Naïve art is a controversial artistic genre situated at the border between folk art, outsider art, or provincial art. Officially defined as visual creation belonging to individuals lacking formal education in fine arts, naïve art reflects an aesthetics decorative and simple, similar to children's drawings.
Art has been used as a tool for political propaganda that promoted ideas with negative repercussions in the long term. In its turn, politics can also provide inspiration for artistic expression. It is known the fact that artists have used their works to comment on social issues, advocate for justice, and even critique political systems or their commissioners. Italian Fascism, Russian Sovietism, and German Nazism are typical examples of totalitarian regimes which turned art into their favourite mass manipulation tool.
Although art is considered an intrinsic part of our existence, people have a different understanding of it. Some have a deep level of perceiving and reading through the messages conveyed in the canvas, while others stick to formal visual elements such as line and colour. Thus, is art for everybody?
The question ” Is graffiti vandalism or art?” arises in societies across the globe. To their creators, graffiti is an expression of creativity, of personal identity, of being part of some sort of underground culture. So what is it?
In the past art has been indisputably connected to a functional purpose. However, with the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment mentality of both the aristocracy and the masses started to change and artistic creations evolved on a different path.
Nowadays there are various artistic mediums so how can one tell which is more relevant? Will the birth of a new technique bring the death of older ones? Will digital tools replace classic art? If this happens does it mean traditional mediums are obsolete?
Fake reports, fake images, fake advertisements, fake campaigns, fake personas, and fake lives. Each of us is exposed daily to information whose content is not being verified and approved by an authority.
Anthropology is the study of human behaviour to understand the evolutionary origins and the development of societies and cultures. In globalised and multilayered technologies, the nature of the human relationship changed and a separate research wing has developed recently. Digital anthropology studies are only at the beginning and include in their area of interest techno-anthropology, ethnography, cyber anthropology, and virtual anthropology.
The invention of photography has forever changed the visual side of human existence by recording in its medium images of people, cultures, habits, foods, landscapes, and life aspects in all its colours and shapes.
In 2019, statistics registered around 300 fairs around the world, becoming a crucial infrastructure of the global art market. So why are art fairs important today and what is their focus? How did art fairs emerge for the first time and how much of their structure has changed over time?
