Lately, I took a part in the exhibition in Lion, France. It was held from 13.10-19.10.2023. I was invited to the presentation of two works: The Silence and Junction. Silence is a digital painting printed and manipulated with additional brushwork on canvas. Junction is an oil painting made on canvas. The public warmly accepted both works and received a lot of compliments.

I am happy to tell you that I was a part of the exhibition in Tokyo—an excellent opportunity to open up to a new audience, now in Japan.

Part of the catalog

NEW ART VIBES
Sustainability and Art
9-15 September 2022
Mediana Art Gallery
Via Merulana 220, ROMA

A sensory journey that investigates the relationship between contemporary art and
food. Colors, shapes, and signs become the link between the languages of art and
taste. A shows that it wants to be a “tasting” of emotions and the discovery of
taste through pictorial images. Art and food run similar paths, characterized by
balance, harmony, passion, and commitment. If food was the protagonist of works in the past, particularly in the field of genre painting, contemporary art

Art as nourishment, experience, and education create functional change in our lives.
The great value and significance of an exhibition as a tool for reflection, awareness, and knowledge through the work of the selected artists who, with their works and
languages related to contemporary art, tackle important issues such as that
cultural innovation, sustainability, excesses, deficiencies, nutrition, our body as a
means of physical and psychological communication of our state of welfare,
justice, community, research. Reflections that revolve around questions important,
how does art nourish ourselves? What do I choose for my nourishment? Of what
do I want to feed myself?
Giulia Zanesi, Art Curator

That art exhibition was an excellent opportunity to share my works with the audience in Roma. I am grateful to the curators and organizers who invited me to take part in it. I was presented with a few works. One of them is “Saxophonist.”

Eugene K.

In short about the exhibition.

New York is the center of modern art today. Every artist dreams, I suppose, to present the work in one of the Manhattan galleries. I am thrilled to mention that the work “The Junction” was chosen by the MACO museum to be exhibited in Saphira and Ventura gallery in a permanent exhibition. This is in short. You can see it till the end of 2022. This is a link to the site: https://saphiraventura.com/

Artists, on the other hand, create philosophical and critical statements, autobiographies, and other types of writing that would not be considered with the visual art label, otherwise, in such a scenario, an artist will be considered as a writer.

The physical and visual forms of meaning are essential components. These characteristics help to define the environment and set it apart from more conventional methods such as sculpture and painting.

After this brief clarification we need to dig into the best 12 art books you should be reading in 2021.

Which Art Books should you be reading in 2021?

We will categorize each art book in the list to give you the best options to explore the best art books and read per your interest.

Best Art Books for Kids

The Katie Books – Katie’s books have become literary classics. Katie has been immersed in the canvases of great artists for the past 25 years, from Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne to Monet, Da Vinci, and Degas, with thrilling and visually spectacular experience! The ideal way to expose KS1 students to Classical art masters.

Why is art full of naked people? The most popular questions that children have about the world of art (such as “What is it exactly” or “Is it finished?” “Why is art so expensive?” and, in the world of modern art, “My little sister should do that, why is it art?”) are answered in an entertaining, humorous manner, with many photographs of famous works. A unique – yet extremely useful – gateway to the visual arts.

Old Masters Rock – Do you want to learn about the classic art with your kid? Old Masters Rock is a family-friendly book that discusses the history and context of masterpieces from the Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist, and Realist eras, as well as providing kids with fun information about the artists and creative work. The reproductions of artwork are also stunning.

Picture This! The ideal gift shop purchase and a fantastic investment for a family visit to the National Gallery in London, this is a companion guide and activity book for kids visiting the Gallery. Popular works by painters such as Rubens, Degas, Rembrandt, Velázquez, and others are presented to children via beautiful recreations as well as data, puzzles, events, and did-you-knows influenced by the aforementioned painters.

123s of Art – Numbers can be learned via artistic expression! This pleasingly curated counting book featuring some of the world’s most famous paintings will spark your child’s imagination and curiosity. Your children will find works by Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Maria Sibylla Merian, and others in this collection.

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Morgan Howell at 45 RPM – Morgan Howell paints iconic 7″ singles, taking into consideration every crease, tear, and flaw to create a one-of-a-kind, completely exclusive artwork that is almost similar to the host’s published version, but blown to smithereens, supersized, to 27.6 x 27.6 inches, and 3D, with the spindle in the middle, as though the record is prepared to play. Howell’s completely unique style has earned him a cult following among art lovers and musicians alike, with artwork sponsored by the likes of Jude Law, Neil Diamond, Stone Roses Ian Brown and Edgar Wright , and major record companies choosing the author’s work for display in its offices.

