Art in interior design is like Venus in “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli – the center of attention. Let's take a look at why and how artworks are used in home décor nowadays.
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Leonardo da Vinci is an iconic artist, but he is hardly the most prolific one when it comes to painting. Throughout his whole life, he created less than 20 paintings, with several of them being unfinished. Today, we want to focus on the unfinished paintings that were left incomplete by the famous polymath of the High Renaissance.
Having your own gallery where you are the one who decides whose works are going to be exhibited in it is a dream of many people. We want to shed light on how to start an art gallery nowadays, what steps are required, and what difficulties await would-be entrepreneurs ahead.
Allegory paintings, which were popular from the Renaissance period to the mid-19th century, embodied abstract concepts such as death or age.
In the mid-19th century, there was a man whose fascination with the real world was so deep and intense that romanticized art could hardly satisfy his tastes. Gustave Courbet, “proudest and most arrogant in France,” as he called himself, opposed the French Academy and became one of the founding fathers of Realism.
Painting now requires much less effort from the artist than several centuries ago. The difference between art materials became a decisive factor that affected the process of work creation. Van Eyck’s innovation in the 15th century and the new principle of paint storage, which appeared in the second part of the 19th century, changed the course of art history forever.
Every time you go to enjoy a gallery exhibition or art fair, you have a chance to meet people of different social cultures. To learn more about common types of people’s temperaments, we have compiled a list of the most frequently met art lovers in the modern art world.
Jeff Koons is one of the most renowned artists of popular culture. But what are art characteristics distinguishing the work of Jeff Koons? Why are his artworks so popular, and how does the artist achieve the “wow effect”?