Ernesto Neto: In Pursuit of Sensorial Social Netting
Every once in a while, an artist comes along who isn’t afraid to push the envelope and allow their culture to strongly influence their work. Ernesto Neto, a renowned Brazilian artist, has long since wrapped his art around the hearts of many contemporary art connoisseurs and art lovers. Since the 1990s, Neto has received worldwide […]
How Performance Art Became Museum Collections
Performance art may not have been around as long as centuries-old traditional art disciplines have, but throughout its short history, performance art always succeeded at making waves as a critical avant-garde art movement throughout the 20th century. However, its position in the art world has changed significantly since its beginning. There are now concerted efforts […]
Exciting New World of Digital Art: 5 Great Digital Artists to Follow
It is not a well known fact that the genre of digital art has been around for decades. However, digital art has been evolving since the 1960s – it just wasn’t called ‘digital art’ back then. Over the years, people have referred to it as new media art, multimedia art, and computer art. Today, we […]
2019: The Year of Rembrandt
Today marks 350 years since Rembrandt’s death. In the remembrance of his celebrated artistic career, more than 400 Rembrandt masterpieces have come together for the exhibition, All the Rembrandts, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The historic exhibit will feature 22 paintings and 60 drawings, along with over 300 prints. Rembrandt is easily regarded as the […]
Is the Art World’s Gender Pay Gap Wider?
Historically, there’s always been an apparent imbalance in the art world when it comes to female representation. However, it’s only been in just the last few years that government agencies and professional researchers have studied just how deep the disparity is in everything from giving female artists a bigger platform to how much they earn […]
Historical Influence of African Art in the Modern Art Movement
In the early 1900s, the Parisian press had the public buzzing with exotic tales about the African kingdom. Exaggerated stories of savagery and cannibalism sparked a fascination for the land that the French were increasingly occupying. But with French colonies expanding throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the French learned more about the culture, discovering its beauty and […]
Ever-Renewing Power of Light Art: 9 Brilliant Light Artists You Need to Know
Light has come a long way in the art world. It was once an additional element overlooked in the background though has been evolving into a prominent art medium over the recent decades. Many art historians believe El Lissitzky Prounen Raum (Proun Room) (1923) is the first work of art to incorporate lighting elements while László Moholy-Nagy […]
Has the AI-Art Movement Arrived?
We know that there is a myriad of business applications for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning – from conversational interfaces to predicting software vulnerabilities to automation. We use AI more often than we realize. After all, we interact with our smartphones, access social media, use Google Maps, or call an Uber – all of […]
Bruce Nauman: The Art and Irony of Revealing Mystic Truths
I don’t like to think about being an influence. It’s embarrassing. – Bruce Nauman Unfortunately for American artist Bruce Nauman, that’s precisely what he’s become – world-renowned, multi-awarded…influential. Considered one of the most prominent artists to emerge in the 1960’s art scene, Nauman’s passion for art would not develop until he was in college. Growing […]
Art and Money Series Part. 2: Why It’s Complicated
“I always loved swimming pools, all the wiggly lines they make,” said David Hockney, the author of a painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” that set the record for a work by a living artist sold atauction. “If you photograph them (swimming pools), it freezes them whereas if you use paint, you […]
Andy Warhol’s Legacy and the Business of Art
November 12 – The Whitney Museum of American art opened the most significant Andy Warhol retrospective in almost 30 years. A fantastic opportunity for the new generation of Americans to get to know the work of one of the most iconic artists of the 20th century… well, at least for those who love art. “From […]
The Proliferation of Art Biennales and How It Affects Contemporary Art
Ever since the end of the 19th century, “Biennale” stands for a large international art exhibition held every two years. It showcases works of contemporary art that can’t be found anywhere in museums or underground, secretive art displays, or collections. The ancestor of all biennales is the one held in Venice, every second year since […]