If you like watching movies and series, you probably know that artists are often portrayed as people who are always busy. While it is a popular stereotype, the lives of professional artists are indeed under lock and key. If you are an artist or you are interested in what painters, printmakers, and sculptors do in their free time, the following facts are for you.
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How often do you see artists combining collage art and painting? These two forms of visual expression are perfectly compatible, but not many make an attempt to mix them in work. Such a fusion requires a fine sense of aesthetics and can be risky if not applied right. Today, you have a chance to look at a new series of cityscape paintings by Vian Borchert.
Are you used to getting aesthetic pleasure and excitement from artworks? However, the world of painting can both surprise and frighten. For centuries, grand artists have created extraordinary images that make viewers' hair stand on end. If you like Munch's "The Scream" or Bosch's masterpieces, this blog post is for you. Here is a compilation of the 5 creepiest paintings of all time. Are you ready?
The Palm Beach Show, one of the most visited art events in Florida, will return to the Palm Beach County Convention Center on February 17-22. Fine Art Shippers, an NYC-based art logistics company, has just announced that it will become the onsite shipper at the exhibition, which seems like successful cooperation. What do you need to know about the upcoming exhibition?
If you wonder whether your favorite celebs are adepts of some art movement, you should take a look at the list of famous celebrities who have a hand in visual art.
People who sometimes hear about the vibrant life of the contemporary world of art may often encounter the phrases “art dealers” and “art brokers.” These are basically the same terms, but their meaning is confusing or unknown for people foreign to art. So, who is called an art dealer, and what is the function of such a person nowadays?
Johannes Vermeer’s most iconic painting, “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” has justifiably become an object of scrupulous attention in modern and contemporary art. On our blog, you can learn some facts about this piece of classical art!
In ancient Egypt and Byzantium, painters were so keen on the idea of flat figures that they refused to use linear perspective when Filippo Brunelleschi demonstrated its effects in 1413. In this sense, Renaissance art became a truly magnificent period in the history of art. Thanks to artists of that time, now we can enjoy three-dimensional objects in pictures and not even shapes. Let’s define it.