We shouldn’t fear the fact that one day contemporary artists and their creations will become the legacy of the past. What we should do instead is praise those who put the effort into making the understanding of aesthetics wider and richer. Karolina Yakhnina is one such contemporary artist. She creates art at the intersection of different mediums that connect the past, present, and future.
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Today, we want to talk about the person whose passion for portrait painting allows him to use his knowledge in the most surprising ways. Michael Mirianashvili is an artist specializing in religious iconography and portraits. Let’s see how these two aesthetic forces coexist in his contemporary art.
JD Malat Gallery will host the debut solo exhibition by Harare-born artist Tega Tafadzwa on October 12. Titled “RWENDO – WHICH MEANS JOURNEY,” it will feature 15 new paintings exploring the stories of people who went through “marginalization” and had to cope with the challenges of so-called “othering.” The debut exhibition is curated in collaboration with Africa First and will be on view from October 12 to November 7 2022.
Art has unlimited potential when it comes to the mediums it can be expressed.
Sean Scully, aged 77, is one of the most influential and important artists of our time. Over more than 50 years of his career, the painter has developed his own easily-recognized style where he synthesizes abstract art and the passion of human nature. This is partly possible as a result of the war with Minimalism that Sean has been waging since the 1980s.
Academism, the art movement once influenced by the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, had a special place in art history. Let’s get back to basics and remind ourselves of the major artists of that period.
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.
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.