Piotr Policht, Author at DailyArtMagazine.com

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Masterpieces of Minimalism by Robert Morris

By Piotr PolichtFebruary 20, 2017

What do you get when you strip art of metaphor, representation or metaphysics? It turns out that even if „what you see is what you see”, as Frank Stella put it, and there’s no „hidden meaning”...

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Teapots and Dresses In The Service Of The Russian Revolution

By Piotr PolichtJanuary 14, 2017

This year marks exactly one hundred years since the October Revolution. On that occasion, we’d like to take you on a little trip back to the early Soviet Russia, but instead of looking at the great...

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Meet Jordan Wolfson’s Alluring and Creepy Animatronic Sculptures

By Piotr PolichtJanuary 13, 2017

Did you even wonder how art could look like in the age of AI and high-tech body enhancements? There’s a lot of sci-fi movies like Ex-machina, Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner, that ask what being a...

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Beyond Flowers And Desert, Georgia O’Keeffe’s New York

By Piotr PolichtJanuary 6, 2017

She is definitely best known for her subtle, sometimes almost abstract depictions of flowers and New Mexico landscapes. But there’s also another great chapter in Georgia O’Keeffe’s artistic career that happens to be overseen sometimes – the...

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The 10 Best Artists of 2016

By Piotr PolichtDecember 31, 2016

There’s no need for special introduction: here’s a subjective list of the 10 most interesting artist that were active in last year. Enjoy! Cao Fei Who is China’s most interesting artist right now? Forget Ai Wei...

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How Yves Klein Played with Gold

By Piotr PolichtDecember 15, 2016

Two weeks ago, we showed you some art of Edward Krasiński whose exhibition you can see right now at Tate Liverpool. There’s another great ongoing exhibition there, the one of Yves Klein. Klein was another artist for...

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David Hockney – Old Master Painting on an iPhone

By Piotr PolichtDecember 13, 2016

It’s often hard to grasp what some great artists do when they turn into elderly living legends. Their works from half a century ago being constantly moved from one exhibition to another, all around the world....

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The Best of Lucian Freud – Hotheaded Narcissus and Brilliant Painter

By Piotr PolichtDecember 8, 2016

Lucian Freud was born on this day in 1922. It’s a perfect occasion to take look at some of his greatest paintings. He was conventional in a way. In the late 20th century, he still sticked...

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Mysterious Wise Woman in Paulina Ołowska’s Paintings

By Piotr PolichtDecember 7, 2016

Paulina Ołowska is a Polish artist, primarily a painter, but also working with mediums such as theater. She has a bee in her bonnet about reinforcing overlooked aesthetics, but not solely for aesthetic purposes. Ołowska is...

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Juice Bar, Gym and Human Extinction: Welcome to the DIS World

By Piotr PolichtDecember 1, 2016

New York-based DIS collective works with popular culture, music, and fashion as much as with art. But what they do isn’t always easy to categorize. For example, they run a stock photography platform called DISimages. They...