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Epoxy Resin Art Technique is definitely one of the most exciting mediums as it is versatile and can make both 2D and 3D art. In acrylic pouring, epoxy resin augments or seals pieces, giving them extra depth and vibrance.
Jan Vermeer’s painting of a private concert is among the most valuable stolen artworks ever. The painting was created around 1665 and Art experts estimate its value at around 250 million dollars. Vermeer paintings are also of such high value because the Dutch painter of the Baroque period produced only three dozen of his inimitable paintings.
The Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, a highly valued gallery containing around 400 pictures, has been searching almost for 77 years for the artwork “Painter on the way to Tarascon”. The van Gogh’s artwork has belonged to the museum since 1912 and is listed in the “Lost Art” database. It measures only 49 centimeters in height and 45 centimeters in width. The Magdeburg museum considers its estimated value of 100 million euros to be quite “realistic”.
Danubiana is situated appr. 20 km south of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. The museum was founded by Gerard Meulensteen, an enthusiastic Dutch collector and art patron, and his Slovak friend Vincent Polakovic, a Slovak gallerist. It is often called “one of the most romantic museums of modern art in Europe”.
Over time the concept of art underwent an extensive development and became autonomous cultural value fitting in the framework of modern society.
Moreover, the society itself profoundly evolved socially as well as culturally. The modern society distinguishes between the material/ practical and symbolic/ artistic dimensions.
What is art? There are available many definitions of art, although when put it in simple words: art is a reflection of reality (at the very least). Artists create the art employing the contemporary resources, the technology, the knowledge as well as they do it in the given social, cultural, religious, philosophical, and economic framework.
The new art wave the “Modernism”, which started to spread through Europe around the end of the 19th century, reached also a small territory which is today Slovakia. As many artists covered on this website come from Slovakia, let us take a closer look at beginnings of the Slovak Modernism.
This website is devoted to contemporary modern art. It might be then useful to learn more about the modern art. Let’s start with the question: How all this started? The roots of modern art go back to the Industrial Revolution (c.1760 – 1860), which profoundly changed how people lived, worked or spent their free time. More people began to live in towns and cities, which necessarily led to new challenges for art, industrial art and design.