Pictorialist photography was an art movement that appeared in the 1880s and existed till the 1920s. Pictorialist photographers were inspired by the work of Pre-Raphaelites, impressionists, painters of the Barbizon school, and Austrian symbolists,...

Five months ago, on February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and started one of the biggest European wars since WWII. After the beginning of the escalation, the whole civilized world almost unanimously supported the Ukrainian nation and its...

If you look back at the history of art, you will notice that many revolutionizing and innovative things were met with severe skepticism. Vulgar, inappropriate, tasteless, irrelevant – those are the words that were proudly and ostentatiously...

SEMIRA, or Iryna Fedorenko, recently presented a new portrait of Johnny Depp, which she created after visiting his music concert on July 13 in Munich, Germany. The leading contemporary artist and now a war...

Did you know that the pen and ink technique became widespread during the Chinese Tang (618-906) and Song Dynasties (960-1279)? Back then, people used animal hair brushes dipped in colored or black ink. The Western World didn’t...

Have you ever heard something like this? “First, you have to complete formal education and earn a fine art degree” or “Artists are born, so you need to discover the talent as early as...