Whether your dream winter aesthetic is a cozy cottage, a snowy chalet or a sleek Scandinavian-style space we all want to find a way to bring that festive feeling into our homes when the weather starts to get colder and the nights longer. But where to start creating this festive atmosphere? We talked with furniture and interior designer Victoria Maria…
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Flavia Birsan is a prize-winning Romanian painter who has exhibited her art nationally and in the United Arab Emirates. She is currently produces artworks for four of her ongoing major series: Interlude, Geometrica, Angels, and Perpetuum, where she explores minimalism, vivid colors, and angel wings. Attracted to the gestural painting style, Birsan continuously experiments with various supports and techniques. SINGULART…
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Oleksii Gnievyshev is an emerging Ukrainian painter and graduate of the Art Academy in Kiev, whose work has already received international exposure. Today, Gnievyshevi lives and works outside of Cologne. His oil on canvas paintings combine classical realism with modernity using a bright, engaging color pallet. His subjects vary from figurative nudes to hyper-realistic still lives. SINGULART spoke with Oleksii…
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Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) was a member of the First Generation of the New York School, a group of American artists whose compositions rose to prominence in the mid-1940s and were known for their dynamic approach and “all the time” abstract painting. During his seventy-year career de Kooning distinguished himself from his peers by delivering on his unique contributions to…
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If you look at portraits of busts such as Dreamcatcher and Rose Quartz (both 2016) you will see that they are housed in galleries dedicated to Rodin’s early work and his works in marble and plaster that are mostly dedicated to a portrait bust, with rare exceptions and whole figures. Specific elements of Mutus’ art that place her in this…
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Because at Swoon the content of our signature sugar cookies is as important as anything that catches your eye. We don’t believe in sugar and we don’t believe in artificial ingredients either. No matter how many sets of jewelry he has he will smile and pass out from the new jewelry. Sure a dozen roses are romantic and all, but…
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Sol LeWitt was one of the leading figures of his day; he transformed the process of artistic creation by questioning the fundamental relationship between an idea, an artist’s subjectivity and the work of art an idea can create. While many artists challenged modern notions of originality, authorship and artistic genius in the 1960s, LeWitt denied that approaches such as minimalism,…
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Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA ) is an American sculptor best known for his massive abstract steel sculptures, in which the essential presence challenges the physical qualities of the pieces and their specific locations. However, his sculptures still evoke a sense of sublime due to their immensity and materiality. One of the most…
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The princes’ photographs show that it is not the origin of the images (artist or advertising agency) that matters, but their destination… the place belonging to the viewer… where the images find their meaning…. In the mid-1970s Prince made pictorial drawings and collages which he has since abandoned. Studying images from media, advertising and entertainment of the late 1970s, he…
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Although less refined than Van Dyck as a portrait painter he shows this outstanding master of the path. His subjects of pure fantasy, such as the Garden of Love (Madrid and Dresden) and the Village Festival (Louvre), have never been equal to him. He was all the more rare, both a popular painter and a painter-painter, as close to Constable,…
