Many paintings are marketed as genuine representations of the Renaissance era, but it’s not always so. While the Renaissance is the historical period spanning roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, it is understood pretty narrowly in artwork. So, which is characteristic of Renaissance art? Here are a couple of distinctive features that will help you recognize typical representatives of the Renaissance among the abundance of artwork in the market.

There are only a handful of contemporary American artists as broadly known and as highly appreciated as Jean-Michel Basquiat. His signature style brought him fame as an “outsider artist” who undermined the existing conventions of expressionism and won the hearts of art connoisseurs with bold, unapologetic art pieces. So, what’s behind Basquiat’s neo-expressionism, and what made the artist so wildly famous in the international art community?

Chilean art is gaining prominence in the contemporary art scene, with more and more creatives expanding their visibility in international museums, galleries, and fairs. Here is a quick introduction to Chilean artists that every avid contemporary art collector should know.

Every contemporary artist has an easily recognizable signature style and distinctive visual elements, and the famous Colombian artist Fernando Botero is one of them. The creative, who died in 2023 after many decades of fruitful work, acquired worldwide fame for his iconic images of exaggerated, voluminous forms – this manner is referred to as Boterismo. The present-day artistic community knows Botero animals and oversized people as the artist’s trademark style.