The Ultimate Guide on Different Art Mediums

The Ultimate Guide on Different Art Mediums

“He who works with his hands, and his head, and his heart, is an artist” – St. Francis of Assisi Throughout art history, people have been using various materials to express themselves. Artists have always chosen concepts and techniques that fit their skills and artistic expression. This quest started with pigmented powder used for drawing on […]

Greatest Minimalism: Richard Serra and Giant COR-TEN Steel

Greatest Minimalism: Richard Serra and Giant COR-TEN Steel

“I think I’m a transitional figure. If anything, I would call myself a post-structuralist, not a postmodernist. I’m involved with evolution of form, the connection where space and matter meet. One of the things that form constantly has to do is reach a point where it pushes back against content.” – Richard Serra Best known […]

Does Size Matter in Art?

Does Size Matter in Art?

In March 2019, New York-based illustrator, sculptor, and street artist Brian Donnelly, best known as KAWS, launched a massive 121-foot-long inflatable sculpture at Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. The monumental work was pulled out into the waterfront of Tamar Park using tugboats. The work features his signature character, Companion, a gray sculpture modeled after Mickey Mouse whose […]

Constantin Brancusi: Patriarch of Modern Sculpture

Constantin Brancusi’s"Sleeping Muse" sold for $57.36 million at the Christie’s auction in New York in 2017 | Image source: positivenewsromania.com

“I pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of objects in their own intrinsic nature.” ― Constantin Brancusi It takes fifteen seconds for the rosaries to get used to the dark and make sense of the elusive shapes they make of it; it takes a lifetime to understand Brancusi’s sculpture in all its magnificence […]

Isamu Noguchi and His Art During Japanese Internment Camp

“For one with a background like myself, the question of identity is very uncertain. And I think it’s only in art that it was ever possible for me to find any identity at all.” – Isamu Noguchi It’s been 75 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt would sign Executive Order 9066 which relocated and incarcerated […]