The Singulart Prize 2025 is still up and running and we are proud to announce that we are partnering with the Société Générale. Société Générale is a major contemporary art promoter, which sees the realization of artistic innovation and cultural dialogue as a natural extension of its primary mission. The theme this year, ‘Deeply Human,’ offers artists a way to…
Modern Art
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This Year’s theme of the Singulart Prize, “Deeply Human“, is relevant for a world navigating unprecedented change and digital acceleration. The Prize seeks to celebrate art that speaks vulnerability, empathy, and emotional connection, across mediums, and to universal human experiences. Anna Dobatkina, Polaroid’s Director of Communications, Social, and Culture Marketing, is also one of the esteemed jurors for the 2025…
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We are pleased to present Aomi Kikuchi, an artist who works across creative disciplines but is connected throughout with a commitment to transformation and compassion, as part of our latest feature in Singulart magazine. Inspired by Buddha’s teachings on impermanence, Aomi draws on the mono no a-wa-re tradition of Japanese aesthetics (translated as ‘the distinct beauty of things passing’), and…
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Multidimensional artist and graduate of the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Inga Mijatovic is a passionate advocate of a wide palette of creative mediums. Her practice stems from a complex knowledge of color theory, painting, photography, sculpting, and theatre. Working with acrylics and mixed media on cotton canvas, she not only produces beautiful works of art, but she…
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The way you achieve your final goal is often illuminated by early passions, transformative experiences and a determination to keep creating. The same can be said for the artist in this interview – Lynne Meneses. Her whole life journey is as vast and varied as an artist’s can be, crossing continents and artistic revolutions. Lynne’s artist’s direct relation to art’s…
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The mingling of both painting and photographic techniques illustrated in the production of Ayyad Ayyad offers a gustative teaser of all things modern. These are the abstract and the figurative representations of modern life. These are Amman cityscapes and Portland, Oregon cityscapes done in acrylics and mixed media on canvas. Symbolic motifs are the reuse of argued domes and staircases,…
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Paul Klee is one of the most influential artists in the modern art movement. While he took inspiration from cubism, expressionism and surrealism, his art cannot be confined to any one genre. Red Balloon is one of his most well-known pieces: a whimsical, geometric painting which displays Klee’s talent for color theory. Singulart investigates Red Balloon as an example of…
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Lucio Fontana’s minimalist modern art has delighted and confused critics since he started producing his infamous slashed canvases in the 1940s. One of his most celebrated works Spatial Concept: Waiting consists of a single cut on a warm, brown-hued canvas. As the father of the spatialism concept, Fontana was at the helm of important developments in the modern art movement.…
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Cologne Cathedral Window was designed by Gerhard Richter to replace the cathedral’s original windows that were destroyed in the Second World War. Combining technology and tradition, Richter applied the principles of his color field paintings to the medium of stained glass to create an abstract composition made up of different combinations of colored squares. In this article, Singulart discusses the…
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Black on Maroon is an uncharacteristically dark piece by acclaimed modern artist Mark Rothko. Famous for his ‘multiforms’, where colorful rectangles are layered on a canvas, almost blending into the luminous background, Black on Maroon reflects a more somber period of Rothko’s art. The painting has a convoluted history; originally created as part of a series to hang in the…
