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…
Photography
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Step into the studio of Marjon Trap, where beauty emerges from the imperfect, capturing a surreal and balanced world beyond reality. Marjon Trap is a photographer who loves to shoot beauty in the imperfections. Intricately and surreally, she stages her images and tinkers, fiddles, adjusts, and refines them, sometimes taking over 100 shots to find the right balance. In Trap’s…
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Realism art is traditionally used to describe the 19th century movement that used everyday scenes and people as subject matter, depicting them in a naturalistic style. Today the term is also used to describe works of art that are painted so realistically that they resemble a photograph. Realism Art: Origins in 19th Century France Realism as an artistic movement first…
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Gerhard Richter’s Seascape Cloudy combines many of his signature techniques and styles, from the use of grey to photo-realism and blurring, in order to create a work that is ultimately concerned with perception. Seascape Cloudy encourages the viewer to consider how they perceive painting and photography and the boundary between the two mediums. In this article, Singulart discusses Seascape Cloudy…
