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Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917, via Wikimedia Commons, [Right] Duchamp smoking in front of Fountain, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963
[Left] Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917, via Wikimedia Commons, [Right] Duchamp smoking in front of Fountain, Duchamp Retrospective, Pasadena Art Museum, 1963 | Image source: hammockmagazine.ge
Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades: Birth of 20th Century Conceptualism – Conceptual Art Series Part. 4
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. - Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp was one of the artists who challenged long-held beliefs about the art creation process and art itself. Duchamp was a successful painter in Paris in the years leading up to World War I. "I was interested in ideas — not just…
Our 10 Favorite Sculpture Parks From Around The World
Tony Cragg's sculpture, displayed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England (alh1 - Flickr/Creative Commons) | Image source: smithsonianmag.com
Our 10 Favorite Sculpture Parks From Around The World
As an exhibition in the open, accessible to everyone — sculpture parks are an irreplaceable part of the art world. There is a sculpture park in every country, and they serve an important role in introducing people to the world of art, whether that was intended or not. Moreover, in the current times — with…
Hilma af Klint: Pioneering the Spirit of Abstractions
Portrait by Hilma af Klint, around 1900, via The Guggenheim Museum, New York (left); with Adulthood by Hilma af Klint, 1907, via Coeur & Art (right) | Image source: thecollector.com
Hilma af Klint: Pioneering the Spirit of Abstractions
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is often cited as the father of abstract art. However, much earlier than he created his first abstractions, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), a Swedish artist, had already developed her own abstract compositions. More precisely, this happened by 1906 — several years before Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, or Kazimir Malevich; yet, they are…
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Frank Stella: In Pursuit of Ever-Evolving ExperimentationFrank 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…
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Art and Politics: Boundaries Where They Both LiveEver 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…
Peggy Guggenheim and her beloved Lhasas | Image source: viaggidiarchitettura.it
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Collector Extraordinaire: Peggy Guggenheim and 20th Century Art PatronageI 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…
ZENG FANZHI 曾梵志 "From 1830 Till Now No.4" (2014), oil on canvas | Image source: shanghartgallery.com
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The Master of Chinese Reinvention – Brilliant Art of Zeng FanzhiNot 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’s"Sleeping Muse" sold for $57.36 million at the Christie’s auction in New York in 2017 | Image source: positivenewsromania.com
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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 without…
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‘2018 ARTDEX Art Competition’ Winner AnnouncementOver 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…