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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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In today’s art world, the impact of human touch is more powerful than ever. Following a wave of intangible triumphs in the early 2020s, including the debut of NFT art acquisitions, trends have more recently shifted toward the tactile. Join in as we explore these manually motivated artistic mediums popular in 2025.

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About to Get Shafted Again

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

The art market follows this trend: paintings depicting Native Americans as ignorant, bloodthirsty savages are much harder to sell than they were 30 years ago, and their fair market value has consequently decreased. The painting below was sold for $2,360,000 last month, a record for the artist. Howard Terpning (born 1927).

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Symbols of Love in Art, Antiques and Jewellery

Grays Antiques

Adapted by the Romans, Cupid is an ancient 'match-maker' famed for his enchanted arrows that induce love between mortals and even divine beings. Knots became a popular feature of jewellery in the 19th century thanks to Sailors, who were known to fashion intricate love knot designs using gold wire to give to their loved ones at home.

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How Investors Can Thrive in a Lopsided Art Market

McAllister Fossum Appraisal Services

But wealthy investors have bid up prices for works by a handful of Contemporary artists so high that it’s turning the heads of collectors of more modest means. Authorities on art investment worry that the budding romance could end quickly and badly. The market for fine art seems benign, even healthy, on the surface.

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The Shelf-Life of Evil

Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

Much of the advice I give now would have been the same then, such as the fact that you need to compare apples with apples: paintings of European subjects by artists who are commonly classed as Western artists bring a fraction of what their Western subjects bring. Can art ever be neutral? cavalryman. Should it be deaccessioned?

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New Frida Kahlo museum to open in Mexico City

The Art Newspaper

Exhibitions Step into Frida Kahlo’s ‘secret’ wardrobe Aimee Dawson Casa Roja shares a moniker similar to Casa Azul—Kahlo’s birthplace, which became a museum in 1958 through a trust established by her partner, the artist Diego Rivera. In a way, Frida staged her life as an artwork.”

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Plein Air Paintings: Capturing the Essence of Nature

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Before this technological breakthrough, artists would venture outdoors to sketch or paint in watercolors, capturing the essence of a scene before returning to their studios to create larger, more detailed oil paintings. What changed was as much a technical revolution as an artistic one. The invention of portable oil paints by John G.