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Wayne Thiebaud “Candies” 1965-1966, Oil on board | Image source: artsy.net
Wayne Thiebaud 100: Celebration Of Food And Life
I don’t like the term ‘artist.’ It is a term which I’m uncomfortable with, but I love the idea of being a cartoonist, a draftsman, a designer, a painter… – Wayne Thiebaud The three crucial things you need to know about Wayne Thiebaud are that:  His last name is pronounced TEE-boh,He does not like to be…
A snapshot of the Van Gogh Alive Exhibit, a traveling exhibition developed by Grande Exhibitions, SENSORY4™ — multi-channel motion graphics, cinema quality surround sound and HD projectors. | Image via: Van Gogh Alive. Image source: cleverishmagazine.com
How To Create A Virtual Art Gallery?
A virtual art gallery is not just a website that features images of artists’ creative work, but an interactive experience that can take many forms. Thanks to advancing technologies, along with consumer trends and radical changes in how art collections are curated, everything is pointing the way towards a wonderful digital future for all creatives. Artists should consider…
Gerhard Richter’s “Abstraktes Bild” | Image source: pinterest.com
The Benefits Of Abstract Art
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. – Ellen Key Everyone has seen abstractart. Everyone — from the everyday person to the amateur and professional painter to the renowned art critic — has their opinion on whether they like it or not, understand it or not.  Abstract art, in essence, can…
Art World
7 Controversial Artworks throughout History“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.” – Yoko Ono It’s been said that true art is created to evoke emotion, positive or not. And over the centuries, that is exactly what some art has accomplished. Let’s take a look at 7 of the most controversial artworks that have shocked, amused, puzzled…
Art World
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Quest for WrappingChristo began with his  wrappings in the late 1950s  when he would paint or wrap bottles and cans to oil barrels. By the summer of 1968, Christo and Jeanne-Claude gained international recognition with their 5,600 Cubicmeter Package, 60,277 sq ft inflated air package presented at the "Documenta IV" in Kassel, Germany. In a career that…
Art Market
Auction to Private Art Sales: Art Market Power ShiftThere has been a noteworthy power shift in high-end art market eco-system in the recent time. Auction house that has been an unshakable power base to headline-making top-end of the art market throughout the post-war era to the recent decades, no longer seems to be a flag bearer of the highly lucrative secondary art market.…
Art World
Story of Blue in Art“Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.” – Raoul Dufy, French Fauvist Painter (1877…
Art World
Isamu Noguchi and His Art During Japanese Internment Camp“For one with a background like myself, the question of identity is very uncertain. And I think it’s only in art that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all.” – Isamu Noguchi It’s been 75 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt would sign Executive Order 9066 which relocated and incarcerated…
Art Market, Art World
New Art World and Changing Concept of OwnershipOn February 7, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new policy known as Open Access, releasing large number of images of artworks from the museum’s 2 million collections  in the public domain freely available for unrestricted use. These art images represent “the main body of collections” according to the museum’s director Thomas P.…