A truly grandiose event in the world of art, the Venice Biennale has finally announced the theme of its 2024 edition. On April 20, the Venice Biennale 2024 will open its doors to welcome international artists to showcase their unique artistic vision and perspective. Entitled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the festival’s new edition will be centered around the work of artists who have had first-hand experiences with this poignant subject.
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You don’t have to create a masterpiece to enjoy your creativity. You can just do it for the sake of it. Indeed, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s best pieces of advice was to spend an evening writing a poem, and then crumple it up and throw it in the trash. It’s the act of creation that’s sometimes most important, not the outcome.
Since the art world is very unpredictable, a lot of beginners either give up before even properly starting or quickly plunge into an art block. To remind you that you are not alone in your worries, let’s look at five toxic mindsets that all beginner artists are familiar with.
A retrospective exhibition of paintings by the artist Roman Aivazian, titled "The Invincible Sun," has successfully opened at the Tapan Museum in Moscow. The guests of the exhibition can enjoy bright canvases full of colors and sunlight, in which the artist expresses his emotions by using the “alla prima” method (direct painting approach), rethinking the world around him.
Today, we have proof that even famous painters did some pretty questionable things health-wise back in the day. Usage of toxic art materials is definitely on that list, so let’s investigate which ones our beloved artists might have used and what health complications it could have resulted in.
The space that is beginning to be filled with art, the atmosphere of reconstruction, and the history of hundreds of people working there before you — all of these things are appealing to artists, especially young ones. Powerhouse Environmental Arts Foundation acquired a new space just like that not too long ago.
Beautiful abstract paintings by Vian Borchert will transport you directly into that happy summer headspace. A new series that the artist created for the “Lemon Sky” exhibition is currently on view at Lichtundfire in New York. The show features works by several talented artists who were invited to share their variations of the main theme — the color yellow.
Do you like the color white? It is versatile and has a lot of different connotations depending on the culture. From wedding dresses to white shirts of office workers, in the Western world, white is associated with purity, cleanliness, emptiness, and minimalism. Abstract artists seem to have a unique relationship with this color. They are not afraid to overuse it, finding the beauty in color while divorced from physical objects.