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Pattern and Decoration: Joyce Kozloff

Monday, January 11, 2010 | Karl Cole

In one of my weekly (geekly?) “holy cow!” epiphany moments, I came across this gorgeous specimen from the Brooklyn Museum of Art by Joyce Kozloff. Not only do I love the work of Kozloff be ...

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Mesoamerica-North American Connection: Mississippian Culture

Monday, January 4, 2010 | Karl Cole

I just finished my part of work on the revision of our studio book about clay and so I thought I would show you a ceramic artwork this week. As an art historian, I enjoy making connections between cul ...

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Utagawa Hiroshige Winter Wonderland

Monday, December 28, 2009 | Karl Cole

Since we’re in the midst of “The Holidays,” I thought I would show you all a nice snow scene (as if we haven’t had enough so far this month on the East Coast). Now, I’m t ...

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Canadian Photographer: William McFarlane Notman

Monday, December 21, 2009 | Karl Cole

I’m returning to a Canadian artist again this week because this work reminds me of two things I think we tend to forget: 1) Photography was an art form that evolved in Canada the same as it did ...

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Mayan Textiles

Monday, December 14, 2009 | Karl Cole

I am always fascinated when I stop to think about indigenous cultures that have flourished culturally for many, many centuries. True, we in the West consider the ancient Greek and Roman cultures as ou ...

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Canadian Sculptor Jacqueline Winsor

Monday, December 7, 2009 | Karl Cole

Among the many new museum collections we are continually adding to our digital image archive, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, NY is one of my favorites. What a wonderful collection of contem ...

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Mayan Honduras: Copán Monument

Monday, November 30, 2009 | Karl Cole

We in the Western Hemisphere don’t have to look very far to find a civilization that rivals that of ancient Greece and Rome. The Maya in Central America thrived for almost 3000 years in Mexico, ...

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Art in Everyday Life: Ancient Greece

Monday, November 23, 2009 | Karl Cole

As I’ve mentioned before, I resist the Western art historical tendency to consider the art of ancient Greece and Rome as the high points of artistic achievement, in a broad view of art around th ...

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Art in Everyday Life: J. Palin Thorley

Monday, November 16, 2009 | Karl Cole

While looking at images for the revision of one of our books, I came across an image of a metal pitcher from the 1930s. It had such clean, modern lines that it could easily be mistaken for a contempor ...

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Northern Renaissance Engraver: Israhel van Meckenem

Monday, November 9, 2009 | Karl Cole

I like showing you works from the Renaissance period in Northern Europe. This is partly because my mother was Swiss and I wrote my master’s thesis about a Swiss Renaissance painter (yes, Switzer ...

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The Japan-North Carolina Connection: Hiroshi Sueyoshi

Monday, November 2, 2009 | Karl Cole

Ceramic traditions vary greatly around the world. In some cultures, the material is considered all-important, while in other cultures, the form or shape is the emphasis. Techniques for production of c ...

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American Pre-Raphaelite: John William Hill

Monday, October 26, 2009 | Karl Cole

I always like to examine artists who are not written about in a major way in art historical publications (maybe because I’m a painter who will NEVER be written about in ANY art history textbook) ...

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"Outsider" Art: James Castle

Monday, October 19, 2009 | Karl Cole

I really don’t know what I think about the term “outsider art.” Wait, of course I know what I think! I always think it’s unfortunate when any art produced outside of the status ...

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Bamboo Artist: Torii Ippo

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | Karl Cole

Okay, so I’m having “holy cow” moments more often these days! I came across this fabulous sculpture while scanning new images from the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC. I never ev ...

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Silhouettes: William James Hubard

Monday, October 5, 2009 | Karl Cole

As I was strolling through the Davis Art Images archives (don’t roll your eyes, a lot of us art historians have museums of images in our head), I happened by chance upon this lovely, delicate po ...

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Korean Folk Art: Minhwa Chaekgado

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | Karl Cole

Every culture in history all over our planet has produced folk art, i.e. art intended for the everyday person, rather than wealthy or noble patrons. Although similar to so-called “primitive&rdqu ...

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Pattern and Decoration: Joyce Kozloff

Mesoamerica-North American Connection: Mississippian Culture

Utagawa Hiroshige Winter Wonderland

Canadian Photographer: William McFarlane Notman

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Canadian Sculptor Jacqueline Winsor

Mayan Honduras: Copán Monument

Art in Everyday Life: Ancient Greece

Art in Everyday Life: J. Palin Thorley

Northern Renaissance Engraver: Israhel van Meckenem

The Japan-North Carolina Connection: Hiroshi Sueyoshi

American Pre-Raphaelite: John William Hill

"Outsider" Art: James Castle

Bamboo Artist: Torii Ippo

Silhouettes: William James Hubard

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