In celebration of 100 years since Frida Kahlo’s birth, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico City will host the most complete exhibition of Kahlo’s works. The exhibit which opened on June 13, and will run for two months, is comprised of 354 of her works, including 50 handwritten letters, 100 photographs of the artist, [...]
Mural painting has long been used to illustrate history, real and imagined: from ancient cave paintings of Lascaux, France to today’s contemporary images. Two very notable frescoes are Raphael’s School of Athens, from the Italian High Renaissance, and North American Modernist Diego Rivera’s Man, Controller of the Universe. Although created nearly 400 years apart, both [...]
One day in the 1960s, an old woman fainted in a rural Chinese train station. When police searched her belongings in an effort to identify her, they came across papers with what looked to be a secret code written on them. This being the height of the Cultural Revolution, the woman was arrested and detained [...]
As mentioned in Part 1, the price of artwork should support an artist receiving a livable wage and can be accomplished by following the 50/50 rule: 50% of the price should cover all the costs of creating the work, and the second 50% will account for the efforts of advertising, overhead and selling it. By [...]
As an artist, a major hurdle that keeps me from selling my work is pricing it. Sounds silly, but I have a hard time finding the medium between “free” and “not for sale.” I would love to make a living with my art, but I struggle with also wishing to make fine art available to [...]
