Category Archives: Artists
Leading European Art Gallery Plans Showroom In NYC
New York City wins again, being chosen as the home city of a new Hauser and Wirth contemporary art gallery. Hauser and Wirth already has prestigious showrooms in both London and Zurich, and their newest addition will be located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Slated to open in September, it is sure to draw a [...]
Culture And Art For Children: How Does It Change Their Perceptions?
Children are natural artists in a way, usually diving right into the finger paints and chalk with abandon, unafraid of what anyone will say about their finished masterpiece. They are future Picassos. They draw without fear, paint everything in sight, and believe that their painting deserves to hang in the front entry of the [...]
Tattoos Are Becoming Mainstream – But Are They Art?
Art employs many different canvases. Some artists use music, others write poetry, still others use paint on a variety of media to convey their image or story. Still others use the human body as their backdrop and draw their pictures with a needle and ink. Yes, these are tattoo artists, and their work is becoming [...]
Alternative Art, Or Just Graffiti?
Ordinarily, painting or drawing on walls, buildings, sidewalks, cars, trees, street signs, or just about anything else that isn’t a canvas or obvious art project would be considered inappropriate. Children are taught from the time they are young that they should color in their coloring books, draw on their paper, and paint on a canvas. [...]
Social Networking For Artists
Okay, so you have a great artistic product, be it music, photography, video footage of Bigfoot, etc. Now you need a way to let people know that you have these amazing artistic products that will enrich their lives, and of course you would really like to sell a few in order to pay your rent. [...]
New Exhibition At Hong Kong Museum Of Art
It appears that Louis Vuitton has done it again, only this time in Hong Kong, as the “Passion for Creation” exhibit is on display with the blessing of Hanry Tang, Chief Secretary for Administration. Within this collection there is deemed to be a connection between the worlds of art and commerce, depicted in the pieces [...]
Online Galleries: The Next Step For The Art World
The Vision Grove is definitely onto something! If you learned anything from art-actually.com, you realize that art is meant to be enjoyed, shared, spread around among communities and loved ones, and that is exactly what Vision Grove is all about. This is not a place to sell your artwork, as it is specifically designed to [...]
Learn More About Claude Monet
Claude Monet is one of the painters who doesn’t seem to get talked about as much as some others, but the works that he created are very beautiful in many cases, and they are important to the art world.
Monet was born in Paris but didn’t grow up there. When he was still a little [...]
Who Was Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was considered to be the greatest artist where the surrealist movement is concerned. He was a very eccentric individual, however, and had a lot to express with his art in paintings like The Great Masturbator and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
Not everyone understood what Dali was trying to say with his creations but [...]
The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Artist Vincent Van Gogh has many paintings that people would recognize on first sight, and others that people aren’t as familiar with but that are equally as beautiful. Two of his most popular creations are Starry Night and Sunflowers.
Most people have seen these paintings more than once, or at least seen representations of them. They [...]