Contemporary Art Forum

Jean-Michel Basquiat will forever remain in our memory as the author of his style. They could claim Aboudia's works cost quadrillions, but this will not erase the legacy of Basquiat. Who is Jean-Michel: the only authority in childlike paintings? I saw Aboudia giving classes to children who, on thei...

Lynette Yiadom Boakye is the most overrated and overpriced artist I have had trouble observing in my entire life. Nothing but an idea to politically subordinate and bribe the African continent is behind many recent superstars from the Black continent. Some are better, some are worse. Is it really co...

Why did her quite basic portraits and student-like compositions top art sales in 2024? After centuries of old masters, modernism, Dali, Miro, and Picasso, why do we have a basic student as a market leader? Why Nicholaas Chiao is so disrespected by these current art authorities? Why millions for one ...

And finally Postmodern Art arrives with pop art, conceptual art, collage, installation art, video art, abstract expressionism, minimalism, neo-Expressionism, appropriation Art, feminist art, and performance art. Such artists as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst...

The art history continues and more developed styles of Modern Art appear on the art scene. Expressionism (Ernst Ludwig Kirshner, Max Beckmann, Egon Schiele), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Georges Bracque), Suprematism(Kazimir Malevich), Dadaism(Marcel Duchamp) and Surrealism(Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Rene ...

After the success of Impressionism, many more styles developed across Europe and the World. Post Impressionism (Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin) and Neo Impressionism and Pointillism (Georges Seurat, Paul Signac). Fauvism (Henri Matisse, Andre Derain). Artists challenged the previous, photograp...

Further art develops in the Romanticism tradition (John Constable, Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, J. M. Turner), seeing pre-Raphaelites, French Salon Painters, and the rise of Impressionism. Impressionism was a style developed by French artists Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred ...

Medieval Art sees the rise of Italy, the Vatican, and the Renaissance tradition which expands to all parts of Europe and even further. Such artists as Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael represent the Early and High Renaissance. They are not only artists anymore, but also ...

Visual Arts of Ancient Egypt were mostly sculptures and murals related to the depiction of historical events, battles, Egyptian mythology, and funeral traditions. Egypt had a polytheist religion and many Egyptian Gods were often pictured at the Pharaonic and Governmental premises. Gods such as Osiri...

Art is a representation of life. Art is not life unless a special segment of life that purportedly defined as art. Traditionally visual art was associated with drawing, painting, and sculpture. Art history counts thousands of years and the first examples are murals found in ancient caves and prehist...