Fashion is diverse: the 15th anniversary season of Odessa Fashion Week
On November 14-15, in the luxury of the Bristol hotel, a show of new collections of designers from Ukraine, Moldova, and the United States was held as part of the…
Seller of Counterfeit Frans Hals Ordered to Pay Sotheby’s $5.73 M – ARTnews.com
The seller of an allegedly forged Frans Hals portrait will have to reimburse Sotheby’s $5.37 million after a London appeal court decided to uphold a ruling issued less than two…
Museums Negotiate Closures, and More Art News – ARTnews.com
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News Liverpool Biennial artistic director Fatos Üstek has departed amidst institutional turmoil. [ARTnews] As the Smithsonian and the National…
Met Appoints First Chief Diversity Officer—and More – ARTnews.com
Monday, November 23 Met Appoints First Chief Diversity OfficerThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has appointed Lavita McMath Turner has been named the institution’s first chief diversity officer. McMath Turner joins the…
Smithsonian and National Gallery of Art Shutter—and More Art News – ARTnews.com
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Pace Takes Over Blain Southern’s Former Gallery Space in London – ARTnews.com
New York’s Pace Gallery has announced plans to relocate its London outpost to 4 Hanover Square in Mayfair, the former home of the now-defunct Blain Southern gallery. Pace has occupied…
Museums Are Closing, But Their Websites Are Only Growing Stronger – ARTnews.com
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Pay For a Virtual Tour of Artemisia Gentileschi Show—and More News – ARTnews.com
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Angelina Jolie Will Direct Biopic About Photographer Don McCullin – ARTnews.com
Angelina Jolie has been tapped to direct a biopic about celebrated British war photographer Don McCullin. The film is titled Unreasonable Behaviour, after McCullin’s acclaimed autobiography of the same name,…
Isamu Noguchi Work Is First by Asian American Owned by White House – ARTnews.com
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Understanding Art News And Their Role In The Modern World
Art has always played an incredibly important role in society and its development. With the classical understanding of art has been developing from the beginning of the 11-12th centuries and up to today. However, modern pieces are often criticized for being too abstract and hard to understand. Nevertheless, it is more than important to understand this kind of expression anyways. So what to do? Well, reading interesting art articles may be a decent solution.
So, apparently, here is the thing: everyone likes still lifes, straightforward portraits, impressionist color palettes as well as church-related paintings (obviously a bit less). But modern one is often heatedly debated as to its meaningless and stupidity. Rarely do common people understand that all these painters are usually skilled enough to create a taken for granted still life or a portrait. Still, they prefer to depict the world this very way and it has its own reasons.
Understanding Modern Pieces By Reading More Art News
Being a way to reflect on the world’s development works of modern artists have to be understood and correctly interpreted. It is all about knowing a why and when certain things were done, the context for it, what motivated the artist, what the point of it was, as well as considering the aesthetics of the result. This can all be achieved with the help of visual art articles explaining in greater detail what is depicted and why in such a manner.
Apart from explanatory articles, the following categories should also be considered:
- art world news: coverages on the latest auctions, painting discoveries, exhibitions, and galleries updates. For everyone at least slightly interested in the topic, this category would be of special interest to get acquainted with;
- visual art news: interesting explanations of the world’s most important masterpieces from the visual art perspective. This column gives a lot of history as well as cultural background thus enabling a viewer and reader to understand the piece;
- art news UK: or for any other location, there are definitely local updates worth paying attention to. So, keep your eye on local publications as well.
To wrap things up, modern artists are not trying to scare us with their works but rather awaken a bit more curiousity to understand their emotions and feelings. This can easily be done by reading respective articles and pieces in magazines or newspapers.