Art History
The history of Portuguese art: from its origins to contemporary times
Jul 10, 2022
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7 minutes read
The history of Portuguese art represents a narrative that harks back to multiple cultures and influences; in fact, primarily responsible for the birth, and establishment, of sculpture and painting in this country were the French and Dutch artistic traditions, as well as Spanish and Italian...
Art History
Lisbon: the city's history illustrated by art
Aug 10, 2022
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8 minutes read
Lisbon, Portugal's most important and largest city, situated on seven hills at the mouth of the Tagus River and facing the Atlantic Ocean, has more than 500,000 inhabitants, as well as a history that can be traced back, approximately, as far as 300,000 years ago. In fact, the westernmost capital of continental Europe turns out to be one of the oldest cities in the world, so much so that it would have even been founded by Ulysses...
Art History
The Art of Sukkot and its Cultural Evolution
Apr 18, 2024
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7 minutes read
Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is a tradition-rich Jewish celebration, where temporary sukkahs and the four species symbolize dependence on and gratitude to God for protection and harvests. Sukkot art, through illustrations, installations and digital works, serves not only to educate but also to strengthen cultural identity by interpreting these ancestral themes in a modern and inclusive way.
Art History
Orange in art
Jul 20, 2022
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7 minutes read
The colour orange has been present in art history since the earliest civilisations. In fact, in ancient Egypt, artists used to use an orange mineral pigment, called realgar, for tomb paintings...
Art History
The rise of Latin American art.
Jun 19, 2022
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7 minutes read
The contemporary reality, marked strongly by the growth of the population of "Latinos" in the United States, has resulted in a significant increase in attention, and interest, in Latin American music genres, literature, and art. Indeed, South American artistic traditions have become increasingly well-known and accessible, as they are oftentimes promoted and enhanced by cultural institutions and art museums around the world...
Art History
Women of art
Jun 1, 2022
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7 minutes read
Unfortunately, our art historical past has often eclipsed, omitted and concealed the importance, and weight, exerted by the "fairer sex" within it. In this context, it seems necessary to bring to light, and thus to memory, the work of women in the art world, with the purpose of making it finally, or further, visible and recognized...
Art News
Major art facility and residence program has opened in the Angolan capital of Luanda
Nov 5, 2021
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4 minutes read
The Nesr Art Foundation intends to counter under-representation of African art. Angola hosted a pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time in 2013, but infrastructure for artists remains scant. The foundation will provide studio and living space for eight artists per year, working in pairs, in four sessions lasting three months each.
Artist Portraits
Maria Susarenko, works that take you on a journey
Nov 10, 2021
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1 minutes read
Maria Susarenko, with her infinite number of meticulous lines in black ink, gives the impression of traveling through the work. When it cannot be satisfied with a contour line, it fills, enriches, precise, in a technical and meticulous work of goldsmith.
Artist Portraits
Carla Sá Fernandes, colorful and spontaneous paintings
Nov 3, 2021
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1 minutes read
Carla Sa Fernandes is an artist who affirms an obvious taste for light, colors, warm and sunny.
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 History
Naïve art explained by the "beasts" of Henri Rousseau and Antonio Ligabue
Dec 14, 2022
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9 minutes read
Naïf art, an artistic production, which, precisely because it is created by people without academic training, is often underestimated in its peculiar crude and instinctive approach to materials, composition and ideas, characteristics that have given this type of artists the appellation of primitivists, ingenuous or faux ingenuous...
Artist Portraits
Georges Braque: Between Cubism and Innovation
Jul 4, 2024
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13 minutes read
Georges Braque is universally acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of Cubism, a movement that revolutionized painting and sculpture in the 20th century...
Artist Portraits
Carlos Rodrigues, stone as the main means of expression
Jan 16, 2022
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6 minutes read
In Carlos Rodrigues' sculptures, which aim to capture beauty, the artist leaves in stone the signs of its natural texture and the "wounds" of its extraction processes ...
Art History
In the mirror: African sculpture of yesterday and today
Apr 12, 2023
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8 minutes read
Pursuing the aim of finding, within the art of today, the reminiscences, hints and allusions to the works of times past, creating also a kind of romantic tale aimed at celebrating the immutable essence of the human being, I wanted to reconstruct a "figurative bridge"...
Art History
New interpretations of Berlin's most iconic graffiti
Jan 29, 2023
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9 minutes read
Assuming that Berlin, since the era after the fall of the wall, has become one of the most important capitals of world street art, it is important to highlight how, within the most disparate neighborhoods of the German city, the works of famous artists, such as, to give an example, Herakut, Rosco, Dr. Drax...
Art History
Brassaï
Jul 12, 2023
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13 minutes read
Brassaï, born Gyula Halász on September 9, 1899, and passed away on July 8, 1984, was a photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker...
Art History
Decoding “Strangers Everywhere”: Artmajeur artists interpret the themes of the Venice Biennale 2024
May 14, 2024
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15 minutes read
Artmajeur artists creatively engage with the themes of the Venice Biennale 2024, representing art movements as diverse as Outsider Art, Queer Art, Folk Art, and narratives against racism...
Art History
Top 10: emerging artists
Mar 19, 2023
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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...