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Women's History Month 2011 II

Monday, March 14, 2011 | Karl Cole

I have always held the belief that there has been no period in history when women did not play significant roles as artists. Traditional western art history texts just failed to mention women who were ...

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Women's History Month 2011 I

Monday, March 7, 2011 | Karl Cole

Let’s kick off Women’s History Month by celebrating women printmakers. I’m a big fan of contemporary printmaking and how artists push the boundaries of the medium, especially since m ...

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African American History Month 2011: Sam Gilliam

Monday, February 28, 2011 | Karl Cole

To close out African American History month, I’d like to explore an aspect of the African American contribution to art that is somewhat sidelined: abstraction. When the term “African Ameri ...

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African American History Month 2011: John Woodrow Wilson

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | Karl Cole

John Woodrow Wilson was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and illustrator. Like many African American artists, he faced the struggles of a Black man in a white-dominated art culture, particularly durin ...

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African American History Month 2011: Michael Richards

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | Karl Cole

The history of African American art is rich in its “cataloging” (for lack of a better term) of the African American experience. This was the aim of the Harlem Renaissance. The depiction of ...

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African American History Month 2011: John Biggers

Monday, February 7, 2011 | Karl Cole

Let’s start off African American History month with one of my favorite artists, John Biggers. The theme for this month in SchoolArts is “Messages,” so let’s examine what Bigger ...

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Process Versus Creation: Roxy Paine

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | Karl Cole

Before we go into African American History Month, I thought I’d throw you all a mind-bender: Are Process and Creation the same thing? Is this a sort of “chicken-and-the-egg” thing? L ...

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Art History Déja Vu? Ancient Egypt

Monday, January 24, 2011 | Karl Cole

Do you ever stop and wonder if there really isn’t anything new in subject matter or style in art? Sometimes I stop and look at what I’m painting and think: “Why bother, landscape&rsq ...

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Art Breaking the Law? William Michael Harnett

Monday, January 17, 2011 | Karl Cole

Having said last week that I’m “not a big fan of realism,” I’ll punish that thought again by showing you a work by a master realist. I just came across this work in passing, an ...

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What Do You Know? Anthony Sisti

Monday, January 10, 2011 | Karl Cole

I’m not usually a big fan of realism, but when I come across an artist with an interesting background, I like to share it with you. Goodness knows one does not hear much about sports figures tra ...

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Pioneer Art Educator: Arthur Wesley Dow

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 | Karl Cole

The late 1800s and early 1900s was an amazingly fertile period in American art. Between the 1870s and 1890s, thousands of American artists went to Europe to study art. This included the likes of ...

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Three Friends of Winter: Yabu Chōsui

Monday, December 27, 2010 | Karl Cole

I’m celebrating the beginning of winter by showing you an image that goes along with the "Looking and Learning" theme for December in our SchoolArts magazine: Stories. I don’t re ...

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Not What You Would Expect! Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill

Monday, December 20, 2010 | Karl Cole

I really don’t usually go Lady Gaga over the International Style of architecture. However, I was recently scanning some Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) buildings into our collection, and was ...

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Venerable Painting School: Kano School

Monday, December 13, 2010 | Karl Cole

In the 21st century, when millionaires get tax breaks and people are judged by the type of car they drive, it’s nice to be able to retreat and look at art with a simpler outlook on human existen ...

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Bauhaus Pioneer: Herbert Bayer

Monday, December 6, 2010 | Karl Cole

I’ve come across this gorgeous work by an artist who should be one of the major features in any textbook concerning not only the history of art, but also of design. Herbert Bayer was a true pion ...

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19th Century Abstraction? Emily Eastman

Monday, November 29, 2010 | Karl Cole

Did you ever suddenly stop one day and ponder a word that is commonly used/over used in art appreciation texts? I just started thinking about the word “abstraction.” We all know that the t ...

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Process Versus Creation: Roxy Paine

Art History Déja Vu? Ancient Egypt

Art Breaking the Law? William Michael Harnett

What Do You Know? Anthony Sisti

Pioneer Art Educator: Arthur Wesley Dow

Three Friends of Winter: Yabu Chōsui

Not What You Would Expect! Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill

Venerable Painting School: Kano School

Bauhaus Pioneer: Herbert Bayer

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