Artist Birthday: Carlo Carrà
Carrà's work reflects the use of the Impressionist palette of pure colors by the Pointillists, while his segmenting of the subject to indicate movement reflects a similar aesthetic concern to b ...
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Black History Month: Woodruff, Lewis, Jennings
Monday, February 10, 2025 | Karl ColeMy celebration of Black History Month continues with three more artists who are very important in the history of art—Hale Woodruff, Norman Lewis, and Wilmer Jennings. They represent the divergen ...
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Artist Birthday: Shimizu Seifu
Monday, February 10, 2025 | Karl ColeThe Chinese had a legend of the brave carp who swam against the current on the Yellow River to mate, and few were courageous enough to swim over the Dragon Gate waterfall. Those that did turned into d ...
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Artist Birthday: Alfredo Jaar
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | Karl ColeInfinite Cell is a combination of mirrors and a single prison cell reflected infinitely. It is an ode to two Italian artists who were imprisoned for their Communist beliefs by the Fascists before Worl ...
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Artist Birthday: Shinsui Itō
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | Karl ColeThe shin hanga movement may have featured Western elements of perspective and more attention to sculptural form which Shinsui incoporated into his work, but he observed compositional aspects of tradit ...
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Black History Month: Herring, Tolliver, Middleton
Monday, February 3, 2025 | Karl ColeI’m kicking off National Black History Month with artists I find fascinating. Their styles are extraordinary, and their names are probably not on the tips of every art historian’s tongue&m ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvar Aalto
Monday, February 3, 2025 | Karl ColeAalto designed all of the furnishings for his buildings. Using native birch, Aalto designed a number of chairs and stools made entirely of bent plywood and laminated wood. He also invented some of the ...
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Artist Birthday: Barnett Newman
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | Karl ColeNewman’s earliest paintings share the organic/biomorphic abstract forms of Rothko’s early works from the 1940s. By 1946, however, his forms began to be more abstract and shed their biomorp ...
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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | Karl ColeOldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). It con ...
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Visualizing Cold in Works of Art
Monday, January 27, 2025 | Karl ColeIt probably does not need saying by now, but the last week has been quite cold in New England. I thought it might be interesting to see how artists visually interpret the idea of “cold.”&n ...
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Artist Birthday: Francis Picabia
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | Karl ColeFrancis Picabia was a standout Cubist painter who avoided the common subject matter of Cubism, still life and portraits, opting for documenting personal experiences and memories. ...
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Jackson Pollock Month
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | Karl ColeThe birthday of New York School painter Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) is January 28th, so I’m going to call January 2025 "Curator's Corner Jackson Pollock Month." I often feel that ...
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Humor in Art Since the 1500s
Monday, January 13, 2025 | Karl ColeNow that winter has set in with a vengeance, I think it is the perfect time to look at some art that can elicit a smile. ...
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Happy New Year 2025: teamLab
Monday, December 30, 2024 | Karl ColeI can’t think of a nicer way to end 2024’s blog posts than with images from the beautiful immersive digital installation, Proliferating Immense Life - A Whole Year per Year, by the Japanes ...
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Editor's Letter: Collaboration
Friday, December 20, 2024 | Frank JuárezTeaching can be a solitary experience, even if your art department has multiple art teachers. The art room becomes an island full of art, materials, and ideas. The reality is that this does not have t ...
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Friday, December 20, 2024 | Linda SchoberAs educators, we teach skills that are valuable in the classroom as well as skills that can be carried into students’ everyday lives. Kindness and collaboration are crucial skills in all aspects ...
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