Roni Horn’s work consistently generates uncertainty to thwart closure. Important across her oeuvre is her longstanding interest to the protean nature of identity, meaning, and perception, as wel ...
Read ArticleAlma Woodsey Thomas was a pioneering African American abstract painter and art educator. Any art historian who is a nut about color as I am certainly knows her work! ...
Read ArticleBesides being conversant in a number of modernism movements in the first half of the 1900s, Gabor Peterdi was very influential in exploring printmaking processes in modernist takes on landscape. &n ...
Read ArticleJean Arp was truly an artist who was in the right place at the right time when it came to helping discover the Dada art movement during World War I (1914-1918). His truly imaginative and unique works ...
Read ArticleRudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl. ...
Read ArticleThis is certainly one of the most French-Impression-like Theodore Robinson paintings that I can show you. He certainly mastered Monet’s “broken color” technique. No wonder he’s ...
Read ArticleI would use any excuse to show you the paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack, so I’ll go by his name. If you will pardon my pun, his paintings are very august. I have never been able to decide if I ...
Read ArticleWhat with the warm weather we experienced recently, the steaminess put me in mind of how works of art can reflect warmth or coolness, or in terms of the latest weather: Heat. Just look at this fiery l ...
Read ArticleJohn Bradley Walker Storrs is an example of an American artist who, after exposed to European modernism at the dawn of World War I, he never looked back to realism. He ultimately developed a Cubist ab ...
Read ArticleKisses for National Kissing Day in a incredibly ingenious and unique work by the fabulous Conceptual artist Janine Antoni. Antoni is known for her unusual processes, using her body as both a tool and ...
Read ArticleMira Schendel was a painter, sculptor and poet. Her pensive, delicate works (particularly on paper), along with those of her contemporary Brazilian artists Lygia Clark (1920-1988) and Helio Oiticica ( ...
Read ArticleLike the Abstract Expressionists, many other American artists were inspired by European modernist movements that occurred before World War II. Jean Follett was an early abstractionist who was influenc ...
Read ArticleArturo Herrera’s work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious—often inter ...
Read ArticleThe paintings, sculptures and installations of Frank Stella have defied a single stylistic designation throughout his career. He among the many artists who established their mature artistic vision in ...
Read ArticleBeauty Attack Monday 11th of May is also the birthday of major Op Art artist Yaacov Agam (France, born 1928 Palestine [present day Israel]). Agam along with Julio le Parc (born 1928 Argentina) and Jes ...
Read ArticleDuring the turbulent post-World War II (1939-1945) years, it is no surprise that art movements arose – as they did after World War I (1914-1918) – that questioned the validity of entrenche ...
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