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Color for a Winter Cheer Up: Piero Dorazio

Monday, January 20, 2014 | Karl Cole

What better way to enhance the long winter chill than to look at COLOR! ...

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New Year New Art: Emily and Robb Sandagata

Friday, January 10, 2014 | Karl Cole

To start off the new year, I present to you two artists who we are now featured at the Davis Art Gallery in a dual exhibition entitled Unearthed: Emily and Robb Sandagata. Watch them talk about their ...

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Fantasy Christmas Present: Edward Savage

Monday, December 23, 2013 | Karl Cole

I love miniatures from early American art! I dearly want a miniature of myself hanging from my loved one’s keychain as a Christmas present! However, miniature artists are few and far betwee ...

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Fantasy Christmas Present: Steven Ford and David Forlano

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | Karl Cole

Although I don’t wear a lot of jewelry other than my wedding ring, I’ve always been fascinated with jewelry design. I’m pretty sure that jewelry was one of the few art forms that did ...

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Fantasy Christmas Present: Paul Revere Pottery

Monday, December 9, 2013 | Karl Cole

Since I am not expecting to see a new car with a red bow on top of it for a Christmas present, I thought I would use the month of December to present gifts that I would absolutely LOVE to get (but nev ...

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An Ode to "Swiss"

Monday, November 18, 2013 | Karl Cole

I just returned from a week in Switzerland to visit family. Walking through their churches—stripped of all sculpture, painting, and Biblical stained glass because of the Reformation’s frow ...

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Impressionist Sculpture? Medardo Rosso

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | Karl Cole

Ever think sculpture when you think Impressionism? Sculpture gets a bad representation in art history books during the 1800s, unless you want to look at endless (yawn) “classically&rdq ...

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Mola: Kuna People Textiles

Monday, October 21, 2013 | Karl Cole

Many years ago I was fortunate enough to go to an exhibit of Kuna Mola textile art in Chicago. It blew my mind, because it is very complex. And yet, it is the common textile art form of the Kuna, ...

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Holy Cats!

Monday, October 14, 2013 | Karl Cole

I’m always interested in how important of a role domesticated animals have played in the history of art, particularly in the sphere of funerary art. They almost always take on a protective or st ...

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Autumn: Sanford Robinson Gifford

Thursday, October 3, 2013 | Karl Cole

Being a painter who loves to paint landscapes, my inclination when summer turns into fall is to show a painting, naturally. And, in my mind, no artists captured Autumn better than the artists of the H ...

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Calligraphy/Typeface as Abstraction

Monday, September 23, 2013 | Karl Cole

Abstraction is defined as the reduction of form to simple (geometric, or organic) or decorative (a word I hate) shapes. I’ve blogged briefly about calligraphy in the past, but I rarely get a cha ...

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Commemorating Qi Baishi

Monday, September 16, 2013 | Karl Cole

Chinese painting, drawing, and graphic arts of the 20th and 21st centuries is an amazing combination of traditional and bold contemporary statements. Today I honor Qi Baishi, who died on this date in ...

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Beauty in Syria and Egypt: Blown Glass

Monday, August 26, 2013 | Karl Cole

Considering the unfortunate circumstances in Syria and Egypt presently, I thought I would present some art from that region to show what beautiful things have come out of Syria and Egypt. ...

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Pop Art, Again! Patrick Caulfield

Monday, August 19, 2013 | Karl Cole

While American art was “discovering” abstraction in the years immediately following World War II (1939–1945), Britain was exploring new territory. Their experience with abstraction h ...

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Art at the Beach: Tom Wesselmann

Monday, August 12, 2013 | Karl Cole

This week I present you with one of the more witty aspects of Pop Art. Pop Art parodied American culture in all of its aspects. Naturally, beach culture and tanning would be one of them. And naturally ...

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Fashion and Society: 1700s France

Monday, August 5, 2013 | Karl Cole

I’ve talked about fashion relating to politics. This entry will relate to society at the time of one of the most outlandish periods in fashion: France in the 1750s through 1780s during the reign ...

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Color for a Winter Cheer Up: Piero Dorazio

New Year New Art: Emily and Robb Sandagata

Fantasy Christmas Present: Edward Savage

Fantasy Christmas Present: Steven Ford and David Forlano

Fantasy Christmas Present: Paul Revere Pottery

An Ode to "Swiss"

Impressionist Sculpture? Medardo Rosso

Mola: Kuna People Textiles

Holy Cats!

Autumn: Sanford Robinson Gifford

Calligraphy/Typeface as Abstraction

Commemorating Qi Baishi

Beauty in Syria and Egypt: Blown Glass

Pop Art, Again! Patrick Caulfield

Art at the Beach: Tom Wesselmann

Fashion and Society: 1700s France

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