Art History
Art that celebrates beach life
Jun 8, 2022
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7 minutes read
It is surely impossible to list and describe all the many works, including painting, photography, and performance, that have immortalized beach life and, consequently, also the changes in the sea motions and customs of bathers over time. Nonetheless, John Constable's Brighton Beach (1824) and Edvard Munch's Man at the Bath (1916) are certainly noteworthy, though oftentimes little known...
Art News
Art Basel Miami beach, merchants and artists redoubled their efforts
Dec 3, 2021
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4 minutes read
A fair with a sense of urgency and newness: despite the pandemic's ongoing struggles, dealers and artists stepped up their efforts at Art Basel in Miami Beach. At the 2021 edition of America's tentpole contemporary art festival, there is a strong desire to acquire.
Art News
The crazy story of the two paintings of Van Gogh stolen by a drug baron
Aug 31, 2021
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4 minutes read
Raffaele Imperiale will be extradited to Italy from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He is believed to be a leader of the Amato–Pagano gang in the Camorra. The drug baron claims to have purchased Van Gogh paintings worth 20 millions EUR for their artistic value. He has been captured.
Artist Portraits
Elena Done: Painting for me is a natural occurrence
Dec 12, 2023
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9 minutes read
"What is painting for me? Painting for me is a natural occurrence. Painting for me is a preconceived ability. I started drawing from the age of 2-3, so drawing for me is a natural thing, and creating art is a seventh sense."...
Art News
Police in Brazil discover a stolen painting worth nearly €50 million under a bed
Aug 11, 2022
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3 minutes read
Artwork discovered during a police raid on the home of an alleged con artist involved in a heist based on bogus predictions of a phony clairvoyant.
Art News
Her artwork sold for $400 at the beach three years ago. Today they are selling at auction for up to $1.6 million
Jun 20, 2022
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4 minutes read
Breakthrough NYC artist, 27, fires agent who bought her work for $15,000 and sold it for $1.6 million a year later: Is now represented by 71-year-old famed dealer, who is also her lover and promises to "protect her from the big bad wolves."
Lifestyle
Discover original paintings and photos that sublime Ireland!
May 14, 2020
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2 minutes read
From Dublin to Connemara, from Londonderry to Cork, Ireland is an island with special colors.
Art News
A Florida art dealer admits that he sold fake Warhols
Feb 23, 2023
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3 minutes read
Court documents say that Daniel Elie Bouaziz, an art dealer in Palm Beach, pleaded guilty yesterday to selling a fake Andy Warhol painting.
Art History
Shall we sunbathe with Edward Hopper?
May 3, 2023
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9 minutes read
The invitation that resonates in my title will not surprise Edward Hopper aficionados, who will surely have noticed the accuracy by which the American master, by way of cinematic framing, skillfully arranges the light within his paintings...
Art History
Sacred palms, profane palms
Nov 7, 2023
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8 minutes read
Reality can be interpreted simply as it appears, or it can be transformed into something more meaningful, through, for example, an encounter with religious ideology...
Art History
Paul Gauguin
May 5, 2023
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14 minutes read
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French post-impressionist painter who is well-known for his use of bold colors, simplified forms, and his incorporation of themes from indigenous cultures in his work. He was born in Paris and worked as a stockbroker before devoting himself to painting...
Art News
House for sale for half a billion euros, with a ceiling signed by Caravaggio
Oct 25, 2021
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2 minutes read
Caravaggio adorned the Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, in around 1597.
Artist Portraits
Khanh The Bui: simple things bring me creative inspiration
Jan 2, 2024
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4 minutes read
"My artistic foundation is the lullabies of my mother and grandmother. There are two main themes in my art: Ha Long Bay natural heritage and the human body."
Art News
A Florida dealer has been charged with selling allegedly fake art by Basquiat and Warhol
Jun 1, 2022
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2 minutes read
Daniel Elie Bouaziz allegedly sold reproductions of artworks stamped with forged authenticity seals. He also sold forgeries of works by Banksy, Henri Matisse, Frederick Hundertwasser, Keith Haring, and others.
Art News
The art collection of Alain Delon is going to be sold at auction
Jun 1, 2023
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3 minutes read
The collection of the French star of "The Leopard" could bring as much as €5 million at Bonhams in Paris.
Art History
Art: shock news about dripping!
Mar 1, 2023
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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...
Art History
Are you a fan of the shower or the bathtub?
Aug 29, 2023
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9 minutes read
I imagine the opposite poles of the world idelely inhabited by species with conflicting views to say the least, for example, the one by life forms who love cats, while the other by those who side with dogs...
Artist Portraits
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".
Artist Portraits
Svetlana Iskoskikh, my parents encouraged my talent in every way
Jul 29, 2023
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5 minutes read
When I was in kindergarten I already knew that I would be an artist, all my free time I painted. My parents encouraged my talent in every way. The walls of my children's room were completely covered with my drawings...
