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JULY 30, 2025

.–21.9.2025, Vallisaari Island Photo: HAM / Helsinki Biennial / Maija Toivanen It is always tricky for a green-themed Biennale to garner credibility, given the intrinsic environmental unfriendliness of any large-scale international art show designed to attract artists and visitors from across the globe. The shipping! The footfall!

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JULY 14, 2025

From Leonardo da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh ’s Starry Night, Michelangelo ’s David, Pablo Picasso ’s Guernica, and beyond, a handful of works of art remain vital, modern, and as immune to trends as ever. Great art often taps into this shared experience of what it means to be human. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

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JUNE 30, 2025

In February 2025, his son, the installation artist Amin Gulgee, opened a museum dedicated to his father in Ismail’s old house and studio, a bright, airy space in central Karachi, built by his friend, the architect Nayyar Ali Dada. My father was a very performative artist,” Amin says. “He

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JUNE 5, 2024

Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art. Where Les Nabis differ is in the subject matter.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

But what exactly is Modernism, and why and how has it impacted the world as we know it today? What is Modernism art and which artists embraced the movement? In this article, we explore the rich tapestry of Modernism and how this period championed a new order in artistic expression. What is Modernism in Art?

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Sarasota Antique Buyers

MARCH 22, 2024

A Look at Matisse’s Creative Process and Techniques Henri Matisse, a French artist known for his use of color, is widely recognized as a painter. He initially studied law in Paris but began painting in 1889 after his mother gave him art supplies. We buy antique bronzes of all variety and we buy antique sculptures.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The masterful art of intarsia has produced some awe-inspiring pieces of Renaissance craftsmanship, but these meticulously crafted ‘paintings’ in wood with a geometrical illusion of depth have not only earned papal recognition but also foreshadowed modern art forms like Cubism.

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JULY 12, 2019

Wang Shaojun is a Chinese sculptural artist based in Beijing, China. Born in 1958, he is now a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China’s most prestigious and well-known art university, and an artist. He began working in sculpture in 1980.

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MARCH 1, 2018

This exhibition revives the golden age of ocean travel, from ground-breaking engineering and fashionable interiors, to the lifestyle on board and their cultural impact on art, architecture, design and film. With over 250 objects including paintings, sculpture, ship models, fashion, photographs and posters.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Emerging from the 1917 revolution in the newly formed Soviet Union, Constructivism wasn’t only the most influential modern art movement in 20th century Russia, but its visualization of a new aesthetic language brought with it a sea change in how we view art that redefined the role of art in society.

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Grays Antiques

OCTOBER 6, 2018

I just bought an amazing collection of Eduardo Paolozzi sculptures. He was an extraordinary figure within British art. He was a Scottish artist of Italian heritage, who lived in Paris, and was established in Chelsea. In terms of stock, I’ve got a good selection, Master drawings, sculptures, oils, textile, and prints.

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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The climate is constantly changing, and art fads can be as short-lived as those of the world of fashion. After centuries in which art markets and art museums were dominated by white men, hitherto under-represented artists are now being aquired with a vengeance, particularly by institutions.

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JULY 12, 2019

A growing number of experts in the field are now encouraging a re- evaluation of the history of African art on its own terms by advocating for the voices of African artists to be heard above western interpreters.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Since his first gallery opened in the 1980s, Franklin Parrasch has maintained a dedication to furthering the careers of artists whose work defies any predetermined definitions of media or style and seeks to address existential questions through physical creation. What inspired you to pursue a career in visual art? Photo by Adam Reich.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

He ended up in the carpentry workshop, which served him well throughout his career, and was recognised for his skills in sculpture and design by Gropius, who became his lifelong mentor. Disappointed by the more traditional design teaching in Vienna, Breuer joined the Bauhaus in 1920.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Artist Richard Howard Hunt (1935-2023) was recognized as one of the foremost African-American abstract sculptors of the 20th century. Throughout his career, Hunt used modern methods and industrial materials to sculpt organic forms. Over his career, the celebrated Chicago artist won multiple prizes.

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JULY 10, 2024

As the 1940s came to a close, a number of artists were looking for something new. During the style’s second wave, artists including Helen Frankenthaler , Morris Louis , Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski also harnessed the spirit of non-figurative painting but embraced the idea of form as more important than any mythical content.

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MARCH 25, 2024

It was the spring of 1985, and seven women artists were still pissed. The previous summer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had held an exhibition entitled, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture” to inaugurate the museum’s newly renovated building. Only 13 were women. Only 13 were women.

