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Emotionalism : When art vibrates before it is seen

Dali Ka-DKLÉE, fondatrice du mouvement Émotionnalisme, une démarche artistique où l’émotion devient matière première de la création contemporaine.

What if the next artistic revolution wasn’t about shock or concept—but pure emotion?
From the city of Caen, artist Dali Ka-DKLÉE launches a bold and sincere movement: Emotionalism. A living, visceral aesthetic that challenges the codes of contemporary art.

🔍 A full feature in the latest issue of ART MAG.

Dali Ka-DKLEE – Artist

An Art Born from the Need to Feel Before Understanding

In an era saturated with ideas and theory, Emotionalism calls for a return to the senses. Creation begins not with intellectual justification, but with a shiver, a glance, a moment.
Dali Ka-DKLÉE speaks of “heart-based intelligence”—a compass that guides her every artistic gesture.

Arthur Rimbaud

One Artist, One Pulse, One Vision Across Mediums

Photographer, visual poet, performer, illustrator… Dali Ka-DKLÉE follows a single rule across disciplines: emotional sincerity.
Her work is raw, luminous, immediate—and yet deeply meaningful.

🖋️ “Everything is connected, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, from the invisible to the visible.”

Art as a Resonating Space

From painting to poetry, digital art to sculpture, Emotionalism is transdisciplinary by nature. Each artwork becomes a shared emotional space, inviting the viewer to feel, not just to see.

🎨 Though outside of institutional circuits, Emotionalism has already earned several distinctions—proof that true artistic depth often grows outside the spotlight.

Frida kahlo

Why Emotionalism Matters Today

Because it speaks to something essential: the need to feel, not just think.
Because it reminds us that art’s deepest power is not always in provocation, but in its ability to echo our inner lives.

💡 Inside ART MAG Issue #27:

  • An exclusive look into Dali Ka-DKLÉE’s world

🛒 Available now on the website
📖 A must-read for anyone seeking authenticity in contemporary art

Pour lire la suite, téléchargez ART MAG N°27
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News

Albert Maignan at the Musée de Picardie : A Must-See Exhibition in Amiens

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The Musée de Picardie in Amiens is hosting an exceptional exhibition dedicated to Albert Maignan, a key figure of the Belle Époque who had long faded from public memory. A cultural event not to be missed.

Pour lire la suite, téléchargez Art Mag n°25
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Painting

Anna Coccia: Painting to Survive, Creating to Be Reborn

Anna Coccia

What if art sometimes emerged from chaos ?

In 2018, Anna Coccia had no intention of becoming an artist. She wasn’t looking for it. Nothing pointed her in that direction. And yet… In just a few years, this self-taught painter has made her mark in Rome, Tokyo, and New York with a body of work that is raw, poetic, and deeply moving.

A pervasive blue, a sincere and instinctive painting style, free from conventions. Anna Coccia doesn’t paint to please. She paints to survive.

Burnout as a starting point

She worked in communications. A fast-paced, high-performing executive. Until one day, her body gave out. Burnout. Collapse. Silence.
But in that silence, something sparked. A piece of cardboard. Some paint. A breath.
Nothing was planned. Just urgency. A visceral need to let the chaos inside spill out in color.

“I painted because I couldn’t speak anymore.”

A painting style that is free, sincere, and profoundly human

What strikes you in Anna’s paintings is the complete lack of strategy. No formal training. No method. Just pure emotional force.
The forms are blurred, the gestures sweeping, the colors organic. Blue dominates, like a lifeline.

And yet, something universal emerges. A language that resonates without needing to be explained.

From cardboard to Tokyo : a meteoric rise

  • How did her work make its way into galleries in Florence, Chicago, and Brussels ?
  • What ties does she weave between personal creation and social commitment ?
  • Why have over 400 of her paintings sold without a single outreach effort ?

📖 Dive into the full portrait of Anna Coccia in the latest issue of ART MAG.
🛒 Available now at magazine-art-mag.com

✨ A rare artist. A true story. A powerful aesthetic experience.
💙 To discover, to feel… and to follow.

Pour lire la suite, téléchargez ART MAG N°27
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Drawing

LDM Manga: Self-Taught Artist Laure De Maestri Redefines Visual Art Between Lorraine and Japan

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A Unique Style Blending Manga, Realism, and Raw Emotion

Portrait of Laure De Maestri

In the vibrant world of contemporary visual art, one French artist stands out for the honesty of her approach and the diversity of her creations. Laure De Maestri, better known by her artist name LDM Manga, is a self-taught illustrator from Lorraine. Passionate about drawing and deeply inspired by Japanese culture, she combines classical techniques with manga-inspired storytelling to create a deeply personal artistic language.