Artist Portraits
Evelyne Sie, I have always loved to draw
Aug 12, 2023
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4 minutes read
I have always loved to draw, and that since my childhood. As a child, I drew the characters from "Mickey's newspaper" then, as a teenager, the models for perfume advertisements...
Art News
Views by Renoir of Guernsey will be exhibited together for the first time on the island
Apr 18, 2023
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4 minutes read
The show will start at the Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny and then move to the Candie Museum on the island of Guernsey.
Art History
The Yellow Christ (1889) by Paul Gauguin
May 5, 2023
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8 minutes read
The Yellow Christ is a painting by Paul Gauguin, completed in 1889. It is an oil on canvas measuring 91.1 x 73.2 cm, now in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
Artist Portraits
Kyrylo Bondarenko, experimental and social art
Feb 16, 2022
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3 minutes read
Kyrylo Bondarenko is an artist always ready to experiment, involved in multiple artistic projects at a time, sometimes made in order to help the most difficult situations that surround him...
Art History
Australian art: kangaroos, landscapes and contemporary artists
May 21, 2023
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8 minutes read
I thought I would entrust the narrative of the early years of Australian art, as well as its subsequent Europeanization, to the kangaroo, a symbolic animal of Oceania that will be used as a conduit between Aboriginal and Western figurative expression...
Artist Portraits
Robert Van Den Herik, constantly experimenting and learning
Sep 24, 2022
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10 minutes read
The combination of his innate tendency to approach things differently, to shift his perspective, his impulse to find out if something can work differently on the one hand, and his aesthetic sense on the other, have brought Robert Van Den Herik closer to design and art in general....
Artist Portraits
Sasha Sokolova, I’ve worked across various media
Jul 12, 2023
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7 minutes read
"My grandfather and the support of my family. Many artists don't have that and I was lucky to be born in artistic family"...
Art History
Pointillism in contemporary artistic language
Sep 28, 2022
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8 minutes read
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...
Art History
Art: two points of view on the Vietnam War
Feb 15, 2023
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9 minutes read
Jumping rich centuries of history and tradition, we come at once to externalize the viewpoint of one of the most celebrated artists of the Vietnamese twentieth century, namely Nguyen Phan Chanh, a pioneer of silk painting within his nation's artistic investigation, who, despite his training at the Ecole des Beaux-arts d'Indochine an institution founded at the time in French Indochina...
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
Artmajeur offers a reinterpretation of the key themes of Art Basel 2024
Jun 11, 2024
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13 minutes read
Artmajeur offers a reinterpretation of the key themes of Art Basel 2024 through the works of its artists. Once again, the concepts of ecology, intimacy, history and politics emerge as central fulcrums, offering new perspectives and interpretations that enrich the cultural dialogue established by the fair.
Artist Portraits
Esteban Vera, creativity as inspiration
May 3, 2023
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7 minutes read
"My inspiration has always been creativity. It is a characteristic I have had since I was very young. I try to be creative in everything I do, and this eventually was instrumental in inspiring me to create artwork in different branches and styles".
Art History
2023: like Alice in Wonderland...
Jan 22, 2023
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9 minutes read
In keeping with the most classic Disney quote, I refer to the image of Alice, who, lying comfortably on a meadow in the company of her cat, lets time pass lost in thought. At some point, as we all know, the maiden's attention is caught by a strangely elegant and hasty rabbit, who, erect on his two white paws is pining in order not to be late for who knows what ever appointment...
Art History
Hi Barbie, Hi Ken!
Jul 23, 2023
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8 minutes read
Avoiding dwelling at length on the ways in which advertisements have come to be part of our lives today, occupying them nefariously for almost every second, taking the most varied forms, it is good to reveal how man was once actually free to choose what he needed, simply by employing his brain...
Lifestyle
Exploring the Artistic Passions of Jay-Z and Beyoncé
Aug 28, 2023
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7 minutes read
With an estimated value reaching tens of millions of dollars, the art collection owned by the couple consists of artworks that have made a profound impact on the landscape of contemporary art. Moreover, their active support for emerging artists further contributes significant value to the art world.
Art History
The reflection of water in art: from mythology, to Impressionism, and Surrealism
Jan 11, 2023
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10 minutes read
"Here the boy, exhausted by the exertions of the hunt and the heat, came to lie down, attracted by the beauty of the place and the spring, but, as he tries to quench his thirst, another thirst arises: enraptured in posing to drink from the image he sees reflected, he falls in love with a chimera"...
Art History
Paul Strand
Jul 4, 2023
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17 minutes read
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an influential American photographer and filmmaker. He played a pivotal role, alongside notable modernist photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, in establishing photography as a recognized art form during the 20th century...