Like many of the countries colonized by the Spanish during the 1400s and 1500s, Puerto Rico has had a rich artistic culture. Spanish culture overran the native Taino culture, and established an artist ...
Read MoreDuring the school year, art educators spend so much time and energy on lesson planning and student projects that their own artistic practice and inspiration often falls by the wayside. For art educato ...
Read MoreOut of nine children, Ellen Day Hale was the only daughter of the noted orator and author Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909). She came from a family filled with notable figures. Her great ...
Read MoreArt history is full of examples of the cultural preoccupation with the use of written language within the visual arts field—from illustrated scrolls of ancient Egypt to the Pop Art obsession wit ...
Read MoreLike the German Renaissance, the Swiss Renaissance witnessed the flourishing of all the graphic arts, which included woodcut, engraving, etching, and drawing. One of the rich characteristics of German ...
Read MoreAnni Albers is notable as one of the class of Bauhaus fiber artists who helped elevate weaving and other fiber disciplines to the status of fine art in Western art. After moving to the United States, ...
Read MoreNay, who was forbidden by the Nazis to paint or even buy art supplies after 1937, painted abstractions secretly in a French sculptor’s cellar while serving as a cartographer in the German army i ...
Read MoreStarting in the middle of the 1800s, women were encouraged to pursue photography as an art form because it could be learned at home, and women would not have to risk seeing a nude model at art academi ...
Read MoreIt’s high time we celebrate the art of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. She is considered by most art historians to have been the first “press photographer,” photographing fam ...
Read MoreDifferentiated instruction provides multiple options for students to take in information and make sense of ideas. Differentiated instruction requires teachers to be flexible in their approach to teach ...
Read MoreGeorge Rickey evolved from a painter with a love of history, to a kinetic artist who transformed stainless steel into lyrical, mesmerizing, precisely calibrated moving sculptures. Kinetic sculpture be ...
Read MoreConrad Marca-Relli was part of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionism, along with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His artistic vision, however, was uniquely apart from eit ...
Read MoreAlthough little is known about her upbringing or training, Peeters was one of a growing number of women artists who were widely acclaimed as professional artists. She was also a pioneer in the relativ ...
Read MoreStarting in the late 1800s, posters began to be designed by fine artists, and what ensued what has been called the Poster Renaissance. After World War II, Swiss artists developed the International Typ ...
Read MoreMy gem of the month for June is a fantastic printmaker from Japan, Ryōhei Tanaka. If you ever want to teach a lesson about use of line to depict nature, this artist fills the bill for imagery. His ama ...
Read MoreRichard Long has been a committed environmental artist since Land Art had its beginnings in the 1960s. His works are thoughtful, beautifully arranged, and elegantly simple compositions that reflect hi ...
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