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 lon ...
based in
Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) 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 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 an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
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 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)
The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's estab ...
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) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...
,
Takashi Murakami,
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
Contemporary art gallery
E-commerce
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References
External links
{{Commons
Artmajeur website (en)
Contemporary art
Contemporary art galleries