ArtGate-Ink is a curated review of contemporary visual art and it is dedicated to various aspects of art with a special interest in modern and contemporary galleries and gives answers to common questions that many don’t dare even to ask.
If you are an art lover, art enthusiast, art curator, film programmer, art collector, artist, or cinematographer here you will find articles and reviews and in general content to help you learn more and go further in your path in arts, but also be able to understand and why not analyze better art. Sometimes my articles will be a bit instructional with the point to share some knowledge, some others they will be more open and funny, but always try to be supported by academic or professional sources to have a valuable addition to your work and my work.
While being closed in my hotel room in Thessaloniki, writing, finishing a hypothetical art project and looking for some fresh air other than the beautiful view in the sea, I remembered that an old friend suggested me some months ago to visit a specific art gallery in the city that she liked it and she…
As modern art or modernism is called the art history period from 1860 to 1970, and a basic characteristic is the rejection of traditionally accepted forms, with an emphasis on (individual) experimentation. The basic characteristics of modern art are the concentration on abstraction, the stable, clean, plain forms, and the use of art as a statement. The art movements…
The modern term art gallery is derived from the Renaissance galleries and palaces in the form of narrow rooms that were used as promenades and to exhibit art. An art gallery in general is a room or a building to display or sell works of art. Roughly, we can find three types of art galleries: commercial art galleries, with for-profit purposes and function like any other business, artists’ run galleries where …
I spent the summer of 2021 in Rome, trying to visit almost all the art galleries in the city. As it was a period without tourists due to the pandemic, it was way easier not only to visit them almost alone inside the space, but it was easier to talk with the gallerists, learn about the artists and curators they support, and collaborate. I chose three of those galleries that impressed me not only due to the quality of their work, artists, and curators but also due to the quality of their research and the way they welcome the public and educate them about what they do in general and what they exhibit currently.
Pop Art is maybe the most famous art movement in the history of art, even if someone never heard of this for sure has seen a Marilyn Monoroe portrait, or a Campbell’s Soup Can. Pop Art was born between the 1950s and 1960s and emerged in the USA and Britain, when artists started utilizing commercial…
What is Colour? The definition of colour (or color) in physics is the colour’s association with electromagnetic radiation of a certain range of wavelengths visible to the human eye. In art, the use of colour includes hue, town, tint, shades, colour wheel, colour temperature and colour combination. Colour is one of the fundamental elements in…
ArtGate-Ink Recommendations But what is colour theory? The Interaction Design Foundation gives a pretty good definition of what colour theory is: “Color theory is the collection of rules and guidelines which designers use to communicate users through appealing colour schemes in visual interfaces.” To simplify is a logical structure that covers the subject: the colour…
Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna on 20 July 1890. He lived along his mother and sisters, all of whom were close together. Displaying his artistic talent from a young age, Giorgio surfaced in the city’s popular discourse during his adult life. Being an introvert, Giorgio walked his own artistic path outside the artistic movements…