Tokyo Ghoul: re illustrations: zakki by Sui Ishida, the designer of the hit manga and anime. Tokyo Ghoul: re Illustrations: zakki, has created a full-color art book showcasing his fantastic and intimidating work. Sui Ishida’s fantastic work on Tokyo Ghoul: re Illustrations: zakki, the best-selling sequels  to the hit anime and manga Tokyo Ghoul, is featured in this filled to the brim art book. Tokyo Ghouls: re Illustrations: zakki includes artwork, BTS details, and narration.

Art – Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is another one on our list! An entirely new way of looking at global art history, as seen through the eyes of one of the world’s most prestigious art museums. This innovative book – arranged by conceptual keywords instead of the normal chronological or regional divisions – features over 800 artworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in New York.

You Are an Artist – it is a creative journey in which you’ll make up fictional characters, sort books, propose a purpose, create a scenery, discover your band, and transform into someone else (or at least try). Your task is to interpret these assignments through the prism of your own experience of life and create art that represents your views of the world. You don’t need to be able to draw well, spread a canvas, or blend a paint color to participate in this project.

Everything She Touched is a documentary about the extraordinary life of Ruth Asawa, an American sculptor. This is the story about a woman who, in the face of bigotry, used her creativity and hope to turn anything she touched into art. Writer Marilyn Chase brings Asawa’s character to life in this gripping autobiography.

Essential Art Therapy Exercises – Effective techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD – Art therapy will help you process stressful thoughts and emotions. This vibrant workbook demonstrates how making art will help you cope with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. These cognitive exercises will help you transcend the mind sets that are pulling you back and bring you to inner peace, from drawing a representation of your favourite song to writing affirmations and taking pictures to match.

Goya – A Portrait of the Artist – Janis Tomlinson uses a wide variety of sources, including letters, court documents, and a sketchbook used by Goya early in his career, to paint a nuanced picture of a complex and multifaceted painter and printmaker whose art is associated with convincing depictions of the individuals, occurrences, and socialist revolution that shaped his life and period.

BONUS!!!

I feel that you want more of these art books. So, we are going to list additional list here that will keep you hooked.

Salvador Dali: The Impossible Collection – Salvador Dali’s work ranged from impressionism to cubism, paintings to stage design, and his quirky personality was a genre of art in and of itself. Paul Moorhouse, a curator and art historian, has compiled a new book that features 100 of his works.

Art: The Definitive Visual Guide – With a stunningly vibrant cover and a foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon, this art book both looks beautiful and is filled with beautiful content. Showcasing over 700 works of art from the likes of Van Gogh and Picasso, this makes a great book for perusing with a cup of tea on a lazy Sunday.

100 Painters of Tomorrow – Kurt Beers featured in the book were selected by a group of some of the most prestigious figures in contemporary art today from an open call of over 4,300 applicants. One of the greatest art books of all time.

The Deftness of Da Vinci – Da Vinci was a master of almost everything, but none more so than draftsmanship. This book vividly recreates 663 of his sketches, ranging from spatial information to architectural drawings, most of which are presented in packed format so that every detail can be scrutinized.

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History – A wonderful and intimate preamble to some of the most influential female artists in the world. Enjoy amusing stories about each artist, complete with recreations with their most well-known works and exclusive portraits by Lisa Congdon.

Rothko: The Colour Field Paintings – This exhibition of Rothko’s profound conceptual art features fifty large-scale paintings from his colorful field era (1949–1970). The iconic photographs are accompanied by essays by Rothko’s son, Christopher Rothko, and Janet Bishop, curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The ideal gift for a long-time Rothko fan or someone who is just getting started with his work.

Turner’s Sketchbooks – J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) sketchbooks, illustrations, and watercolors are among the Tate’s finest artifacts. The most of these, around 37,500 accessioned works, were given to the community after Turner’s death in 1856 as part of the Turner Bequest. The collection entries include complete bibliographies, exhibition histories, critical commentaries, and technical and conservation details on the media, objects, and condition of the individual works, written by Tate curators, conservators, and scholars, as well as external experts and visiting fellows. This book contains a plethora of new or relevant information that might spike your interest.

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What is a Sculpture?

Sculpture is the visual arts branch that works in three dimensions. It is a type of plastic art. Carving and modelling in stone, metal, ceramics, wood, and other materials were initially used in robust sculptural methods, but since Modernism, there has been almost total independence of materials and methods.

