Visual artist

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Suppose you're at a party, and someone asks you what you do for a living. "I'm a visual artist," you reply. But what does that mean, exactly? Most people think of artists like painters or sculptors, but the term "visual artist" can encompass a more comprehensive range of creative professionals.…

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Ritchelly Oliveira is a Brazilian visual artist, predominantly working in the realm of portraiture. His images depict emotive studies of usually male figures, sometimes layered with natural imagery of flowers and birds. The characters are seen to both ignore and interact with the other components in the frame, and Oliveira creates playful areas of negative […]

‘I found my silence’ by Eiko Ojala is a sereis of personal work of finding peace and silence our ever changing world. It’s about acepting...

Cameroonian visual artist Maxime Manga combines photography, geometric shapes and textural elements to produce powerful images.

Painting by Irenr Pérez

Get familiar with the work of Nigerian visual artist Adekunle Adeleke.

One of de Kooning's friends once asked her what it was like to work in the shadow of her husband, Willem de Kooning. She replied: "I don't paint in his shadow, I paint in his light.'"