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APRIL 14, 2024

Challenging traditional notions of artistic expression, Minimalism pushed the boundaries of what art can be – and its concentrated form of beauty would leave a lasting legacy. His vocabulary of visual art contained lines with simplified colors and shapes, which are evident in his Wall Structure Blue (1962) and his Wall Drawings.

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JULY 1, 2024

Upending the fine-art world, Collage and Assemblage subverted the very fabric of art, as artists like Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp elevated everyday items into high art, broke boundaries, and challenged traditional notions of what constitutes art, leaving an indelible print on the art world in their wake.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

When he was younger, Koppel studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Rancon in Paris, where he concentrated on drawing and sculpture. This training was reflected in his modernist work, which was very fluid and sculptural and quite unlike other types of jewelry produced by Georg Jensen until then.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In 1978, Roberta and I joined our friend Buzz Spector to found White Walls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists. One of the few publications dealing with word-and-image art, it soon began to attract submissions by some notable artists in the field. Artists in Residence) Gallery, the first cooperative gallery run by and for women.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 26, 2025

Each had been lined up for inclusion in the exhibition It Takes A Village at the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft (until 1 February 2026), focused on artists who, like Gill, worked in the Sussex village in the early 20th century. It has since been restored and was reinstated in April.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Warhols Volkswagen screenprint, from his Ads Series of 1985, is signed and numbered, with only 190 copies in totalplus a handful of artists proofs and trial prints, making it a rare find. This piece is a perfect example of how Warhols work transcends simple commercialism, taking everyday objects and turning them into timeless, valuable art.

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MAY 21, 2025

This ever-shifting lifestyle meant that all of nature became a sourcebook for their art, both for themes and materials. Core Themes in Inuit Art During these early generations of Inuit artistic production, core themes and styles of artistic expression emerged. Kenojuak Ashevak – Dogs See the Spirits.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This means modern and sophisticated designs with a focus on function, making them ideally suited to a nursery requiring furniture with a purpose. The Bauhaus art movement inspired artists to use their creativity to solve practical problems, and Anni Albers ’ transformative approach to textiles helped to weave the fabric of modern art.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Symbolic of the city’s creative re-birth, the exhibition was a declaration that beauty, elegance, and craftsmanship could define the modern world. Pavilion of Galeries Lafayette department store at Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de Paris en 1925 ( Wikimedia Commons ).

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MARCH 26, 2025

Mathematical expression has been a core element of art since its earliest days, with an enduring inspiration that some might suggest was divine. Sacred geometry has inspired artists and designers for generations, from the precise placement of ancient sanctuaries to the anatomical accuracies of Renaissance revolutionaries.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Emphasizing simplicity, clean lines, and the use of modern materials, the International Style was not only one of the most influential movements in modern architecture and design, but its aesthetic was also mirrored by revolutionary artists. International Style in Art Homage to the Square: Yellow Resonance.

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JULY 15, 2025

Abramović: © The Japan Art Association / The Sankei Shimbun: The celebrated performance artist Marina Abramović has received the 2025 Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture, while the leading figurative painter Peter Doig has won the award for painting. Both receive a 15 million yen (£77,000) honorarium.

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JUNE 30, 2025

When Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at her St Ives studio in 1975, Britain lost a remarkable artistic voice. The artist who put the hole in modern art and made it her signature helped shape the direction of 20th-century sculpture. The sculpture was called Pierced Form. Barbara Hepworth’s Studio in St.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the school manifesto, Gropius stat ed that “the Bauhaus strives to reunite arts and crafts – sculpture, painting, applied art, and handicrafts – as the permanent elements of a new architecture”. Albers was a German teacher and artist who came to study at the Bauhaus and soon became a master there himself.

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APRIL 28, 2025

What started from the homes and studios of a radical group of artists and designers in 1860s England would prize beauty above all else as they sought to escape the ugliness and materialism of the Industrial Age. For two decades the cult of Aestheticism bloomed with bright ostentation, as artists created a movement dedicated to pure beauty.

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APRIL 14, 2025

The founder of this artistic hive mind? German-American architect Walter Gropius the man who was intent on art being for the people, with technology and craftsmanship closely aligned. It was a cornucopia of art and craftsmanship. Wassily Kandinsky – Milieu jaune (Painted in Paris in March 1934).

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JULY 8, 2025

Lauder and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, 1996 © Gerhard Richter 2025 Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate a vast retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October-2 March 2026). Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S.

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