The contemporary art world is vast and continuing to grow. Knowing about contemporary art is knowing about an important and present part of art being made today. The contemporary art world is big and filled with more and more artists every day. Below is a list of some of the most famous contemporary artists who…
Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński was a photographer, sculptor, and painter. His alchemic process mixed emotions, free associations, and external factors to create a window into his imagination. Beksiński is widely regarded as the godfather of creepy sketches and twisted art which defies categorization. Beksiński’s paintings are frightful, macabre, and dystopian nightmares on canvas. …
Collage, a term coined by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, is a medium with its roots in the Dada era. The medium sprung to life out of a need to respond to the flood of media and propaganda of the First World War, and allowed artists to engage directly with newspaper articles, magazines, advertisements, and…
Vessels, or as we know them by, ceramics, have always been a staple for human existence, acting as functional objects to enhance living. Over the course of many a kiln firing, the functional aspects of ceramics have taken on other functions, so to say, those of art, beauty, and decoration; there has always been a…
Born Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann, he was a German artist who rejected the Expressionism movement in favor of the New Objectivity movement. This movement detested the emotional and romantic idealism of the Expressionists and instead, moved towards practicality in the world. In this article, we will learn more about Max Beckmann and his attempt to…
Eva Hesse’s career spanned only a single decade, but the influence of her art has far surpassed that, as her prolific oeuvre still looms largely over the post-Minimalist art scene. Looming large as a Post-Minimalist sculptor, Hesse innovated a huge amount of materials in her field, with her hard work and success opening up the…
At a time when the French cultural world was passionately focused on classical ideas of religion and mythology, Camille Pissarro’s focus on the average person was highly contentious and contributed to a rift in the art world. This rift came in the form of French impressionism, a movement driven by the stubbornness of Pissarro and…
Marisol Escobar was a well-known American sculptor recognized for her carved wooden sculptures, which frequently included photos and painted components. Marisol Escobar’s art was heavily inspired by pre-Columbian art, including clay and wood components while employing geometric abstraction. Escobar’s Pop art was world-renowned in the 1960s, and although her peak was short-lived, Marisol Escobar’s art…
Watercolor painting is definitely one of the first forms of painting that most people try out besides finger painting with those washable craft paints. Most kindergartens and primary schools have these colors as a staple because they are easy to manage. You might think that this makes it one of the easiest paints to work…
Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures are extremely unique, to say the least. No artist had ever made the space surrounding an item the focus of their work until Rachel Whiteread. Instead of putting a liquid, such as plastic, molten metal, or rubber, into a mold to create a reproduction of an existing piece, she created a plaster…
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