Category Archive: ART

Jane French: Portraying Human Emotion

Can a portrait of a person provoke a connection to the viewer without the viewer ever having met them? Is it possible to capture someone’s essence using brushstrokes and a blank canvas? UK artist Jane French has created a unique style that accomplishes this as she has portrayed the expressions of human connection through her breathtaking paintings. 

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Regin Igloria: Shaping Chicago Art

Large portraits varying between uses of acrylic paintings and graphite brushstrokes can be seen at the DePaul Museum of Art. The artist responsible is Chicago’s very own Regin Igloria, who finds beauty in the urban landscapes of nature and an assortment of objects which encapsulate his childhood home. For Igloria, repurposing pieces together to form intricate sculptures brings him back to his days as a kid while also symbolizing the complex relationship between past and present.  

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NFTs and the Art Industry

Within the past year news articles about the NFT boom have constantly made headlines, and teens making millions of dollars from their artwork seems to be a recurring theme.

So, what are NFT’s and why have they produced such a statement in our economy? 

NFT (Non-Fungible Token) are unique works of art stored using a blockchain technology with a special encryption and verifiable code. They are bought and sold on open crypto art markets in exchange for crypto currency or other NFT’s but not any two are alike.The non- fungible stands for the fact that they are “one of a kind” in opposition to generic bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that are interchangeable. NFT’s are not interchangeable, having ownership of an NFT means you have the rights to a particular work of art and the value varies based upon previous ownership and artistry. 

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