Category Archives: Art

Look back of Art Paris Art Fair 2022, France

Art Paris 2022, a art fair that confirm Paris’ unique dynamic and its place in the world contemporary art market, last from 7-10 April at the Grand Palais Ephémère on the Champ-de-Mars. The 2022 edition of very high calibre that reflects the growing momentum of this major spring event for…

Look back of Art Paris Art Fair 2022, France

Guide Tour of Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

The National School of Fine Arts of Paris is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. Beaux-Arts de Paris, descendant of the Royal Academies of Painting and Sculpture, is both a…

Guide Tour of Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

Look back of Art Capital 2022, Paris, France

As a large fair which to discover or rediscover talented artists, Art Capital with its new edition last from February 16 to 20, 2022 at the Temporary Grand Palais Éphémère. Art Capital is the yearly unmissable gathering for artists and talents in France. It enables to 2,000 artists to display…

Look back of Art Capital 2022, Paris, France

Look back of Art Paris Art Fair 2021, France

Art Paris 2021, as the first art fair to be held in the world after lockdown restrictions were lifted, last from 9 to 12 September 2021, at the Grand Palais Éphémère on the Champ-de-Mars. This new edition promises to be a wonderful breath of fresh air, a moment full of…

Look back of Art Paris Art Fair 2021, France

Review of Salon d’Automne Paris 2021, France

The Salon d’Automne Paris 2021, as a historic fair is part of the dynamic momentum of a new cultural autumn, returns from October 28 to 31. Every year, the Salon d’Automne organizes in Paris a major annual meeting which highlights several hundred works of art in all disciplines. An internationally…

Review of Salon d’Automne Paris 2021, France

Public art of Barcelona, Spain

Public art in Barcelona is a designated group of monuments and outdoor sculptures in the city. Barcelona’s cultural legacy is immense. The city has a past closely linked to cultural and artistic production that has served as an inspiration to present-day generations. In addition to the architecture and a network…

Public art of Barcelona, Spain

Modern and contemporary art of Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona’s cultural legacy is immense. The city has a past closely linked to cultural and artistic production that has served as an inspiration to present-day generations. The 20th century was a time of profound social, political, economic, technological and cultural transformations. Catalonia lived through the dramatic events of the Spanish…

Modern and contemporary art of Barcelona, Spain

Hall of Columns, Montemartini power plant

This large hall takes its name from the numerous pillars of reinforced cement which once supported the three boilers in the Boiler Hall on the floor above. Several hoppers are also visible in the ceiling, similar to the truncated-pyramidical funnels, which were filled with the cinders from the coal used…

Hall of Columns, Montemartini power plant

Gradation art

Gradation in art is a visual technique of gradually transitioning from one colour hue to another, or from one shade to another, or one texture to another. Space, distance, atmosphere, volume, and curved or rounded forms are some of the visual effects created with gradation. Artists use a variety of…

Gradation art

Froissage

Froissage is a method of collage developed by Czech artist Ladislav Novák in which the lines made by crumpling up a piece of paper are used to create a drawing. One major exponent of the art of froissage is Jiří Kolář. Froissage is a unique art in which the contours…

Froissage

Flipped image

A flipped image or reversed image, is a static or moving image that is generated by a mirror-reversal of an original across a horizontal axis (a flopped image is mirrored across the vertical axis). Many printmaking techniques produce images where the printed copy is reversed from the image made on…

Flipped image

Faux painting

Faux painting or faux finishing are terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood or stone. The term comes from the French word faux, meaning false, as these techniques started as a form of replicating materials such as marble and wood…

Faux painting

Art fabrication

Art fabrication describes the process or service of producing large or technically difficult artworks through entities and resources beyond an individual artist’s studio. When artists or designers are incapable or choose not to realize their designs or conceptions, they may enlist the assistance of an art fabrication company. Typically, an…

Art fabrication

Engraving

The engraving is an artistic discipline in which the artist uses different techniques printing, they have in common the draw an image on a rigid surface, called matrix, leaving a trail after staying ink to be transferred by pressure to another surface such as paper or fabric, which allows to…

Engraving

En plein air

En plein air (literally in the open air) is a phrase in French that indicates a pictorial method consisting of painting outdoors to capture the subtle nuances that light generates on every detail. Another objective of this technique is to grasp the true essence of things, since it is an…

En plein air

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