Frank Stella: In Pursuit of Ever-Evolving Experimentation
Frank Stella has always been a jazz fan. His earlier work was positively influenced by jazz music which was visible in his paintings and all that peculiar dynamics. Similarly to jazz patterns, when rhythm goes syncopated beats, the composition in Stella’s 1964 work “Hyena Stomp” may seem a little twisted. And yet beautifully off-beat. It […]
Art and Politics: Boundaries Where They Both Live
Ever since Plato and Aristotle, the act of artistic creation became inseparable from the idea of the real world. Employing common sense as one of the main tools of a variety of aesthetic observation only seems logical as every art is political, given it takes place in society we live in. It influences or is […]
Collector Extraordinaire: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th Century Art Patronage
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. “Had her private life been less colorful, would what she did for art seem less interesting?“ Anton Gill, the biographer of Peggy Guggenheim, asked this question […]
The Master of Chinese Reinvention – Brilliant Art of Zeng Fanzhi
Not often do we get to be in the presence of majestic introspection beautifully communicated through color, shape, line, and idea on canvas, but when we do, it’s usually spelled: Zeng Fanzhi. What we used to (and still do) admire about Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other great contemporary painters in the context of […]
Constantin Brancusi: Patriarch of Modern Sculpture
“I pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of objects in their own intrinsic nature.” ― Constantin Brancusi It takes fifteen seconds for the rosaries to get used to the dark and make sense of the elusive shapes they make of it; it takes a lifetime to understand Brancusi’s sculpture in all its magnificence […]
‘2018 ARTDEX Art Competition’ Winner Announcement
Over the past few months, ARTDEX has received numerous brilliant artwork submissions from talented worldwide artists attending our Inaugural Art Competition. We would like to thank you for your continuing contribution and daily endeavor to inspire the global art community. We are honored to announce the six artists selected from our esteemed jurors. Each winner […]
The Female Gaze: Celebrating Female Photographers
1839 is the date generally accepted as the birth year of photography. And in the same year, Constance Fox Talbot was believed to be the first woman ever to take a photograph. A century forward since then, more and more women have been captivated by photography, proving that for many brilliant and creative minds, it […]
The Myth and Genius of Jackson Pollock
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.” – Jackson Pollock Jackson Pollock’s painting technique was far from conventional. Not only were his canvases typically laying on […]
The Art of Egon Schiele: Angst, Frustration, and Intellectual Hysteria
From portraits of naked bodies twisted in often uncomfortable positions to disturbing self-portraits, Austrian painter Egon Schiele is remembered for his work that exuded raw sexuality, anguish, and narcissism. Born in 1890 in Tulin, Lower Austria, Schiele grew up a shy, strange child who did poorly in school and exhibited troubling behavior at home due […]
Why We Love Frida Kahlo
In 1954, self-taught Mexican artist Frida Kahlo died at the age of 47. But despite her short life, hundreds of admirers mourned and stood in the rain outside the Panteón Civil de Dolores where her funeral ceremony was held just before she was cremated. Why did so many love Frida? Because Frida loved Frida. Frida’s […]
Chaim Soutine, the Master of Still-Life and Flesh
Carcass of Beef Fish, Pepper, Onions Hanging Turkey These are just a few of the names Chaim Soutine’s works of art. And if you’re hearing them for the first time, you probably think Soutine is a master chef of sorts. However, Soutine was no culinary genius; he was, however, the Expressionist artist who would go […]
Who is David Lynch?
Filmmaker. Screenwriter. Director. Painter. Actor. Musician. Photographer. Sound designer. Producer. Wouldn’t the better question be, what isn’t David Lynch? In 1946, David Lynch was born into a middle-class family in Montana; however, he moved around quite a lot as a child because of his father’s job as a research scientist. Before moving to Los Angeles […]