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Anish Kapoor – Leviathan, 2011, Grand Palais, Paris for Monumenta 2011 | Source: publicdelivery.org

What are the Different Types of Three Dimensional Art?

Three-dimensional art pieces, presented in the dimensions of height, width, and depth, occupy physical space and can be perceived from all sides and angles. On the other hand, two-dimensional works of art, which are created on flat surfaces, can only be observed in terms of height and width. Traditional types of three-dimensional media, like sculptures and…

Various Painting and Drawing Mediums and Techniques — Vincent Van Gogh’s oil on canvas, The Starry Night (Image: MoMA) | Source: crowdink.com

Various Painting and Drawing Mediums and Techniques

Painting has always been one of the most expressive art mediums that has allowed artists to experiment with different styles and techniques until they find their own unique artistic expression. Everything started in prehistoric times when people used pigmented powder to sketch scenes from everyday life on cave walls. We can say that these earlier…

What is Bio Art — Artwork by Suzanne Anker exhibited at the Everson Museum of Art | Source: cfileonline.org

What is Bio Art?

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof. - Ludwig van Beethoven One might think that art and science are incompatible. Indeed, they seem to be on the opposing ends of a scale - art is born out of creativity and abstract…

Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” (2006) following the artist’s recent recoating in Vantablack

Vanta is the New Black?Who owns the color red? That seems like an insane question—how can someone own a color?! Of course, lots of things seem crazy until people do them. Like Anish Kapoor, who now has exclusive ownership of the world’s blackest black. What Is The Blackest Black? Good question! It’s a carbon nanotube material developed by Surrey…

Georges-Pierre Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884), collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. | Image source: commons.wikimedia.org

Art: The Original Social Network Why do we make art? Plenty of folks have tried to answer that question over the course of human history. Freud, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant, Lacan, Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida—the roster of great thinkers who’ve tried to answer that question reads like a Greatest Hits list for philosophy students. For all those thousands and thousands of pages…

Credit: Igor Miske @igormiske on Unsplash

Discovering Artists, Artworks and Collections on ARTDEX Now that you’re an expert in creating collections and organizing your art it’s time to take a look at what other people are up to on ARTDEX! With just a few clicks, you can easily search for and discover new artists, artworks and collections that other users are sharing. To start log in to ARTDEX.…

Conceptual Art Archive ARTDEX

How To Archive Conceptual Art It’s relatively easy to archive a painting, a drawing, a photograph, or even a sculpture—you can just take a picture (or several pictures) and add it to your files. Maybe they’re old-fashioned paper records or maybe it’s a digital archive, but the image is the central component. When we’re talking about conceptual art, however, it…

Open book | Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Using a Bookmarklet to Add Art to ARTDEX While Browsing the Web Using ARTDEX’s Bookmarklet ARTDEX’s bookmarklet allows you to quickly and easily upload and catalog images of artwork you encounter while browsing the web. By using the bookmarklet you cut out the process of having to download and save the image on your hard drive before being able to upload it to ARTDEX. Here is…

The ARTDEX App is Now Live We've got great news for ARTDEX users, our App is live in the iTunes store. Now you can snap, catalog and share artwork on the go. Photographed some fun pieces at the Armory Show on your phone? Bought a new piece of art? Created the next masterpiece for your portfolio? Upload them to your collections…