Artist Birthday: Chris (DAZE) Ellis
Chris (DAZE) Ellis was part of the earliest group of American street artists to successfully transition to a career painting on canvas. He is also part of the generation of street artists who help ...
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Art for National Fig Week: Luis Meléndez
Monday, November 3, 2025 | Karl ColeNovember 1-7 is National Fig Week, and we celebrate with Baroque art! Just as very different painting styles co-existed in late Baroque France – the Rococo which catered to the nobility, and ...
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Artist Birthday: Jürgen Mayer
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | Karl ColeJürgen Mayer is part of a generation of young 21st century architect/designers who create forms that respect the surrounding environment, as well as paying tribute to the history of the locale. ...
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Artist Birthday: James Siena
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | Karl ColeJames Siena is renowned for his intricate, circuit board-like geometric abstractions. Like many contemporary abstractionists, Siena follows a highly personal process in his colorful abstractions. ...
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Artist Birthday: Homer Dodge Martin
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | Karl ColeIn the mid- to late-1800s, there many American artists like Homer Dodge Martin who adapted the romantic element of Hudson River School painting, with the contemporary interest in misty atmosphere ...
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A Fall Landscape: Lan Ying
Monday, October 27, 2025 | Karl ColeThis past weekend we laid to rest my dear father-in-law. He was always a big fan of the color changes to the trees in the fall in New England, which is peaking right about now. I am dedicating this we ...
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Artist Birthday Giovanna Fratellini
Monday, October 27, 2025 | Karl ColeBy the late 1600s, there were many women artists who became professional artists with successful careers. Unlike most women artists, Giovanna Fratellini was trained by a professional artist who was no ...
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National Food Day: Claes Oldenburg
Friday, October 24, 2025 | Karl ColeOne artist who undoubtedly symbolizes the Pop Art movement’s glorification of American culture by far the most in his subjects of everyday foods was Claes Oldenburg. His first installation/perfo ...
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Artist Birthday: Sekino Junichirō
Thursday, October 23, 2025 | Karl ColeSekino Junichirō was a woodblock printmaker in the sōsaku hanga movement, in which the artists draws the subject, cuts the woodblock, and prints the image themselves. These artists often incorpora ...
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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | Karl ColeLarry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...
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National Apple Day: Art by Yokoi Tomoe
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | Karl ColeThere are about 7000 varieties of apple in the world. Apples have been a favorite element of still life since still life became an accepted stand-alone subject matter in Western art. The unique pr ...
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An October Gem: John La Farge
Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl ColeJohn La Farge is a fascinating and multi-faceted artist in late 1800s American art. Trained in painting, he branched out into mural painting, and particularly stained glass. In fact, La Farge received ...
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Artist Birthday: Hugh Bolton Jones
Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl ColeHugh Bolton Jones was one of the many American artists whose painting was influenced by the French Realist Barbizon school in the late 1800s. He enthusiastically embraced the technique of en plein ...
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Artist Birthday: Otto Müller
Thursday, October 16, 2025 | Karl ColeOtto Müller was a German Expressionist artist, member of the artists’ group Die Brücke, and best known for his brilliant palette and scenes of bathers. His type of Expressionism le ...
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Artist Birthday: Matsuzaki Kenichi
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | Karl ColeKenichi Matsuzaki exemplifies the richness of the contemporary ceramic art of Japan. His rough surface stoneware works pay tribute to the centuries old traditions of Japanese ceramics, one of the ...
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Artist Birthday: William Larson
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | Karl ColePhotographer William Larson was a pioneer of many unique experiments in his art form. These included printing photos on unusual materials, experimenting with photography through fax machines, and ...
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