A simple distinction is made between sculpture in the circle, which is free-standing sculpture such as sculptures that are not attached to any other surface (except probably at the base), and relief, which is at least partially attached to a background surface. The degree of projection from the wall is also used to classify relief into low or beys-relief, high relief, and sometimes an intermediate mid-relief.

Sculpture and Techniques

A fundamental distinction is made between subtractive carving techniques, which extract material from an existing block or lump, such as stone or wood, and modelling techniques, which form or build up the work from the material. To produce the work, techniques like casting, stamping, and molding use an intermediate matrix containing the design; many of these enable the production of several copies.

The Lion-man, discovered in a German cave in 1939, is one of the oldest sculptures ever discovered. It dates from 35,000 to 40,000 years ago and is from the pre-history, or before the invention of writing. Venus of Willendorf, a 4.4-inch sculpture depicting a woman, is another classic primitive sculpture. It was discovered in Austria and is thought to have been carved between the years of 24,000 and 22,000 BC.

Greatest Sculptures

1. The Great Sphinx of Giza, the oldest known monumental sculpture from ancient Egypt, is the first sculpture on our list. Sculptures were often created in ancient Greece and Rome to honor the various Gods or to demonstrate the kings’ greatness. Maybe the most famous piece of ancient Greek sculpture is Venus de Milo, which depicts the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
2. This tiny figurine measuring just over four inches in height was found in Austria in 1908. It is the Ur sculpture of art history. Nobody knows what it was used for, but theories have included everything from a goddess of fertility to a gratification aid. Some scholars believe it was a self-portrait painted by a woman. It is the most well-known of a number of Old Stone Age artifacts.
3. The statue is thought to have been found on April 8, 1820, by a peasant called Yorgos Kentrotas. On Milos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, he discovered it in parts. The sculpture was later given to King Louis XVIII of France, who donated it to the Louvre, where it is still on display today.
4. Auguste Rodin, generally regarded as the father of modern sculpture, was a towering figure in the field of sculpture. This statue was originally conceived as part of a massive commission for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell, which began in 1880. Rodin based this commission on Dante’s Divine Comedy, and some critics claim The Thinker was supposed to be a representation of Dante. During Rodin’s lifetime and even after his death, several marble and bronze editions of The Thinker in various sizes were made. The most popular version, however, is the 6-foot (1.8-meter) bronze statue in the Rodin Museum’s gardens in Paris, which was cast in 1904. During Rodin’s lifetime, several marble and bronze editions of The Thinker in various sizes were made.
5. The statue’s name literally translates to “peeing little guy” or “peeing baby.” It’s a small bronze sculpture of a nude little boy urinating into the basin of a fountain. It is situated at the crossroads of the Rue du Chene and the pedestrian Rue de l’Etuve in Brussels’ city centre. The Manneken Pis is regarded as a symbol of Brussels’ revolutionary spirit and is one of the city’s most prominent monuments.
6. The Roman Catholic Circle of Rio de Janeiro suggested that a statue of Jesus Christ be built on Mount Corcovado in 1921. The statue will be visible from anywhere in Rio due to the summit’s commanding height of 2,310 feet (704 meters). The statue was designed by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, and the sculpture was done by French sculptor Paul Landowski. Silva Costa collaborated with others.
7. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a massive limestone statue of a sphinx, a legendary beast with the body of a lion and the head of a human. It is one of the world’s most prominent monuments. It measures 240 feet (73 meters) long from paws to tail, 66 feet (20 meters) tall from foundation to top of its head, and 62 feet (19 meters) wide at the rear haunches.
8. Since its discovery in 1912 in the remains of Amarna, the capital city created by the most notorious Pharaoh in Ancient Egyptian history, Akhenaten, this image has been a symbol of feminine beauty. Accelerating the crown as Amenhotep IV, Akhenaten changed his name as part of his decision to overthrow the existing pantheon of Egyptian gods and create his own religion: a monotheistic cult devoted to the Sun God Aten, who was depicted in carvings and wall murals as an abstract disc. According to some Egyptologists, she was Tut’s mother. Her mummy has never been discovered, though latest evidence indicates she could be buried in a room behind a wall in Tut’s tomb.
9. The Terracotta Army (arguably the most incredible archaeological discovery in history) is a huge cache of clay sculptures hidden in three massive dumps near the Shi Huang’s tomb, China’s first Emperor, who died in 210 BC. Although each soldier’s features appear to be distinctive, they’re actually based on ten standard facial forms, which were created in an assembly line process in which craftsmen used molds to create the figures in separate segments before gluing them together with a watered-down clay known as slip. Laocoön and His Sons, perhaps the most prominent sculpture of Roman antiquity, was discovered in Rome in 1506 and transferred to the Vatican, where it remains to this day. It is based on the legend of a Trojan priest and his sons being killed by sea serpents sent by the sea god Poseidon in retaliation for Laocoön’s attempt to reveal the Trojan Horse’s ruse.
10. Picasso produced a cardboard Maquette of a work that would have a massive influence on twentieth-century art in 1912. Guitar, which was also in MoMA’s collection, portrayed a guitar, a theme Picasso often explored in painting and collage, and in several ways, Guitar transferred the cut-and-paste strategies of collage to three dimensions.
11. Christ the Redeemer has become a worldwide emblem of Christianity. It is both a Rio de Janeiro and a Brazilian cultural symbol. In a 21st-century poll of more than 100 million votes, the statue was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Silva Costa collaborated with French engineer Albert Caquot on the statue’s profile, which was sculpted by Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida. In 1931, Christ the Redeemer, also known as Cristo Redentor in Portuguese, was completed. It stands 98 feet (30 meters) tall, except the pedestal, which is 26 feet (8 meters) tall.
12. Antonio Canova (1757–1822), an Italian sculptor, is widely regarded as the best of the 18th century. As evidenced by his marble depiction of the Greek legendary hero Perseus, his work epitomized the Neo-Classical theme. Canova created two iterations of the sculpture, one of which is housed in the Vatican in Rome and the other in the European Sculpture Court of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
13. Though Impressionist master Edgar Degas is best known for his paintings, he also dabbled in sculpture, creating what is perhaps his most radical work. Degas chose to cover much of his embellishments in wax to blend in with the rest of the girl’s features, but he left the tutu and a ribbon tying behind her hair as-is, making the figure one of the first examples of found-object sculpture. Dancer was Degas’s only displayed sculpture during his lifetime; after his death, 156 more specimens were discovered floundering in his workshop.

