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Art Basel 2025: The Heart of the International Art Scene Returns to Basel

Art news • Apr 24, 2025 • 7 minutes read

From June 19 to 22, 2025, Basel will once again become the nerve center of the contemporary art world with Art Basel 2025, an event that brings together over 290 leading galleries and more than 4,000 artists from around the globe...

Jonathan Wateridge: Figuring the Unreal in Contemporary Life

Artist portraits • Apr 22, 2025 • 7 minutes read

Jonathan Wateridge, born in 1972, is a British artist known for his work in the Postwar and Contemporary painting scene. His art is currently on view at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, and his work has previously been showcased by leading galleries and institutions, including GRIMM in London...

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."...

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."...

Christopher Wool: Language, Abstraction, and the Raw Edge of Contemporary Art

Artist portraits • Apr 15, 2025 • 7 minutes read

Christopher Wool (born in 1955) is an American artist whose work, since the 1980s, has explored themes related to post-conceptualism...

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.

Julia Dogan: Art has always been my way of communicating

Artist portraits • Apr 1, 2025 • 21 minutes read

"Art has always been my way of communicating with the world—when words fall short, my paintings speak. I’ve experienced so much in life that demanded expression: moments of joy, pain, freedom, and longing. Every shift, every challenge, every moment of growth has added layers to my artistic voice."

Contemporary artist : 439 Articles

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