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It’s a question you hear often: Is all art political? That Picasso? That contemporary performance art piece? That meme you saw on your feed today? Is it all really political? To answer that question, we’re going to have to take a deeper look at art, meaning, and propaganda. It’s easy to look at art that has a clear political message, for example, political cartoons, and to see that it holds that sort of sentiment. But what about something as abstract as Jackson Pollock’s pain

This trend is viral today, but an ethical disaster tomorrow. There has been an influx of posts on social media related to the AI recreation of images in the style of Studio Ghibli art, with your past/future self, with your favorite celebrity, or reimagining different artistic concepts by various artists. All it takes is a prompt, and you can get a ‘piece of art’ for increasing your social media engagement. However, what appears to be a celebration of the artists and their ar

Statistically, 90% of your LinkedIn feed is now "prompt engineers" pretending they went to art school. Artists often disparage AI art itself for being derivative to a rudimentary, crippling degree and see it as something to be avoided. But what about AI tools? Can they be used to our advantage? Is it worth using them? Are the AI art tools democratizing art, or killing the craft? The answer is a little complicated. Say you have an image that you created but lost the original

I know this won’t be received well by most serious artists, but I’ll say it anyway. 91% of the artists spend their entire careers building a ‘signature style’. But they don’t realize their signature style can be a deathtrap! Most artists want to be found. They want to build a brand of their own that makes them stand out from the crowd. They want their work to be identified from across a room. And, this is useful as well. This recognizability creates a sense of reliability

“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal??” Are you truly being inspired by their artwork, or are you just copying it? The line between inspiration and plagiarism is a thin one to tread. There have been countless instances of artists, filmmakers, and writers throughout history having their work stolen and peddled off under a different name. But what’s the difference between stealing and taking inspiration? For one, transparency. It helps to be open about what inspires you a

OK, I’m going to say this out loud. Most commercial art galleries today are more like curated snobbery than— well, art. It’s also about who you know, what you look like, and where your friends come from. I can’t deny I myself had some success a decade ago showing my work in New England, New York, even Paris. But then life had gotten in the way, and I learned that when you stop, the algorithm forgets you ever existed. By 2019, I was picking up, however, living for the third Fr

“Does your gallery accept AI art?” It’s a question I hear far too often from artists applying to TERAVARNA. Back in the dark ages—by which I mean a couple of years before ChatGPT—AI art was mostly the playground of niche programmers. I might as well say that it had a certain character, albeit an alien one. Often visually striking, often oddly hollow, and frequently nonsensical to anyone who stared at it long enough. Not “nonsense” in the Dada sense. Not “weird” in the Surreal

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Who was Manet's secret muse Suzon and how did Édouard Manet paint his final masterpieces while he was on his deadthbed ...

Have you ever thought of making art with bacteria or fungi? Well, some microbiologists are doing wonders by creating bioart with antibiotics!!

Artificial intelligence, such as Midjourney, is transforming the art production process, leading to the question of whether machines can substitute human illustrators ... explore here.

Why is the Balloon Dog so sensational? Is it controversial, too? We’ll uncover more such answers in this blog!

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Stolen Again! Discover how precious Napoleonic jewels were stolen within minutes in the craziest Louvre Museum robbery of recent times.

Who were the famous muses for Da Vinci, Picasso, Rivera or beyond ... Revealing the hidden stories of the famous muses and their masters ....

From rare pigments and experimental binders, discover how modern science reveals the chemistry & innovation hidden in Leonardo’s palette ...

When we think of nudity in art our minds jump straight to the taboo of sexual and erotic concepts. Nudity in art is a message of freedom that is still very interesting ...

Discover the secret compound Leonardo da Vinci used for painting the immortal Mona Lisa ...

Was Michelangelo really reluctant to paint the elaborate ceilings of the Sistine Chapel? Then how did such masterpieces happen?

Watch out for the hidden messages in painting, know the secret codes and symbols, untold stories and hidden portraits of artists