Did you know?

Michelangelo is one of the most popular sculptors of all time.

He was a “Renaissance man” or “Universal Genius” who prospered in sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering, among other things. Above all, he is generally considered to be the greatest sculptor of all time. Michelangelo was known as Il Divino (“the Holy One”) during his lifetime.

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The theory that all life arose from a common origin through natural genetic variation, often achieving price with traits that aided their reproductive success, and then being fixed in the population, is known as species evolution.

Art is practiced by over all cultures around the world in various ways and can be considered one of the distinguishing features of the human race. The visual arts, major part in the evolution of art, are intimately associated with music, dance, ritual (marking life milestones, death, faith, and politics) and speech in the modern world (poetry, song and story-telling).

The Fountain was strongly defended by critics who praised the work for exposing a transformative relationship between artist and artwork, despite the Society’s rejection of it as “immoral.” According to those critics, The Fountain demonstrates that an artist’s labor has little bearing on the quality of their work—that an artwork is immediately imbued with cultural meaning as soon as an artist labels it “art.”

Art can now be almost anything. However, there was a period not long ago when abstraction was unthinkable, and it was thought that the evolution of art should only reflect what already existed in the real world. There was a period when an item could only be called art if it had evidence of the artist’s handiwork.

Because of the rapid growth of all related metrics, even the word “art world” has become outdated. Many have commented that it can now only be properly categorized as the “art industry.” The huge rise in art fairs over the last ten years has resulted in an insanely packed annual fair calendar that manages to include more or less every major city on the planet (plus many others).

When you consider the rise of online promotion, marketing, and sales of visual art across a variety of channels, it’s clear that the digital realm is the only true frontier ripe for expansion, disruption, or both. Instagram has evolved into a highly visible platform for the promotion and selling of art. It is unavoidable that new technology such as virtual reality and 3D modelling will emerge.

Visual Arts

Visual arts are a very important step in the evolution of art. One of the distinguishing features of the human race is the ability to create visual art, but due to a lack of archaeological evidence, we know very little about the origins and development of this component of human culture. Color, design, and the replication of visual resemblance are all elements of art. At least 30 000 years ago, Upper Paleolithic Europeans developed 2D and 3D art forms.

As a result, the roots of art are much older and can be found in Africa, prior to global human dispersal. Human body painting, such as skin coloring with ocher and the use of beads, is the earliest known evidence of ‘artistic behavior,’ though both may have had practical roots.

The Emerging Phase – Start of the Evolution of Art

There was a period when galleries served creators they found, dedicating their premises, purpose, and entire artistic and company resources to advancing the careers of those they regarded as youthful talents of their place and time.

This activity is fundamentally what gave contemporaneous galleries their ‘modern’ sobriquet: their emphasis on emerging artists’ ‘new art, now,’ and subsequent shepherding of their journeys to proven, mid-career, and, if all goes well, blue chip status.

The art world shifted, and secondary market trading opportunities were recognized as major revenue generators, with galleries informing their collector groups on the asset class opportunity and investment strategies inherent in making the “correct” acquisition choices.

This strategy was based on the unscrupulous identification of market holes, such as artists whose positions in books, museums, and the canon’s sphinx were not expressed in their market price at auctions. Nowadays, identifying historic artists of significance whose careers have yet to take off in any meaningful way is a new aspect in any self-respecting gallery’s activities—the discovery of traditional artists of prominence whose careers have yet to take off in any significant way. The list of people who have been rediscovered as the new “emerging” is rising all the time, with many of them belonging to formerly marginalized gender or ethnic groups.

Mid-tier Galleries

Many well-known and mid-tier galleries with immaculate reputation and image and seemingly nigh indestructible businesses have closed their doors for good in the last decade. While the specifics of these cases are always relevant to the owners’ personal circumstances and choices, it is an unavoidable fact that many of the contemporary art country’s major artists (as measured by institutional recognition) are women.

The Mermaid Painting

The evolution of art starts from a very distant time. Consider mermaid paintings from as early as 1000 B.C., which show that humans were considering the possibility that we developed fins instead of legs. Take mythological creatures like Pegasus, a horse with wings, or the centaur, a man with a horse’s body: however flawed these ideas may seem in light of what we now know, they reflect the way we have imagined species change.

The Evolution of Art

The conversation between musicians, scientists, and the audience began with a single question: what are some of the most common evolutionary misunderstandings? They contained the notion that evolution takes a long time (it most definitely does not for bacteria and viruses), but the most troubling was the notion that evolution is taking us to a genetic “peak.” We talk about winning the “genetic lottery” too casually.

We talk about winning the “genetic lottery” all the time, but it doesn’t exist; evolution is a never-ending phase of evolutionary planning with no end in sight. Evolutionary art is a form of generative art in which the artist does not create the artwork themselves, but instead delegates the task to a computer system. BioArt, in contrast to evolutionary art, uses living organisms as the material medium instead of paint, stone, metal, and so on.

Evolution of Art Through Manga and Anime

Anime is a form of animation that encompasses a variety of genres found in other mediums; it is often incorrectly categorized as a genre. The word anime is a Japanese term that refers to all animated works, regardless of style or origin.

Let’s start with some artwork and animation. If we look at an anime from the early 1980s or earlier, such as Space Battleship Yamato, we can see that the artwork was not particularly detailed. They didn’t have high-tech equipment or a digitized drawing system, to be sure. But we’ll put that aside for now. The eyes in Star Blazers: Generation Y were solid-colored, vaguely detailed, and dull. The physiology of characters were not closely linked.

If we look at previous episodes, we can see that… In terms of artwork, there was no distinction between Disney cartoons and Anime. The eyes were black-and-white, and the anatomy was cartoonish. However, since the late 1980s, the artwork and animation have progressed dramatically. Gunbuster, one of my favorite anime series from the 1980s, was a watershed moment for anime animation and artwork, in my opinion.

Artwork and Anime

In anime, the artwork and animation have received an increasing amount of publicity, commitment, and production. Not only did we get good painting, but we also got a variety of styles. Violet Evergarden, Eureka Seven, Monogatari are examples of art house; Mushishi, Lovely Complex, and Welcome to the NHK are examples of smooth and restrained art.

Anime is distinguished from other types of animation by its wide range of art styles, animation techniques, creation, and operation. Anime works have a wide range of art forms, which vary depending on the writers, designers, and studios. Although no single art style dominates anime as a whole, there are some commonalities in animation technique and character design.

To begin with, good artwork and animation can improve the quality of a show, but they are not needed for a good show. Second, you’ll need to find a style that matches the mood or can be used to advance the story. Anime has developed into a diverse and progressive media medium thanks to animation techniques such as CGI, improvements in art design trends, and global access to online viewing accessible to today’s audiences.

Owing to a lack of practice, when an artist starts drawing a series for the first time, the art and character designs are likely to be crude or simple. As the artist gains experience over the course of the series, rough lines can be smoothed out and designs refined, resulting in a gradual change in the art. This process usually comes to a halt when they are pleased with the nature and evolution of the art and it crystallizes.

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