Her works ? A delicate balance of realistic portraits, dreamlike characters, and emotion on edge—each piece telling its own silent, powerful story.

A Vocation Born in a Quiet Atelier in Lorraine

It all began in Creutzwald, a small town in eastern France. As a child, Laure discovered painting through her grandfather’s old art case—an heirloom that ignited a lifelong flame. Without formal training, she dedicated herself to hours of practice and self-study, shaping her style with remarkable persistence.

“I taught myself by drawing every day. Art became my escape—my personal freedom,” she says.

From Colmar to Paris: The Rise of a Unique Voice

LDM Manga’s career took a decisive turn in 2021 during an art convention in Colmar, where her work was showcased to the public for the first time. The positive response empowered her to pursue more exhibitions, and she now presents her creations regularly, including at renowned galleries in Paris.

What captivates the audience? A powerful visual identity, rich cultural references, and a raw, expressive energy that resonates beyond the canvas.

Discover the Full Story in Print – Now in ART MAG

In the latest edition of ART MAG, explore an exclusive interview with Laure De Maestri, where she opens up about:

  • Her creative process, step by step
  • Her influences, from Dali and Klimt to Van Gogh and Yana Toboso
  • Upcoming artistic projects and collaborations
  • Her vision of art as a tool for connection and transmission

👉 Available now on magazine-art-mag.com

🔖 Are you passionate about visual storytelling, emerging artists, illustration, or manga culture? This portrait was made for you.

Pour lire la suite, téléchargez ART MAG n°26
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Painting

The Breath of Time: Dannie Launay’s Vibrant Return to Abstraction

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The Breath of Time in Dannie Launay’s Work

With her new series of semi-abstract paintings, Dannie Launay marks a powerful return to her original visual language. Titled The Breath of Time, this body of work explores themes of transition, memory, and cosmic energy with a gesture that is both controlled and deeply expressive.

At a time when the contemporary art market seems to be rediscovering the virtues of figurative painting, Dannie Launay boldly moves in the opposite direction. With heartfelt sincerity, she returns to a sensitive abstraction, far from effect-seeking, rooted instead in breath and resonance.

A Return to Abstraction: Continuity or Renewal?

“What I used to do was abstraction,” the artist confides. “And I’m returning to it with total joy.”
This return is not a denial, but rather a reaffirmation—a continuity of an inner voice that probes the metamorphoses of form, the trembling of matter, the invisible forces shaping the visible.

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Three Core Themes : Space-Time, Melting Snow, Cosmos

In The Breath of Time, three powerful themes emerge across Dannie Launay’s latest canvases:

  • Space-time : a visual meditation on time beyond clocks or chronology.
  • Melting snow : a metaphor for disappearance and transformation.
  • The cosmos : a field of intuitive energies, silence, and suspension.

These elements are not depicted literally. They are felt—expressed through floating forms, fused tones, and a tactile surface that seems to breathe. Each painting feels like a condensation of emotions, a suspended moment, a fragment of atmosphere.

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A Painting of Stillness and Suggestion

Launay’s brushstroke is economical yet charged. She avoids spectacle and instead embraces a painting of stillness, of listening and suggestion. Her images invite us to dwell within them, not dominate them.

The Breath of Time: An Abstraction that Lives and Breathes

The unifying thread throughout this series is time—not measured time, but experienced time. Time of the body, of memory, of passage. With The Breath of Time, Dannie Launay reminds us that abstraction is not a style, but a way of inhabiting reality differently.

Through her canvases, she transforms time into pictorial substance, emptiness into presence, and painting into a space where the world still breathes.

Why Follow Dannie Launay Now?

  • She brings a renewed and emotionally resonant abstraction to contemporary painting.
  • She is one of the emerging French female artists whose work blends coherence with authenticity.
  • The Breath of Time resonates with our deepest contemporary concerns—time, transformation, and remembrance.

In a Few Words :

Dannie Launay doesn’t paint the world as it appears—but as it breathes. With The Breath of Time, she invites us to slow down, feel deeply, and be present.

🔖 À lire aussi :  

  • Dannie launay le souffle du temps✨📰 ART MAG#26
  • Dannie launay ✨📰 ART MAG#17
Pour lire la suite, téléchargez ART MAG n°26
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News

Artemisia Gentileschi at the Musée Jacquemart-André: A Must-See Exhibition

tableau Artemisia Gentileschi, Yaël et Siséra, 1620, Huile sur toile, 93 x 128 cm
Nicolas Heron

A major retrospective celebrating a leading female figure of the Baroque era

From March 19 to August 3, 2025, the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris presents a landmark exhibition: “Artemisia. Heroine of Art”, entirely dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the first women in history to earn a living through her art.