Artmajeur is an online
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...
based in
Montpellier
Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...
, France and founded in 2000. It allows
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
s to present original paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographies, and prints.
History
Artmajeur was founded in 2000 by Samuel Charmetant and Yann Sarazin, then computer sciences students in
University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier () is a public university, public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous opera ...
. The platform maintains an offline presence in the form of a quarterly Art Magazine, and by participating to international art fairs.
In 2015, Artmajeur launched a virtual gallery in a 3D visualization of the Place Vendôme (Paris).
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Artmajeur promoted #ArtistSupportPledge campaign on social media.
In 2021, Samuel Charmetant was appointed to the rank of Knight of
Ordre national du Mérite (France)
A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces. It originated in the late 14th century as a pairing of dance tunes; and grew in scope so that by the early 17th century it comprised up to f ...
for founding the platform.
Artmajeur presents artists from 200 countries, and is available in several languages, including Chinese and Russian.
Artists
The platform presents emerging and well-known artists,
including:
*
Shepart Fairey (Obey),
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí ( ; ; ), was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, ...
,
Takashi Murakami
is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between High art, high and low arts. His wo ...
,
Reginald Gray,
David Gerstein
David Gerstein (born February 6, 1974) is an American comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many Disney comics stories, usually featuring ...
, Leonid Afremov, Jean Humbert Salvoldeli.
See also
Art market
The art market is the marketplace of buyers and sellers trading commodities, services, and works of art.
The art market follows an economic model that considers more than supply and demand; it is a market where art is bought and sold for values ...
Contemporary art gallery
A contemporary art gallery is normally a commercial art gallery operated by an art dealer which specializes in displaying for sale contemporary art, usually new works of art by living artists. This approach has been called the "Castelli Method ...
E-commerce
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References
External links
{{Commons
Artmajeur website (en)
Contemporary art
Contemporary art galleries
A contemporary art gallery is normally a commercial art gallery operated by an art dealer which specializes in displaying for sale contemporary art, usually new works of art by living artists. This approach has been called the "Castelli Meth ...