The A-list Hollywood star Brad Pitt publicly debuted as a sculptor with his first works on view at the Sara Hilden Art Museum in Tampere, Finland. Neither did the actor attend the event, nor did he and the museum share any details about the success of the exhibition.
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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.
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.
What will happen if you mix two realities that bear different meanings and convey different forms? You might find the answer in the new series of double exposures “Merging Moments” by the Spanish photographer and artist William Josephs Radford.
On July 27, Lichtundfire, the art gallery in New York City, presented the art show “Flora and Fawna – Season of Growth and Beasts.” The exhibition features a series of artworks by a variety of dedicated artists. Among them is Vian Borchert, a celebrated painter who created floral landscape paintings profoundly inspired by her love for nature and literature.
Sonia Delaunay (Sarah Stern) was a Ukrainian-born French artist who is considered one of the most significant figures in 20th-century modern art. She was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor and became the first living female artist who had a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre.
On August 4, Nel, in collaboration with FORMS, will present a solo exhibit “God’s Away on Business” by the influential contemporary artist Robyn Penn. In her new series of works, the New Zealand painter explores the duality of the current state of global affairs with a focus on the people’s complex relationships with nature and the subtleties of human perception.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch-born British painter who became one of the most renowned artists of the historic genre of the Victorian era. Antique motifs had a great impact on his work. Most of Alma-Tadema’s paintings were devoted to historical, mythological, and biblical plots, depicting the culture and lifestyle of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt.