marked the history of European art. He was an engraver, painter and art theorist, and his works influenced many artists. He is famous for his wood and copper engravings, as well as his paintings and drawings.
Lifestyle
Anderson Cooper: the obsession for art
Sep 28, 2023
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14 minutes read
Anderson Hays Cooper, born on June 3, 1967, is a prominent American broadcast journalist and political analyst who presently serves as the anchor for CNN's renowned news program...
Art History
Vanity: a pictorial genre
Jul 24, 2022
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6 minutes read
Vanity refers to a specific type of still life, which, through the inclusion of characteristic symbolic objects, such as, for example, skulls, hourglasses, and luxury goods, aims to remind the viewer, both of the inexorable passing of time, and the future advent of death, and, consequently, also of the futility of ephemeral earthly goods and pleasures...
Artist Portraits
Annabelle Amory: Art allowed me to exteriorize this nonconformism
Nov 20, 2023
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6 minutes read
"Since I was little, I have felt out of step with society, the norm and others. I don't have the same desires, the same codes, nor the same aspirations."...
Art History
The history of Dutch art: from the Golden centu to contemporary times
Sep 7, 2022
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7 minutes read
The appellation Golden Age denotes that particular period of Dutch history, which, located between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, i.e., subsequent to the achievement of political autonomy, was marked by a formidable development of science and commerce, to say the least. In this context, the figurative arts, which must necessarily have been affected by, and consequently reflected, this florid climate, flourished to an extraordinary degree...
Art History
Route 66: the legend told by art
May 15, 2022
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7 minutes read
Artworks by Artmajeur's artists, created through multiple viewpoints and techniques, such as oil on canvas, digital photomontage and photography, take us on a tour of some of Route 66's most iconic places, such as the Cadillac Ranch installation in Amarillo (Texas), the Palo duro canyon (Texas), the town of Seligman (Arizona), the Wigwam Motel (Arizona), the Mojave desert (California) and the Santa Monica pier (California)...
Art History
How do you tell a story with a happy ending?
Mar 15, 2023
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8 minutes read
A nineteenth-century cultural, literary and artistic movement, which, revealed only later in its identity, will illustrate to us, through some of its masterpieces, the metaphor of life in which each of us has stumbled, aimed at taking on the guise of a figurative tale, intent on facing the darkness of temptation and the limitations of vanitas...
Art History
The Italian landscape in art history
Dec 17, 2021
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7 minutes read
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...
Artist Portraits
Jean Turco, the art of sharing pleasure
Sep 7, 2022
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8 minutes read
Jean Turco's idea has always been to share the pleasure he felt in seeing one or other of the things that present themselves to our gaze, either as they really are when the light puts them in value, either in the way I see them, to take them out of context to make images that illustrate an idea, a smile or a message to a muse, a friend, a collector or a simple stranger...
Art History
Graffiti: history, vocabulary, and pioneers
Oct 21, 2023
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8 minutes read
Before we begin with the presentation of some pioneers of graffiti, I would like to take you back to the "school desks" again...
Art History
How do artists view the Eiffel Tower?
Dec 5, 2023
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8 minutes read
When you arrive in Paris, it's impossible not to think about taking a photo with the Eiffel Tower or capturing the mixed impression of joy, excitement, and amazement, ready to manifest in a carefully composed and solitary selfie that forever immortalizes us in front of this metallic sculpture completed in 1889...
Art News
NOMA faces heated controversy over hiring white woman
Jul 4, 2023
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3 minutes read
The New Orleans Art Museum is facing a heated controversy over the hiring of a white woman as curator of African art.
Pop Culture
Raku Inoue's Botanical Assemblages create Dinosaurs in Layers of Leaf
Jul 12, 2022
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1 minutes read
Japanese artist Raku Inoue creates miniature sculptures of dinosaurs by layering kiwi vines, white spruce, and boxelder maple. The leaves' ribbed, veiny textures evoke the reptile skin of some of the Jurassic Park film's most well-known characters.
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What exactly is Interactive NFT 2.0? New Next Generation NFT Trend Breakthrough
Jun 6, 2022
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9 minutes read
Interactive NFT is a relatively new concept that is still expanding, as is virtual reality technology, which promises to level the playing field for producers. A world like "Oasis" in the movie "Ready Player One" or "Digimon" may be closer to reality than we realize, and Interactive NFT will play a key role in this evolution.
Art History
3 ways to travel with paintings
Aug 9, 2023
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8 minutes read
We are at the beginning of August and the cities are finally emptying out, people are saying their goodbyes and postponing their talk until September...
Art News
Coachella 2023, an edition rich in artistic installations
Apr 20, 2023
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2 minutes read
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has shown off four large-scale art pieces to bring color, light, and different perspectives to the charged atmosphere. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023 is a "phantosmagoric spectacle that plays with your perception and pulls you away from reality".
Lifestyle
Juan Yarur: the youngest member of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee
Jan 2, 2024
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12 minutes read
A patron of South American art, Juan Yarur has a strong affinity for Chilean art. His extensive collection comprises over 450 pieces, divided into 50% Chilean artworks, 25% Latin American artists, and 25% global artists...
Art History
Leonardo da Vinci
May 30, 2023
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24 minutes read
Leonardo da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, and passing away on May 2, 1519, was an extraordinary Italian polymath of the High Renaissance...
Artist Portraits
Man Ray, the visionary artist who revolutionized photography
Jul 11, 2023
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13 minutes read
Man Ray, visionary artist of the 20th century, marked the history of art with his innovative approach to photography and his contribution to surrealist aesthetics, pushing the limits of artistic creativity.
Art History
Paul Klee
Mar 28, 2023
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15 minutes read
Klee was known for his pioneering use of color, which he used to express emotion and mood within his compositions. He was particularly interested in the properties of color and its ability to create harmony and balance within a work of art...
Art News
"Several million euros" worth of Celtic gold coins were stolen from a German museum
Nov 25, 2022
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2 minutes read
In Manching, Bavaria, a heist in which phone and internet connections were "cut off" led to the theft of coins from the third century.
Art News
Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is reinterpreted in digital format for a new exhibition in Madrid
Oct 19, 2021
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5 minutes read
Adaptations of Triptych from the twenty-first century address issues such as consumerism, sex, and the environment
Artist Portraits
The Rhythms of Modernity: Piet Mondrian's Artistic Evolution
Jun 26, 2024
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16 minutes read
Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter, is best known for his pioneering role in abstract art. His work is characterized by a reduction of form and color, focusing on straight lines, geometric shapes, and primary colors...
Art News
Gaudí's iconic Casa Batlló in NFT by Refik Anadol sold for $1.38 million at Christie's
May 13, 2022
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2 minutes read
Casa Batlló is the first UNESCO World Heritage site to be reinterpreted as an NFT. Real-time environmental data were collected from sensors placed throughout the site.
Art News
Archie Moore's Australian Pavilion wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
Apr 22, 2024
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3 minutes read
Archie Moore from Australia has clinched the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Foreigners Everywhere, April 20 - November 24)...
Invest in Art
4 promising painters: An analysis for art investors
Mar 19, 2024
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10 minutes read
Discovering the vast collection of artworks on Artmajeur is a fascinating experience, an endless journey through the countless facets of human creativity. But it's easy to get lost in this wealth of talent, isn't it? ...
Art History
Starry night by Vincent van Gogh
Jun 15, 2023
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18 minutes read
In the nocturnal setting of a countryside, Vincent van Gogh depicts a captivating scene. The houses come to life with illuminated windows, while a crescent moon casts its gentle glow upon an otherworldly sky filled with mesmerizing swirls.