Contemporarypaintings
Art, images, and culture after the algorithm.
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A Different Kind of Post
Contemporary Paintings has always been about other people's work. The artists I follow obsessively. The paintings that stop me mid-scroll.
So why do I spend so much time looking at what other people make? I'...
5 Painters You Didn’t Know You Needed
Some painters arrive loudly, already framed by institutions and history. Others work more quietly, building bodies of work that stay with you once you’ve seen them, even if their names aren’t everywhere yet. This list brings together ten pa...
Technique and Vision
The Collapse of Authority
Every generation dismantles the institutions it no longer trusts. Art academies once guided artists: teaching technique, shaping taste, and defining who mattered. They were hierarchical and often wrong, but th...
Why 2026 Might Be the Year of Slow Looking
At some point, images stopped asking for time.
Ivan Pokidyshev, Serenity, 2023. Oil on canvas, 50 × 80 cm.
Artificial intelligence did not arrive as a rupture. There was no clear before and after. Images simply became faster, smoother, an...
On Taste and the Visual Arts
Taste. A word so small it fits on the tip of the tongue, yet so impossible to pin down that it slips through the fingers of philosophers and critics alike. We love to think of categories as neat boxes. Plumbing works if the water runs, surg...
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