The art minute

The cradle of humanity and the land of the first men, Africa is an eternal foundation of our modern world. However long neglected, sidelined, plundered, the continent of 54 countries seems today to begin its revenge, in an area where it was no longer expected: Contemporary Art.

In the early 1950s, an Art was born that owes nothing to the past and has no contemporary influence. An Art guided by the expressiveness and the spontaneous gesture breaking with a figurative inheritance. The Informalism.

Everybody has heard about watercolor: unlike sculpture or other more complex practices, watercolor is within everyone’s reach, starting in kindergarten. But what do we really know about this likeable water-color paint? Answers in six not-so-silly questions!

For this early 2021, we wanted a blank page. To appease things after a rather hectic and tough year. To purify our indoors, after surveying during our lockdown months. But also make room for new elegance as well.

Does travel mean a simple movement in space? Isn’t it rather a revolution of the senses, a change of scene which can be triggered through reading, a movie-or artwork?

How about being audacious and buy art online? There are many good reasons why one should buy artwork online, let us explain these reasons to you and how it really works.

Gérard Garouste is a sculptor, engraver and one of the most important contemporary French painters. He paints mainly around mythology, fairy tales and fables. A look back at an artist who has managed to make his mark in the art world despite his difficult family history and his mental problems, with more than 600 paintings exhibited throughout the world.

Pierre Soulages, is honored at an exhibition at the Fabre museum in Montpellier. This is an opportunity to reminisce about artists explored territories

In a society where garbage continues to grow, causing air pollution, soil but also water, recycling has become the cornerstone of environmental protection. Art has not escaped the trend. When our waste becomes their raw material.

The Art of the portrait has drawn a sinuous line following the curves to various aspects of the history of Art. Present since Antiquity and abandoned for religious purposes, the art of portraiture has been sublimated by the Flemish Masters and tortured by photography.

Far from the usual clichés on a contemporary African Art which would illustrate itself only in the recycling and which would never really have left the spheres of the craft industry, the contemporary artistic scene of the continent is in full boiling.

The Scream, painted by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893, is not only the most important painting of European Expressionism, but also a worldwide icon of the 20th century that belongs to the collective memory. The painting has been deciphered, analysed and interpreted many times, but it still hides a few secrets.

From a restful landscape to the confusing features of a female face, Gustav Klimt's artistic life is far from a peaceful stroll. Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving movement of the art of Symbolism from a mysterious genius to extraordinary posthumous success.

Abstract Expressionism is an artistic movement with multiple forms, Action Painting being the most notable of them.

Artists have always represented sport. While today they are committed to diverting its codes and its perception, in the past, it is the sporting gesture and the body in movement that inspired them then.